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goobster  ·  2213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

The idea of gun registration raises hackles because people have been sold two decades of slippery-slope bullshit from Wayne LaPierre.

Does failing to register your car mean they can come take it?

No.

Does OPERATING an unregistered vehicle carry a penalty?

Yes.

Every single pro-gun argument falls immediately on its face. And I am a pro-gun owner with a concealed weapons permit.

Tell me to go down to the range and get tested and register my guns, and I'll say, "Sure. I'll be there next week."

Even better, provide a BuyBack program at the same time, so I can easily get rid of the guns I don't want, and get a little money from them, without worrying whether I am selling them to a nutcase, then even better ... I'll sell you three of my four guns.

I don't know a single gun owner who WOULDN'T do this.

It's Wayne LaPierre and his foreign-funded fuckwits who have fucked the conversation and derail it every time the conversation gets reasonable and logical.