Oral Argument scheduled in Parker v DC
Fri Sep 22 08:28:57 CDT 2006 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
What they haven't yet realized is that gun registries don't do anything about domestic murders or suicides, either. The only thing a registry can possibly do is make it more expensive -- in time and money -- for ordinary people to own a gun. It won't even slow down criminals, and "ordinary people" have a myriad of other options for "spontaneously" killing themselves and/or their spouse. That assumes that actual ordinary people do such things, when the evidence is that they overwhelmingly don't.The Grits pretended the long-gun registry (handguns have had to be registered since 1934) would help prevent a repeat of the 1989 Montreal massacre in which 14 women died.
This was nonsense. Gun registries don?t deter such crimes. The main purpose of a gun registry is to warn police if they are entering a house that has registered weapons, primarily in domestic dispute cases. It?s also ? combined with requiring gun owners to obtain permits and properly store and transport their weapons ? aimed at reducing the spontaneous use of guns in moments of anger, despair or recklessness, that lead to domestic murders, suicides and accidental shootings.
Even a well-run registry won?t deter random gun violence. To suggest otherwise is a fraud. If gun control advocates want to argue for the registry to reduce domestic murders and suicides, fine. But be honest about it. For once.
Thu Sep 21 20:43:15 CDT 2006 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
Thu Sep 21 19:57:59 CDT 2006 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]