For them, the Washington Post statements can be revealing and instructive, especially because the Washington Post is accepted by most "progressives" as a serious source.
The caption did not come through with the picture. It is of Second Amendment supporters burning gun registration forms in New York.
A large segment of the US population thinks that confiscation is a good idea. They will work tirelessly to get there, step by step.
The only rational response to this is to oppose them at every step and at every opportunity. No matter how minor or “reasonable” the proposal, it should always be opposed because it is, inevitably, just another step along the predetermined path.
If registration ever becomes required I will go to the police station that very day and report all of my guns lost in “an unfortunate boating accident”.
Problem solved.
NY SAFE Act - massive noncompliance:
The SAFE Act also required that the estimated 1 million assault weapons in private ownership in 2013 be registered with the State Police. After the Cuomo administration stonewalled a Freedom of Information request for more than a year, an Albany judge ordered the State Police to release data on the number of weapons registered as required. They revealed that only 44,000 firearms had been registered.
Subtract from that number the firearms owned by police officers and licensed dealers (who have little way to avoid registration), and it’s clear the compliance rate for registration among average citizens is less than 4 percent. It’s hard to call a law that commands a 96 percent noncompliance rate a success
Due to its time-wasting bureaucracy, three-quarters of the state’s county sheriffs (including those elected in virtually all of the rural counties) have made clear they are not aggressively enforcing the SAFE Act, except as an “add-on” charge for other crimes, and 52 of the state’s 62 county legislatures have approved resolutions opposing the SAFE Act.
LE can no longer be trusted to comply with the Constitution. Theyll do whatever their employers (the pols) tell them to do. The article conveniently omits the fact the confiscators will be LE. It is honest when is says registration will lead to confiscation.
Maybe the gun-grabbers can start in Chicago by requiring all gang members to register for a gun safety course. Then, when they show up, they can be disarmed and arrested. Law abiding citizens are already registered - we’re not the problem.
Which should reveal why leftists are so desperate to get it enacted.
GUN REGISTRATION EXPLAINED BACK IN 1976 BY THE TOP DOG GUN GRABBER.
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again.
Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — TOTAL CONTROL of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered.
And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”
-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview
(Now you can add rifles and shotguns to the list.)
For those who may still doubt, back in the 1980s HCI decided to go after semi-auto military style rifles along with handguns.
‘The Only Person Safe in a Gun-Free Zone Is the Criminal’, Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.