Teen girl in Columbus killed by police

[Belsnickel]

(04-30-2021, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: All you have done is bluster about all the data and research you have that somehow proves gun registration is "bad policy" yet you refuse to actually share any of it with us.

I said the evidence isn't there, not that the contrary evidence exists.

(04-30-2021, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that registration laws would not have an effect on the wide open sale of guns to anyone at anytime including convicted felons and mentally ill is just refusing to to pull their heads out of the sand.  The size of a car has nothing to do with how registration works to control the trafficking of stolen cars.  The fact that cars have wheels and guns don't does not make the policy effects a "false equivalency".  If that is how you think it works then you don't have a clue what a "false equivalency" argument really is.

When you talk about the effectiveness of registration in recovering stolen cars it absolutely is a false equivalency because registration is not the only factor that makes vehicles easier to recover than firearms. Size of them plays a role in that.

(04-30-2021, 05:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: EXACTLY!!!

Now you finally get it.  

Without gun registration laws they can't tell who actually owns the weapon.  And that means they can't enforce the laws that are already in place to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons.

(04-30-2021, 05:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Don't know about that.  Here in Tennessee if a person is banned from owning weapons then they can't have a weapon found in their own house.  Or if they are alone in a car with a weapon they can be charged.  But they can't be charged for simply being in the same vehicle or residence with a gun.

There are places where, say, a felon is riding as a passenger in a vehicle and a gun is found, unless that gun is strapped to another individual, then that felon can be charged. Why would that policy not be preferable than one that would be much less feasible to implement and enforce?