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Posted on 02/20/2012 5:07:30 AM PST by marktwain
CHICAGO | Bill Jenkins isn't your classic gun control lobbyist. In fact, he isn't even a lobbyist or a formal activist.
He is an Illinois gun owner and a father who lost a child to gun violence.
"My son was shot and killed in 1997 and ... I don't want bad guys to have guns, it's simple," Jenkins said.
Jenkins said he considers Mayor Rahm Emanuel's recent proposal to license every gun in Illinois a sensible move in the right direction.
"I think every responsible gun owner should care about how firearms are used and perceived in our society," he said.
The legislation, if passed by the General Assembly, would require every gun to be registered at a cost of $65. Emanuel says the legislation would allow authorities to more effectively trace guns, reduce the transfer of illegal firearms and help solve crimes.
The proposal has garnered significant opposition from some lawmakers and gun rights activists, including the Illinois State Rifle Association. Its executive director, Richard Pearson, said he considers it a tax on a civil liberty.
"We are not registering any firearms. Period," Pearson said. "I would propose a term limit for the mayor of the city of Chicago."
Besides opposing it because he sees it as a violation of the 2nd Amendment, Pearson said he believes gun possession is a necessity for self-defense and he wouldn't want to hinder people's ability to purchase and keep a firearm.
(Excerpt) Read more at nwitimes.com ...
It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.
The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.
$65 per gun? That’s revenue raising not licensing.
See, and Jenkins doesn't even feel like that's enough. It's only a move, in the right direction.
The end game is a total ban on bad guys having any guns at all.
And EVERYONE is a bad guy, to Jenkins.
It too bad the rural parts of Illinois can’t form their own state.
It too bad the rural parts of Illinois can’t form their own state.
Typical demonRAT, using words with no meaning.
What the hell does a "perception of a gun" mean?
I care about how my guns are used and so I've taught my children and grand children how to handle and safely use them.
I've never taught them how to "perceive" a gun.
If you don’t want bad guys to have guns, what is it about licensing that you expect to resolve that?
The way I see it, registration doesn’t necessarily lead to confiscation, but it is a necessary precursor.
And it’s not about what a registry is intended to be used for, because once it exists, it exists, for whatever use the powers that be feel it proper to use it for.
People keep talking about Hitler and gun control. Truth is, Hitler didn’t pass many gun control laws. They were put into place by the well-intentioned politicians of the Weimar Republic. And I’m sure that they had no idea that ten years later there’d be someone like Hitler in power.
So before I’m willing to discuss the merits of registration (or the lack thereof), I need to be convinced, beyond any doubt, that there will never be, an elected politician, appointed bureaucrat, or other government official, in a position of power or authority, who would be willing or able to abuse the registry to limit the ability of ordinary citizens to obtain firearms.
I’m not sure how you could convince me that we’d never, ever, see an anti-gun politician elected to any position of power. It’d take more than a Constitutional amendment, because Constitutional guarantees are empty promises, absent a citizenry dedicated to preserving them. But convince me you’d need to, to get me to accept the imposition of a gun registry.
An outright lie right off the bat.
National Gun Victims Action Council - Board of Directors - Bill Jenkins
And if you think these guys are about victims check out their objectives:
Gun Violence and NGAC's Economic Strategy to Change It
Seems their main "strategy" is to badmouth the NRA including this gem:
Whenever you hear ANYTHING about guns that seems appealing, reasonable or factual KNOW IT IS PROBABLY NOT TRUE.
The good mayor will pay it all back, plus some...
This refutes every anti-gun opinion on registration:
Death of a Long-Gun Registry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848884/posts
When I first saw the link, I thought it said nitwittimes... seems I was not too far off after reading this!
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