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(03-28-2019, 06:08 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Registration and licensing have ZERO relationship to confiscation.  This is always your big closing point and it is completely meaningless.



IF PEOPLE WANT TO PASS CONFISCATION LAWS THEY WILL PASS CONFISCATION LAWS WHETHER WE HAVE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING LAWS OR NOT.  THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO.  ZERO.  ZIP.  NADA.




Anyone who uses potential confiscation laws as an argument against licensing and registration laws has NO argument against licensing and registration laws.  Opposing licensing and registration laws will not do ANYTHING to stop confiscation laws.  Registration and licensing laws are not required before confiscation laws can be passed.

Other than making confiscation infinitely easier to implement you mean?

(03-28-2019, 06:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Stiffer penalties are a great idea, but they are meaningless and have no effect when we don't have the laws in place to enforce to catch the perpetrators.

That's an odd statement to make considering our prisons are full of them

Quote:You can have huge penalties for selling a gun to a convicted felon, but if you have no regulations in place to see who is selling guns to convicted felons the huge penalties are useless.  I own a gun and I can go sell it to any criminal and that transaction could never be traced back to me.  It is ridiculous how little regulation we have on providing dangerous weapons to convicted felons.  If every gun I owned was registered to me then I would not be able to sell them to criminals without any fear of ever being punished.

Sure it can be traced back to you, we catch people selling weapons illegally all the time.  By your logic we shouldn't be able to ever catch drug dealers.