LOki
The Yaweh of Mischief
- Mar 26, 2006
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If you have the right, the gov't can't prevent you from owning the weapon, so it's not the same as asking for permission.
If I can't exercise the right without registering the gun, then it is precisely the same thing.
It IS the same, however, as exercising your rights in a responsible manner by notifying the govt that there is another deadly device in circulation and accepting a minimum level of accountibility for how that device is handled.
Similarly then, I suppose you'd advocate for registering books, magazines and newspapers, to insure that they were read responsibly; and prayers, to insure that they were perfomed responsibly; and register your person, house, papers, and effects, so that you can responsibly declare to the government which items you're to be secure from unreasonable search an siezure in; I don't know how you'd register to insure due process, a speedy trial by jury, legal counsel, protection from self incrimination, but I'll just bet you'd find a way in the name of accounability and "exercising your rights in a responsible manner."
How about that? You excersize no rights, without first registering the object of such rights--this works for you? It's not the same as asking permission to you?
Registering ownership need not be the same as applying for ownership - which, imo, would qualify as an infringement.
If you can't own the gun without registering the gun, then it is precisely the same thing as applying for ownership.