I am on another (non gun) forum and there is a person there who is always right, please respond to his logic below.
"I guess I just don't get the refusal to register a gun. You already have a registered car. You file taxes every year. If you have a cell phone, it's monitored. You're on a traffic cam almost every time you go on a highway. If you bought your gun with a credit or debit card OR in Pennsylvania, it's trackable. In PA, you had to pass a background check, regardless of whatever bill is passed or fails in the senate, we already HAVE that rule here. If you buy ammo with your CC/DC, it's trackable.
The benefit of a gun registry, to me, is that if registration of legal handguns were required, then in urban areas, ANY unregistered handgun (the kind used in 87% of all firearm related crime) could be confiscated and the holder charged with felony possession. If this happens, gun crime WILL go down. Illegal owners AND illegal guns will come off the streets. Gun advocates WILL be able to trumpet the "law-abiding gun owner" argument even louder. The second amendment will become even MORE iron-clad than it already is.
The text of the amendment is "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is, the ONLY amendment in the ENTIRE constitution to have a qualifying phrase. "A WELL REGULATED militia being necessary to the security of a free state...." No other amendment is qualified. They are straightforward rights. No reason given. No "regulation" is stated RIGHT THERE IN THE AMENDMENT. Anyone trying to use the 2nd amendment to fight regulation, when the second amendment uses fully HALF of it's words to require regulation, is simply not paying attention.
And a registration does not, in any way, infringe the right to keep and bear. There is no reason not to have a registry except for the "slippery slope" argument which is a red herring argument. You can use it for ANY proposed law. If they can do THIS, why can't the do THAT??!??! Well, because that's not how it works. To do THAT, they need to pass ANOTHER law. Especially in this legal and political climate, any law passed will likely specifically REJECT any "slippery slope" possibility from coming to fruition."
"I guess I just don't get the refusal to register a gun. You already have a registered car. You file taxes every year. If you have a cell phone, it's monitored. You're on a traffic cam almost every time you go on a highway. If you bought your gun with a credit or debit card OR in Pennsylvania, it's trackable. In PA, you had to pass a background check, regardless of whatever bill is passed or fails in the senate, we already HAVE that rule here. If you buy ammo with your CC/DC, it's trackable.
The benefit of a gun registry, to me, is that if registration of legal handguns were required, then in urban areas, ANY unregistered handgun (the kind used in 87% of all firearm related crime) could be confiscated and the holder charged with felony possession. If this happens, gun crime WILL go down. Illegal owners AND illegal guns will come off the streets. Gun advocates WILL be able to trumpet the "law-abiding gun owner" argument even louder. The second amendment will become even MORE iron-clad than it already is.
The text of the amendment is "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is, the ONLY amendment in the ENTIRE constitution to have a qualifying phrase. "A WELL REGULATED militia being necessary to the security of a free state...." No other amendment is qualified. They are straightforward rights. No reason given. No "regulation" is stated RIGHT THERE IN THE AMENDMENT. Anyone trying to use the 2nd amendment to fight regulation, when the second amendment uses fully HALF of it's words to require regulation, is simply not paying attention.
And a registration does not, in any way, infringe the right to keep and bear. There is no reason not to have a registry except for the "slippery slope" argument which is a red herring argument. You can use it for ANY proposed law. If they can do THIS, why can't the do THAT??!??! Well, because that's not how it works. To do THAT, they need to pass ANOTHER law. Especially in this legal and political climate, any law passed will likely specifically REJECT any "slippery slope" possibility from coming to fruition."