10-03-2019, 04:53 PM
(10-03-2019, 04:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: A gun registry has zero to do with confiscation laws. This speaking point is a total red herring.
Confiscation laws will be passed even if there is no gun registry. There is no connection between the two. The fact that a gun registry could assist confiscation is also meaningless because if confiscation laws are passed the anyone who did not comply would be a criminal.
So complaining about a gun registry being used to enforce confiscation laws is just arguing for the protection of criminals.
A gun registry would do a world of good in enforcing the laws some people act like they want to see enforced. The fact that it could be used in the future for confiscation is no reason to avoid the good it could do now.
Would they, though? It is established that there is an individual right to bear arms. If a confiscation law were passed and someone were rebuking that law they would be following the Constitution, the highest law in the land. Obviously the proper way is to fight it in court (which believe you me if such a law were passed there would be a case filed so fast it would make your head spin and there would 100% be an injunction to prevent the implementation until it was resolved), but this philosophical question still remains.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
