(08-27-2015 05:18 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: There's nothing nefarious in ensuring that paranoid gun owners be properly tracked, checked, and managed. Its common sense.
You support then, for instance, that on government orders the police went door-to-door, confiscating firearms and leaving the remaining citizens disarmed and helpless in the face of looters and gangs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? The way they did in Boston after the marathon bombing when body-armored “police” riding in battlewagons went up and down the streets, making citizens come out of their homes with their hands over their heads, ostensibly so the troops could look for terrorists?
Are you going to station police and troops all around the country to search every person, every car coming in? Stop and frisk all black men and college girls living in the neighborhood? So you’ve cleared two blocks, or ten, or a hundred, or maybe the entire city of Minneapolis – how many police and troops are tied up in keeping firearms properly tracked, checked, and managed?
A guy carrying a backpack full of pistols could walk across the border anywhere. How many police and troops do you need to station along all four borders to keep Minnesota sterile while you’re clearing Wisconsin, figuring one sentry every how many yards, and how many sentries working shifts to provide round-the-clock coverage, plus backup personnel for sick days? Who’s going to inspect every car and truck coming into the state?
And that impossibility guarantees the day after your tracked, checked, and managed (really a disarmament) law takes effect, it starts to lose effect, as legal arms are replaced with illegal arms used by illegal owners to commit illegal acts of gun violence. And that guarantees your plan will be as big a failure as Prohibition, the war on drugs and the war on illegal immigration.
If you’re going to get American guns, Tom, you’re going to have to go house to house to do it. The Army and Marines had a hell of a time taking Fallujah, one pissant city in one pissant country. You start sending American troops to kick down American doors in American cities and I suspect the dead National Guardsmen and police will begin to pile up in a hurry. If you can get any National Guardsmen and police to implement your plan.......
It’s completely impossible to impose a sterile tracked, checked, and managed zone on an entire liberal democracy the size of America.
The answer to gun violence is not more laws, and it is certainly not a database of tracked, checked, and managed legal gun owners.