03-13-2018, 01:50 PM
(03-13-2018, 01:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes it will make it much more difficult to obtain a weapon because all sales will only be allowed to people who can register a gun. Private sales to criminals would no longer be allowed.
They aren't allowed now.
Quote:There is a major business in gun trafficking. If a criminal wants a gun he buys it instead of looking for a place to steal one.
Actually, they usually buy them from someone who stole them directly or acquired the firearm from someone who stole it.
Quote:Right now if a police officer discovered a gun (or guns) in a car with a bunch of convicted felons all it takes is one guy with a clean record to claim ownership of the weapons and without more evidence there is nothing the police can do.
It's not that simple, and you know it.
Quote:And if a police officer encounters a person with a gun the officer has no way to check his mental background to determine if he should be allowed to own a gun.
Wait, so you're now saying your proposed registry would include HIPAA information as well?
Quote:Finally, holding gun owners responsible for their guns would greatly reduce the number of guns that are just laying around unlocked for kids and/or adult criminals to pick up easily.
How would a registry do that? Sounds like your creeping up on safe storage laws. But there's no such thing as a slippery slope eh?
(03-13-2018, 01:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Then just refuse to register your guns. If you are going to break the law and are willing to suffer the consequences then what difference does it make?
Arguing that a law should not be passed because it will make things harder on criminals is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.
"We can't have that law because it will make it harder for me to break the law!"
It makes compete sense when the "criminals" you refer to were law abiding citizens until they were turned into "criminals" with the stroke of a pen. Such an act seems to me the very definition of a gross injustice.
