01-06-2016, 07:41 PM
(01-06-2016, 04:57 PM)F.U. Wrote: Its because of how things turned out across the pond that I don't want to even consider the way they did things. Its not that hard to understand HotD. But that's OK. Glad I can make you laugh.
We don't have to consider a national registry in order to look at the other components of a foreign model/system objectively, obviously. It's not all or nothing.
Anyway, the U.S. already has mandatory registration of firearms in some states.
In any case, a federal registry isn't on the table in the U.S., no matter what other model components we consider or whether the new Executive Actions are implemented in full. Fear that simply taking measures to make it harder for people to obtain a gun without a background check is a direct path to registration, confiscation and tyranny is baseless at this time, in my view.
Establishing a federal registry would require repealing the Federal Firearm Owners Protection Act forbidding such a registry. It would also require getting the necessary approval votes from the designated majority of states. That would be a very difficult and time consuming task to accomplish considering our culture. Americans have proven that gun massacres by private citizens don't have the same change-stimulating effect on our collective population as they have in other western nations like England, Australia, Canada...
If at some point, however, a majority of U.S. citizens grew to favor a national gun registry and they elected representatives who lobbied and voted for it, a national gun registry could (and should) become a reality. That's Democracy.
But even if a national registry was approved and implemented, it wouldn't be an invitation for big brother to confiscate all your guns just because registries allowed foreign governments to mandate buy backs and confiscate guns more easily. The U.S. is unique in its Constitutional guarantee of the rights of citizens to bear arms. Repealing or amending the Constitution would also require the support of the majority of the people's elected state representatives and probably Supreme Court involvement; another difficult and time consuming endeavor.