Re: The Armed Citizen - Missouri

"David Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > "David Lentz" <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Gun registration is too inherently risky to risk in a free
> > > > society.  History has shown that gun registration enables gun
> > > > confiscation.  First the state asks you to register our firearms
> > > > and then the state takes them.   You can't argue it, because it
> > > > has happened too many times.
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> > > > The state has no need to know which of her citizens are armed or
> > > > not.
> > >
> > > Thank you sir!
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> > Which is the most realistic threat: government tyranny or armed
criminals?
> > Registration seems like a small thing to ask to reduce armaments in the
> > hands of thugs.
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> 1. Government tyranny is a huge threat, especially given the recent
tendency
> of the people to give the government ever more power.
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> 2. how many "thugs" do you think bother to acquire their weapons legally?

No matter what is done, some bad guys will be able to get guns.

What a workable registration system would do would be to make it harder for
the less serious criminals to get one. Drying up the supply, as it were.
This would probably requie gun manufacturers to match their production with
issued permits and if production overshot, they would have to account for
it.

Knowing I will be flayed to the skeleton for saying that <g>, let me point
out that public opinion is firmly in favor of this kind of thing. The gun
lobby risks overplaying it's hand by digging in it's heels against
registration.

http://www.mppgv.org/public%20opinion.htm

SG