I personally rankle at the idea of registration, but if we're ever going to move ahead with something that will actually work, we'll need to satisfy those interested mainly in significantly reducing gun deaths by making a penalty for illegal guns so stiff that it actually becomes effective (worked famously in Australia), and to do that we'll need to have a government record of each and every gun legally owned.
We're all going to have to compromise, but hopefully this way still gives everyone the crux of what they're truly desire: a truly significant reduction or near elimination of illegal guns, guns in the hands of the lawful, the ability to own whatever kind of weapon a lawful person desires, the ability to more instantly track down the guns that are used in gun crimes (registration would also entail a sample bullet and casing fired from that weapon to be digitally cataloged for forensic matching), and legal protections for non-gun-owing citizens who might be damaged by irresponsible acts of gun owners. The ATF could reduce its work to a very important yet much more targeted and manageable task: coordinating record searches among the various states' databases and managing incoming shipments of guns, their distribution to licensed gun dealers (and no more home-based dealers!), and auditing gun dealers. Guys, I really want to make something work in this country for both avid gun owners like myself and people who despise the very thought of them. I believe in getting the scumbags who commit gun crimes off the street for good. I want there to be an inescapable "stick-a-fork-in-him-he's-done" law that simply says, "You break this law designed to erode the ability of the criminally-oriented to do crime, you're freedom is gone forever." I want to make it to where when someone sees a person carrying a holstered gun into a grocery store or a bank (like I used to do many years ago), there is no fear whatsoever because everyone knows he has a bona fide history of respecting the law. I want the law-abiding citizens who care to do so be able to purchase, own, and carry whatever weapon they deem appropriate for which their state government cannot show good cause to deny them. I want it so that, a few relatively short decades from now, gun crime in this country of ours is reduced to such a small percentage of overall crime that it becomes national news each time, and stops people in their tracks to see who was goddamned stupid enough to commit it. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement > -----Original Message----- > From: denstar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:51 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Right To Bear Arms > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Adam Churvis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .... > > What do you all think of these ideas? Are we getting somewhere? > Could this > > actually fly? > > You know what's funny? After the "go to their homes, and kill them" > comment, I'm wondering if registration is even such a good idea. > > LOL. > > Guns don't kill people, [insert your choice finisher here] > > |DeN > > -- > "- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs." > ---- Will - The Taming of the Shrew > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257191 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
