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The crime of having an unregistered thing.
How ?
The crime of having an unregistered thing.
Help prevent.
Gun related crimes...if your gun is registered to you on a national database and if you use it, the bullets can be traced back to you and your gun.
You might think twice about doing the crime.
The problem is that most people will not comply with registration, especially not those that would be inclined to use a gun in the process of a crime.
They would given stiff enough penalties for non-registration
Remember that all guns in the USA (bar perhaps some home made guns) were legally owned at one time.
Help prevent.
Gun related crimes...if your gun is registered to you on a national database and if you use it, the bullets can be traced back to you and your gun.
You might think twice about doing the crime.
Help prevent.
Gun related crimes...if your gun is registered to you on a national database and if you use it, the bullets can be traced back to you and your gun.
You might think twice about doing the crime.
They would given stiff enough penalties for non-registration
Remember that all guns in the USA (bar perhaps some home made guns) were legally owned at one time.
Ummmm
No.
If registration were such a deterant the Vegas shooter would not have shot.
So, try again.
What does registration prevent?
Let's talk about your car. You need a driver's license to operate your car. What's more, the car has to be registered with a state issued license plate.
Why all the precautions? Because cars in the hands of the wrong driver are a threat to honest, working folk. You don't want to issue a drivers license to people who can't control a car, mentally ill people, etc.
So let's do the same with guns as we do with cars.
Moreover, let's combine the two processes. When you get your driver's license, you can get a gun license at the same time if you choose. When you register your car, you register your guns.
You won't even notice the extra paperwork because you'll be renewing and registering at the same time your doing it for your car.
There's a lot less mass killings done with vehicles than guns so drivers licenses and vehicle registration work.
Gun deaths
How does registering a gun prevent a death?
It reduces straw sales to criminals
And guns are gotten elsewhere.
The registered gun... Why is that now incapable of killing?
I never said it was a perfect system.....just a better one
So registered guns are still capable of being used for violence.
Yes but registration forms a barrier to the criminal getting one.
Like a wall is a barrier to an illegal immigrant
Not perfect......just better
This is just my opinion, but gun advocates seem to me, much like pro-choice advocates.
They oppose any restrictions whatsoever. Even sensible ones.
Believing that if you give the opposition an inch, they will try to take a mile.
And, sadly, I believe they are right.
Face it folks. We, as well as all future generations, are yoked by a constitution written over 200 years ago by men, from a society who mostly possessed, and thought in terms of, single shot, black powder pistols and rifles and the freedom to possess them.
Now, if we could go back in time and tell them about automatic weapons and other advances in the future of weaponry, things might have been different. But we can't and we didn't.
Now, it's way too late. These advanced weapons are here and they are here to stay. And if some whack-job is able to get his hands on one, I want to be able to do the same to protect myself and family from them. Can't put toothpaste back in the tube. All the talk about confiscation, regulation, or whatever, is just wasted breath.
I do wish it had been different. I would gladly forego my passion for deer hunting if it would just save one child. But it's not different. We have to play the cards we are dealt. As long as some punk-ass-gangster has a gun, so will I.
Adapt and improvise.
Yes but registration forms a barrier to the criminal getting one.
Like a wall is a barrier to an illegal immigrant
Not perfect......just better
No doubt at all the Supreme Court sanctifies owning guns.
The wall now being built is designed to stop illegal people from getting in to damage this country.
what are sensible restrictions in my view
1) criminalizing any action that objectively harms innocents or has very likely chance of harming innocents (such as firing a centerfire rifle in a city park or urban area outdoors)
2) preventing the possession of firearms in certain areas-such as prisons, courtrooms, of governmental buildings
3) preventing certain groups of people from buying or carrying firearms such as minors, violent felons and those adjudicated mentally incompetent.
4) restricting certain weapons from hunting, such as hunting deer with a 22 rimfire or hunting them with fully automatic weapons.
Those are common sense gun laws that I doubt less than 1% oppose. What are your definitions?
How about, the second amendment protects my rights to own guns and I will and you can just lump it. I haven't used a gun in a crime of any kind. I've not robbed anyone, killed anyone, assualted anyone, raped anyone nor any other crime I have committed. So what is your reasoning for limiting my gun ownership?
Having full-blown shootouts in the 21st century between so-called "good guys" is not common sense.
Friend of slain stuntwoman Cheryl Sanders skeptical of ex's story
The new normal seems to be settling disputes with guns. Woo hoo...
How is that "common sense"?
Having full-blown shootouts in the 21st century between so-called "good guys" is not common sense.
Friend of slain stuntwoman Cheryl Sanders skeptical of ex's story
The new normal seems to be settling disputes with guns. Woo hoo...
How is that "common sense"?