NRA and gun owners won't go for it...
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The NRA would fight such a thing tooth and nail and the black helicopter crowd would be right there with them. For some strange reason, there is this belief that if guns are tracked adequately, then that would lead to confiscation when it came to the government's time to start seizing the guns and it would only help the government when they would know exactly who owns what. What gets me about this gun debate is how the NRA and wacko gun owners of the gun owning crowd are able to drive this debate and prevent any realistic measures that would have an impact on gun violence. For example, a large number of firearms end up in the hands of criminals due to actual first point of legal purchases (straw purchases and gun show purchases). Secondly, a lot of firearms also end up out on the street through things like people who know someone getting the firearm from that person either by illegal means or by buying them or other means. But I just love the crowd that claim things like magazine capacity or availability is an infringement on their right to own a gun when it is not. Even odder is years ago due to lead bbs in shotgun shells killing off waterfowl, lead shot was made illegal for hunting and plugs were put in the magazines to shotguns to limit the shots of hunters. Now, did anyone claim back then they were coming to get their guns? Hell, not. But now days someone suggesting the same is seen as the gun confiscation crowd. Frankly, it comes down to white America is illogical frightened of things out there and neurotically so, too.
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The NRA would fight such a thing tooth and nail and the black helicopter crowd would be right there with them. For some strange reason, there is this belief that if guns are tracked adequately, then that would lead to confiscation when it came to the government's time to start seizing the guns and it would only help the government when they would know exactly who owns what. What gets me about this gun debate is how the NRA and wacko gun owners of the gun owning crowd are able to drive this debate and prevent any realistic measures that would have an impact on gun violence. For example, a large number of firearms end up in the hands of criminals due to actual first point of legal purchases (straw purchases and gun show purchases). Secondly, a lot of firearms also end up out on the street through things like people who know someone getting the firearm from that person either by illegal means or by buying them or other means. But I just love the crowd that claim things like magazine capacity or availability is an infringement on their right to own a gun when it is not. Even odder is years ago due to lead bbs in shotgun shells killing off waterfowl, lead shot was made illegal for hunting and plugs were put in the magazines to shotguns to limit the shots of hunters. Now, did anyone claim back then they were coming to get their guns? Hell, not. But now days someone suggesting the same is seen as the gun confiscation crowd. Frankly, it comes down to white America is illogical frightened of things out there and neurotically so, too.
