The other day I fished my usual spot for images of the antis and found it to be brimming, so let’s just toss down a few!
Ahh the “Blood in the Streets” argument! Need I say more?
Well except gun registration HAS lead to confiscation of guns, both abroad and here in the US. While I’m not crazy about mandatory registration of cars, you can find plenty of stories of police actually using registration to solve crimes, can ANYBODY point out a case where gun registration has lead to a crime being solved?
Further I suspect the majority of car registration is simply used for taxation purposes.
Still if we can’t point to crimes being solved or benefits to public safety, but we CAN point to many cases of confiscation, why do you think antis are for this?
Here’s the latest saw of the antis that really gets my goat:
OK so what does this insurance actually DO? If your gun is used in a crime either you can be held criminally or not, and insurance doesn’t do much to deal with that. I’ve used car insurance when I’ve had an accident, but gun accidents are exceedingly rare, and gun accidents that aren’t criminal instances don’t really amount to much damage. I don’t see the benefit of a policy to pay for that $5 bucket of Spackle to fix a hole.
And of course you have to LOVE the idea that “Properly secured weapons CAN’T be stolen”. CAN’T, as in IMPOSSIBLE. Yeah, look at your favorite safe maker. Do they guarantee your goods won’t be stolen? Of course not! And while some big safes make it VERY hard for your average thief to crack them, we’re talking about hundreds to thousands of dollars.
What if you only have one or two guns? Should you be REQUIRED to buy a thousand dollar safe to protect $500 worth of guns? Plus your average bedside safe might keep your gun secured from unauthorized access, the safe can simply be hauled away by thieves who can then use all the tools and time they need to crack them.
Nothing is theft proof, and this “insurance” idea seems to be nothing more than a tax of gun ownership, and create a pay gate to prevent people from buying their first gun.
And last is a personal issue of mine:
First we have a nice false dichotomy. It is 100% legal to sell and transfer firearms to other lawful people. OxyContin is a Schedule II drug, and can only be given by a doctor’s prescription, and our “War on Drugs” is even limiting Doctor’s freedom to prescribe these drugs to people who could most benefit from them.
And yet we still have people abusing opiates, and crime rings and drug store robberies to fuel this market. Just make the shit legal and let people do what they want.
Their body, their choice, right?
“Car registration has not led to a government round-up of cars. Gun registration makes sense.”
But, but, but…. The antis are constantly telling us that guns and cars can’t be compared. That guns are different, because they’re different.
I guess they’re only “different” if they can’t use the analogy to make their argument.
Really, though, car registration ONLY works because it’s mandatory to have a unique identifier, plainly visible on the car and readable from a hundred yards, from which the police can tell at a glance if the registration is current and run through their system in real time if they need more details.
It’s called a “license plate.”
Unfortunately, in this case guns really are different; there’s no practical, feasible, or socially acceptable way to duplicate this system for guns. I don’t know about you, but I sure as Hell am not going to hang a foot-long metal registration plate off my ass. 😉
And nevermind that car registration is only required for cars that are driven on public roads.
Hey, if you want to treat guns like cars then how about carry permits that are shall issue in every state and have nationwide reciprocity?
Oh and no FOID cards, given those are for ownership, not operation on public streets.
And you gotta love the blatant two-faced nature. Sure they demand regulating “all gun sales” but they then swear that said private sale bans won’t lead to registration… Meanwhile they go on about how awesome registration is.
And they then brag about how registration won’t be used to round up guns, while at the exact same time they scream about the need to ban “weapons of war”.
Gee…
“Car registration has not led to a government round-up of cars. Gun registration makes sense.”
Really? Hmm…could you explain to me the police impound lots filled with cars that filed to keep up with their registration?
Could you explain to the police impound lots filled with cars that didn’t pass their state mandated — part of the registration scheme — inspection ?
FAIL !