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We don't have inspections in SC. They tried it once. The arguments to do away with it mirror gun arguments.
We don't have inspections in SC. They tried it once. The arguments to do away with it mirror gun arguments.
So.... that's your answer?
Wrong emphasis if you're quoting the US Bill of Rights.
You do realize that is subjective. And language changes, are you sure the use of people has the meaning you assign to it.
How is a firearm registration going to keep anyone safe?
Then why does obeying the law keep anyone safe? Not that hard to understand.
"Only 2 of the 743 gunshot deaths occurring in the home involved an intruder killed during an attempted entry, and only 9 of the deaths were determined by police/courts to be justified (FE Zimring, Firearms, violence, and public policy, Scientific American, vol. 265, 1991, p. 48). The evidence revealed in the Kellermann study is consistent with data reported by the FBI. In 1993, there were 24,526 people murdered, 13,980 with handguns, yet only 251 justifiable homicides by civilians using handguns. (FBI, Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports 1994, 1995)."
A Case for Gun Control
Why would law abiding people be opposed to law. You guys often ask that question, now answer it. No right is written in stone - life and the world changes.
We don't have inspections in SC. They tried it once. The arguments to do away with it mirror gun arguments.
So.... that's your answer?
I'm not sure if we are following each other.
The reasons for auto inspections started out on the same issues as gun control: safety. Automoblies were thought of as dangerous things and their owners were believed to be not intelligent enough to know when a vehicle was safe or not or how to handle a vehicle safely. So we inspect everyone's vehicle with the assumption that no one is smart enough to know if a vehicle is safe or not.
We don't have inspections in SC. They tried it once. The arguments to do away with it mirror gun arguments.
So.... that's your answer?
I'm not sure if we are following each other.
The reasons for auto inspections started out on the same issues as gun control: safety. Automoblies were thought of as dangerous things and their owners were believed to be not intelligent enough to know when a vehicle was safe or not or how to handle a vehicle safely. So we inspect everyone's vehicle with the assumption that no one is smart enough to know if a vehicle is safe or not.
So.... that's your answer?
I'm not sure if we are following each other.
The reasons for auto inspections started out on the same issues as gun control: safety. Automoblies were thought of as dangerous things and their owners were believed to be not intelligent enough to know when a vehicle was safe or not or how to handle a vehicle safely. So we inspect everyone's vehicle with the assumption that no one is smart enough to know if a vehicle is safe or not.
Well... right... but the assumption with guns is that they are dangerous to others because of their nature. I don't think it's quite the same with cars. And an inspection of guns doesn't seem to me to be as much about the safety of the owners as much as a way to track the owners.
I don't understand why it's a bad thing to make people register guns. Guns are not being banned. You can still own them. They are just making it harder for people with criminal records and mental imbalances to get their hands on one. Or am I mistaken?
I'm not sure if we are following each other.
The reasons for auto inspections started out on the same issues as gun control: safety. Automoblies were thought of as dangerous things and their owners were believed to be not intelligent enough to know when a vehicle was safe or not or how to handle a vehicle safely. So we inspect everyone's vehicle with the assumption that no one is smart enough to know if a vehicle is safe or not.
Well... right... but the assumption with guns is that they are dangerous to others because of their nature. I don't think it's quite the same with cars. And an inspection of guns doesn't seem to me to be as much about the safety of the owners as much as a way to track the owners.
Eh...inspections are more of a revenue tool, under the guise of safety, these days. But vehicle registration is exactly that: a way to track and montior travel of the owners of vehicles.
Again, your right to freedom of travel is promised in the same documents and in the manner as your right to bear arms. The fact that we have allowed our right to this freedom to be so heavily restricted is a reasonble thing to mention and point out. It should serve as a valuable example of not only how a right is converted to priviledge, but how, with tiny steps, the population will accept it.
When I was a kid, there were movies that demonized the USSR and the common scene was a family traveling somewhere and a burley man with a gun and a badge would utter in a thick accent "let me see your papers". That never happens here huh? I can tell you, as I have traveled the whole contry, you damn well better have your papers straight, a beleivable strory about where you are coming from and going to. If you don't beleive me, next time you get stopped and they ask, "where are you going", and they will ask, just tell them you are free to travel and it's none of their business where you are going. Send me a post card from whatever jail you are detained in.
I don't understand why it's a bad thing to make people register guns. Guns are not being banned. You can still own them. They are just making it harder for people with criminal records and mental imbalances to get their hands on one. Or am I mistaken?
Wrong emphasis if you're quoting the US Bill of Rights.
You do realize that is subjective. And language changes, are you sure the use of people has the meaning you assign to it.
We already have something like that in Arkansas. In order to carry a pistol, you have to get a concealed carry license which costs almost $300. For that, you get fingerprinted and extensive background checks are performed. If you get pulled over by a cop for whatever reason, they have their gun ready and order you to get out of the car with your hands so they can see them because they know you might have a gun. You also get your name posted on the internet by Libtards like this guy:
Concealed carry permit holders in Arkansas Assaulted by Arkansas Times Editor - Topix
Carrying a gun appears to make you a very dangerous person.
I completely agree with your asessment. I have long held that the hunting/sporting argument that is made so many times by the right is the COMPLETE wrong argument. The purpose of the 2nd ammendment is indeed to keep an armed citizenry AGAINST the Government.
However, the right to freedom of travel is also part of our rights to not be oppressed by the government. The Supreme Court actually held this view with regard to whatever the current standard of transportation might be, at one time.
Just as your gun rights have been infrindged on the basis of safety, so has your right to travel. A right has been turned into a priviledge. This argument has been made successfully on more than one occasion.