Glen Contrarian
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I know they are not the same. Again:
I know you probably shudder at the thought of registration, but that's the single best tool for gun control - that by itself is a huge step in controlling gun violence. Why? Because when all guns are registered, then that makes it MUCH easier to find out who's smuggling guns and who's selling guns under the table and especially who's buying guns in gun-friendly states and selling them elsewhere. Time and again studies have shown that many - and often most - of the firearms used in violent crimes in, say, Chicago were purchased in gun-friendly areas...which is precisely what leads to "gun-free zones" being a joke. One can't have a gun-free zone if there is no way to keep others from buying guns from gun-friendly areas and selling them there under the table.
And registration would stop most of that.
But y'all will never agree to it, no matter how many innocent lives would be saved each year, all because y'all have been brainwashed to think "shall not be infringed" while completely ignoring the real reason the preparatory phrase of the 2A was included. Armed militias are no longer essential to the security of the state...and so that obviates the rest of the 2A. NO, I don't want all guns banned - very few people who grow up in the boonies like I did would ever think that way - but the time has long since passed that the 2A can be used as an excuse for almost anyone to have whatever kind of firearm that he wants - as the 58 dead and 500+ wounded in Las Vegas by ONE MAN all found out.
Again, registration would go a LONG way to stopping that.
And that goes back to the subject - registration is the single most important part of gun control - the rest is just gravy, as it were.