Just use that big organ between your ears that occupies the space in your skull. I'm sure you can figure it out, humans are rather intelligent.
So you're saying that there's no time lag between the time that the state notices a security threat and calls up the militia, and the time when the enemy controls the entire state economy and all borders, thus making it impossible to get a gun?
You're making faulty assumptions that it will be easy to obtain a gun should things hit a level to which calling up the militia is necessary. There may be lag, there may not be lag. Who knows? If you're going to do something, if you'd fight for your State, then you need to be prepared and have the tools on hand for that. Thinking that you can just run out and get something that day isn't a guarantee that you can.
But this bill doesn't call for registration for people who can't hit the broad side of a barn. Just for people who don't own a gun.
Because those without the guns have demonstrated a willingness to put aside duty. You want to find those people and not even have them in the equation to start with. They are nothing more than a loss term.
This assumes, of course, that there aren't also plenty of highly motivated sellers looking to get out of militia duty.
And you're assuming there will be. But again, it's a preparation thing. You're arguing an absurd position in that if the **** hits the fan you'll have all means necessary to buy the brooms and mops to clean it up. That's not a guarantee. Thus if you're going to commit to defense of the State via militia participation, you need to have the tools for that before someone else starts shooting at you.
And again, this makes the faulty assumption that everyone with a gun will fight for them, and no one without a gun will not.
While all with a gun may not fight, those without guns can not fight.
At last we've come to your actual motive, so can we just dispense with the bull**** about militias?
Jesus tap dancing Christ on a pogo stick. Does anything stick in your brain? I said these aren't my arguments, these are the arguments put forth by those pushing the bill. I've already said this ain't my argument. I didn't write the bill, and I don't support the bill. Try to remember that for more than 3 seconds. Read, listen, comprehend; that's all I'm asking and that's all within the abilities of humans.
I completely support registering specific guns...the type of gun, the serial number, the name/address of the owner, etc. This can help trace the gun if it's ever used in a crime. I don't support some kind of government registry for PEOPLE who own guns though.
But you just did. Name/address of owners etc, that's registration. Wow...it only took 1 sentence for you to contradict yourself. As I said, if you want to collect information about my person, property, or papers you're going to have to have due cause. It's a right of the individual, and no matter how much you'd wish to infringe upon the rights; you cannot without engaging in treason and tyranny.