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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania Getting Tougher on Straw Purchasing in a Bumbling Sort of Way [View all]Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)42. Because gun-owners won't allow it, for starters.
Why is that a non-starter?
For starters, gun-owners won't allow it. Worse come to worst, they won't obey it. I won't, I can tell you that much. The day they pass a law that says I have to register my firearms with the government is the day I become a criminal.
You don't really believe there would follow gun confiscations. You're not that stupid. In the USA, with it's history and tradition of gun ownership, which distinguishes it from other countries you always compare us to, it could never happen, Even if the 2A were repealed and all guns were registered it could not happen here. You're not paranoid enough to think other wise.
It has already happened in the United States. In California, many residents had registered their SKS rifles with the state. The state then decided that these would not be allowed, and confiscated them with no compensation to the owners.
No, your problem is you just don't like being told what to do. Like an rebellious adolescent, you resent legitimate authority.
What I don't like is an over-reaching government that abridges my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. A right that was enumerated as a last resort to keep the power of that government in check. Giving that government a list of the people able to do that directly undermines the intent of the second amendment.
It's time to grow up. Gun control is coming.
You keep holding your breath, Baldr.
For starters, gun-owners won't allow it. Worse come to worst, they won't obey it. I won't, I can tell you that much. The day they pass a law that says I have to register my firearms with the government is the day I become a criminal.
You don't really believe there would follow gun confiscations. You're not that stupid. In the USA, with it's history and tradition of gun ownership, which distinguishes it from other countries you always compare us to, it could never happen, Even if the 2A were repealed and all guns were registered it could not happen here. You're not paranoid enough to think other wise.
It has already happened in the United States. In California, many residents had registered their SKS rifles with the state. The state then decided that these would not be allowed, and confiscated them with no compensation to the owners.
No, your problem is you just don't like being told what to do. Like an rebellious adolescent, you resent legitimate authority.
What I don't like is an over-reaching government that abridges my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. A right that was enumerated as a last resort to keep the power of that government in check. Giving that government a list of the people able to do that directly undermines the intent of the second amendment.
It's time to grow up. Gun control is coming.
You keep holding your breath, Baldr.
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Pennsylvania Getting Tougher on Straw Purchasing in a Bumbling Sort of Way [View all]
mikeb302000
Oct 2012
OP
Unconstitutional infringement on my privacy - it is none of the government's business
hack89
Oct 2012
#1
I agree and would add....If someone has a gun in public, they had BETTER have the license with them
swayne
Oct 2012
#4
May I please see your First, Fourth, Thirteenth and Twenty-Fourth Amendment Licences?
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#15
You are either remarkably ignorant about the subject you pontificate on, or you're being untruthful.
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2012
#36
So that would be ~75 million additional transactions per year down at the police station,
petronius
Oct 2012
#32
Our Mikey/Jason/Baldr seems to have hit the daily double of factual inaccuracy...
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2012
#45