Actually, I brought up two concepts. The first was that in order for guns sold privately to be effectively tracked, you would have to register them all. Coming up on 300 million of them, last I heard, many of them owned by law abiding people like myself, who might just want to break such a law, and many owned by those not so law abiding, who wouldn't give it a second thought.
Ah yes, the old slippery slope.
We must close the gun show loophole to prevent criminals and terrorists from buying guns without a background check! (Ya, right!)
We've closed the gun show loophole, but a new loophole has been identified. The private sale loophole. We must close the private sale loophole to keep terrorists and criminals from buying guns without a background check.
We've closed the private sale loophole, but we can't track private sales without having all of the guns sold in private transactions, registered.
We've got to get all handguns and deadly sniper rifles registered so we know where a criminal got his guns if he is caught with them.
Handguns are too dangerous, like assault weapons. We have most of them registered. We will be sending out letters to registered owners giving them 30 days and 100 dolloars to turn them in. This is necessary for public safety, and thus, according to the Bush Justice Dept. is a reasonable regulation of firearms and does not violate the Second Amendment.
We think that all guns should be stored at a private club and you must be a member of that club to have a license to keep a firearm there. The violence with guns is just getting out of hand.
We know how well Canada's gun registration has worked out for them. And it was so cheap. They have far less people and guns than we do and it still cost over a Billion dollars to implement the system. It's still missing about 30% of the estimated guns, but some folks think it's even higher than 30%.
We all know how the UK's ban on guns has dropped violent crime like a stone. Ya, right.
The slippery slope does not lead to reduced crime rates. It only leads to reduced freedom for the law abiding. That's my opinion and gosh darn it, I like it. Cause I'm good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, my family likes me.