On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:24:18 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/8/2016 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:28:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I just don't understand what the big deal is ... unless of
course your are absolutely convinced that the "government" is out to get
you.

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I'm certainly not convinced that the government is out to help me.
Everything they touch becomes a quagmire ruled by special interests.


I don't disagree with that but what makes you think they are "out to
confiscate your guns"? If it ever happened and with the government's
track record, they would screw that up just like they screw just about
everything else up. Pretty hard to go out and "pick up" 350 million
firearms across the country. :-)

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It would be very difficult. What would be easy however is to turn a
lot of people into criminals just like prohibition and the war on
drugs. Prohibition came about because of a concerted effort by a lot
of well intentioned but misguided individuals, same with the war on
drugs. Both had (have) unintended consequences far beyond what was
originally envisioned. I firmy believe that increased gun legislation
would end up the same way. Greg makes some good points about
registration leading to taxation.

On 1/8/2016 1:46 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:24:18 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/8/2016 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:28:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I just don't understand what the big deal is ... unless of
course your are absolutely convinced that the "government" is out to get
you.

===

I'm certainly not convinced that the government is out to help me.
Everything they touch becomes a quagmire ruled by special interests.


I don't disagree with that but what makes you think they are "out to
confiscate your guns"? If it ever happened and with the government's
track record, they would screw that up just like they screw just about
everything else up. Pretty hard to go out and "pick up" 350 million
firearms across the country. :-)

===

It would be very difficult. What would be easy however is to turn a
lot of people into criminals just like prohibition and the war on
drugs. Prohibition came about because of a concerted effort by a lot
of well intentioned but misguided individuals, same with the war on
drugs. Both had (have) unintended consequences far beyond what was
originally envisioned. I firmy believe that increased gun legislation
would end up the same way. Greg makes some good points about
registration leading to taxation.



If you recall that was tried with boats years ago as part of a "luxury"
tax. Didn't last long. In fact, Congress passed it in 1991 and Bush
41 signed it into law. It was canned two years later.

Wow. A boating reference.

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:33:32 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Greg makes some good points about
registration leading to taxation.



If you recall that was tried with boats years ago as part of a "luxury"
tax. Didn't last long. In fact, Congress passed it in 1991 and Bush
41 signed it into law. It was canned two years later.

Wow. A boating reference.

Two in one night. I am amazed.

I do think the luxury tax is not comparable tho because it was
defeated because it killed jobs.
A registration tax would be seen like the myriad of other "sin taxes"
and we already got used to paying registration taxes on the other
things we register (houses, cars, boats and now even toys.)