Posted on 04/13/2009 5:14:23 AM PDT by Scanian
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them.
The speaker picked a television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats' coming gun-control push. Questioned on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that "it's a Democratic president, a Democratic House," she responded, "We don't want to take their guns away. We want them registered."
Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway.
The few guns left at crime scenes rarely - if ever - are registered to the perpetrator. If they are registered at all, it is to someone else, whose piece was stolen. Despite what Mrs. Pelosi might think, those who use guns to commit major crimes such as robbing and killing are unlikely to respect her request to file paperwork so the government can catalog the tools of their trade.
Numerous examples disprove gun-control propaganda. Hawaii has had licensing and registration of guns for about 50 years.
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We knew they were going to try this...
I don’t own a gun, but don’t you have to give you name and information to buy a gun? Basically isn’t this some sort of registration? I keep telling my husband we need to go and buy a gun for me, my daughter and him.
I wish they’d hold off a bit longer - I’ve been trying to save for a shed, and I keep having to use the money to buy more guns before they DO register them, and I really need the shed...
I have heard that gun control issues are usually very toxic from a political perspective—I’m surprised that Pelosi would try this.
Yeah, right. Didn't they do that in California with the SKS rifle? "We just want to know where they are." Then, ops guess what...They're now illegal. Turn them in or you'll be an instant felon.
At a gun show, I don’t think you have to give your information.
The left always will work to (1) destroy our military (2) take our guns (3) increase taxes and (4) grow the size of government.
Rather than try to catch the perp, registration means that fedgov (or your insurance carrier) can impose a “strict liability” law (or policy rider) that means that if a gun registered to you is used in a crime, you are liable for damages and possible criminal liability (since YOU let the criminal get access to the gun through your negligence- a measly 4” thick concrete-steel safe with biometric crypto locks).
Plus, homeowner insurance companies can be pressured by fedgov or their underwriters (AIG) to drop coverage of registrants, or impose huge liability contingency fees.
So with registration comes perhaps a $2000 annual fee to keep your S&W 41 target gun.
Best way to illuminate the issue for now is to ask the proponents just how registration reduces crime, and keep drilling down until specifics emerge, or the blank-stare ignorance you get from hoplophobes.
Guns? Gun registration? What guns? I never had one or would I own any of those dangerous things.
I'm disgusted, but not surprised. Pelosi has always deomonstrated that dangerous combination of being power-hungry while not being very bright.
If guns get registered, you will see newspapers publishing the “list” just like they do in some places for CCW holders. This will provide an easy shopping list for thieves looking for firearms registered to someone else. Very dangerous idea, that will do NOTHING to reduce crime. Just ask someone how registration reduces crime—there is no good answer.
“”At a gun show, I don’t think you have to give your information.””””
That is incorrect. You might find the occasional private seller, but the guys at the tables are almost always FFL dealers so you have to fill out all the paperwork right there.
The “gun show loophole” is an urban myth perpetuated by slimy politicians to an ignorant public.
The ways that criminals get guns are to (1) steal them, or (2) have girlfriends with clean records buy them for them, or (3) have others with clean records buy them in exchange for cash.
I believe there is court precedent that criminals do not have to register guns under the 5th amendment.
Let the dhimtard fall in the traps!
They are in complete megalomaniac hubris
Sounds the same here.
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