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Should their be a public registry of Gun Owners?

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If anything, the sex offender database should be abolished or made accessible only by law enforcement personnel. No need to intrude even further into people's lives.
 
These signs would become very popular if a public gun registry became available as we would also know who doesn't have guns as well.

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highland145 said:
Came to post this pic.:thumbsup: Wonder if Amazon sells them?
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Would have saved the bad guys a ton of time during Katrina. Just in the situations I personally observed a few groups wasted at least 20 minutes walking towards our neighborhood and another 20 minutes turning around and going back the way they came in search of a neighborhood without men standing on the corners with long guns slung over their shoulders.
 
Darwin333 said:
If they don't they would be committing a crime and we all know that criminals don't do that...
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So what you are saying then is that the 'criminals' who have guns would not register their guns...This means that the only people who would be on the registry would be the law-abiding citizens and not any criminals who would be more likely to commit gun crimes...

Got it...
 
Darwin333 said:
Would have saved the bad guys a ton of time during Katrina. Just in the situations I personally observed a few groups wasted at least 20 minutes walking towards our neighborhood and another 20 minutes turning around and going back the way they came in search of a neighborhood without men standing on the corners with long guns slung over their shoulders.
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lol. Would love to see pics of their faces.
 
There is no reason to even consider such things. If there is then everyone should be on it and only the dumbest of fools would not be. More power to em I say...
 
Darwin333 said:
People with arms are 100% more likely to beat you to a pulp with their bare hands than those without arms.

People with vaginas are 100% more likely to be female hookers than those without a vagina.

People with dicks are 100% more likely to cum in your mouth while you are giving them a bj than people without.

People with bathtubs are 100% more likely to drown in a bathtub than people without bathtubs.

People who are driving a car are 100% more likely to run you over than people who aren't driving.

I can do this all day, your point sucks. Show me some real proof that law abiding gun owners are more dangerous than some of the most basic things in our society like bathtubs, swimming pools, cars, etc.....
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Not true if you watch the "Tranny's gone wild" version of Cops. 😉
 
DCal430 said:
Like we have a sex offender registry, what about a gun owner one. Anyone who owns a gun is registred along with their name and address. This way people can the area can know who does and doesn't own a gun, and who is a potential danger to the community. Seems fair enough, own a gun get on a public database.

I am sure I am not the only one who would like to know if any of my neighbors are harboring a gun or two or more.
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Why would you want to know? What is your concern? Here's my reasoning:
  • People who would be on the register would have bought guns legally
  • People who bought illegally or stole would not be listed
  • People who bought legally are more likely to be responsible with them (not pointing them at people, keeping finger off trigger, checking the gun if it's loaded when handling and so forth)
  • People with guns illegally will be less likely to know what they're doing
  • People with guns legally are more likely to use the guns for self defense, hunting and shooting at the range
  • People with guns illegally are more likely to use guns to kill people.

Now, feel free to say I'm wrong on those points, but really...why would a person who legally owned worry you? Are you afraid that if your dog shits on their lawn that they'll come and shoot you? Being a gun owner myself, I do one main thing with my guns: range shooting. However I also keep my two revolvers loaded. One is easy to access (but hidden from view) and the other is stored with the rifle, but easily accessed. Whenever I pick the guns up, the FIRST thing I do is unload it. I don't point it at people. I don't threaten people with it...and as such, no neighbors know I own guns, unless they saw me carrying my ammo cans down to my car and guessed what was in them.

The simplest answer is: it's my right to own these guns. I had a background check done on me when buying them. I'm not a felon. I've committed no crime.

A sex offender raped someone. They committed a crime. They are 100% more of a felon than I am. They are more likely to be a repeat offender, than I am to shoot someone.

Doppel said:
the only actionable thing about such a registry is for burglars to hit the houses that don't own guns.

And it's there.
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Or to wait for the houses of gun owners to be empty and raid them for guns and ammo. Which is worse?

Darwin333 said:
If they don't they would be committing a crime and we all know that criminals don't do that...
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Exactly my point.

A gun register serves no purpose. What I own, and what goes on in my house THAT IS LEGAL is my business. I suspect a gun register would violate the 4th amendment?
 
RampantAndroid said:
A gun register serves no purpose. What I own, and what goes on in my house THAT IS LEGAL is my business. I suspect a gun register would violate the 4th amendment?
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You are wrong about one thing. Historically speaking mandatory gun registrations have served one purpose extremely well. It lets the .gov know who has them when they decide to take them.
 
I saw a show on the History Channel about gangs in LA. They said most of their guns came from stealing from gunowners while they're away.
 
Here is an answer:

Assume everybody has a gun, and stop assuming everybody with a gun is going to kill you. And then live happily ever after.

I own 3 guns, my neighbhors own guns (they've told me, I live in a rural area, so there's only like 4 houses within a mile), and I feel completely safe in my neighbhorhood. I hear gunshots almost every weekend when I'm out in my yard... They are either shooting game, be in pheasants, grouse, deer, or target shooting. I don't even shrug at it.

When you are around guns, they suddenly become less scary. I'm more scared of the swat team going to my house on accident coming to shoot me up and my family than I am of my neighbhors.

There should be a public list of swat team members and when they are going to come kill someone in the area, so I can be prepared.
 
We need to get rid of all Federal gun control as well as disarm the Federal government. An armed society is a polite society, an armed state destroys liberty.
 
No. Given that the US has about 300,000,000 guns at this point, short of flagrantly unconstitutional house-to-house searches you'd get a database of law-abiding gun owners. The criminals would never register and would have a multiple lifetime supply of unregistered firearms.
 
The American government has proven beyond all reasonable doubt that firearm regulation does NOT reduce any form of crime. Since such a list would also be an invasion of privacy I see nothing good of it.

As more people kill and are killed by cars, I'd like a law that forces people to put stickers all around their vehicle showing how many and what types of accidents they been in. Especially cuz the right to drive is NOT guaranteed by the constitution and is in fact a privilege granted by states individually. Actually I wish they would force a road test on people every 10 years after they first get their license. And make it challenging enough that dumb slackers cant pass.
 
Darwin333 said:
You are wrong about one thing. Historically speaking mandatory gun registrations have served one purpose extremely well. It lets the .gov know who has them when they decide to take them.
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I was trying to avoid sounding like a crazy (not calling you one - you're totally right), but yes. Look at russia during the...30s? Guns go away...people start being killed.


soundforbjt said:
I saw a show on the History Channel about gangs in LA. They said most of their guns came from stealing from gunowners while they're away.
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And IMO, a register would only further facilitate this.
 
I think we all agree (except for maybe Anarchist420) that there must be some limits on the second amendment. No chemical, biological, or nuclear arms allowed. No howitzers or Abrams tanks allowed. Things like that come immediately to mind.

So the discussion over gun control legislation is not about having no limits to the second amendment, sane people already agree there needs to be limits there, but at what point the limit is placed.
 
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