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In reply to the discussion: Approaching gun control from another angle [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)irresponsible people simply take their chances.
Think of the huge numbers of people who take a chance and drive after they have been drinking.
Many people tend to be overly optimistic. The overly optimistic feel quite certain that dreadful things will not happen to them.
And then there are the risk-takers who just like to show off to themselves that they don't have to follow rules.
Do you think they would choose to register their guns?
I don't know whether discretionary registration assumes that people are wiser than they are.
If we didn't have to register our cars, would we do it? Would we pay the fee?
What surprises me is how many people drive without insurance on their car if they don't have to show proof of insurance when they register the car.
So, emotionally, I am liberal so I like the OP proposal. I like to think that everyone is responsible, but intellectually, I know better. So I doubt that it would work.