03-13-2018, 12:38 PM
(03-13-2018, 12:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Two reasons.
1. If they turn on you in two years it will not make any difference what happens today. They will make those laws in the future whether we have registration laws today or not.
Sure it will. If they don't have a list of the firearms people own then confiscating them will be much more difficult. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
Quote:2. Registration laws are necessary to enforce the laws intended to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Eighty percent of gun violence is committed by people who are not the rightful owners of the guns they used. Without any gun registration requirements it is just way to easy for a criminal to obtain and possess a firearm.
Clearly they are not "necessary" by definition as we don't have them now. Registration won't make it any more difficult for a criminal to acquire a gun, especially as they typically acquire them during burglaries or robberies.
Quote:Basically your argument is "I will not agree to a good law today because they may pass the same law or a different law in two years."
I don't think it's a good law, so, no, that's not my argument.
Quote:Only a person who lives in the NRA echo chamber would see any logic in an argument like that.
Ahh, a different term than brainwashing. Very clever, Fred.
Quote:It makes absolutely no sense at all.
It makes plenty of sense, you just don't agree with it. I think you've aptly demonstrated that Fred's opinion is not automatically analogous with "makes sense".
