Prototype Speech For Lenny

We've been talking politics. I don't want to talk about politics anymore. I want to talk about freedom. It's different.

You accuse me of only thinking about the gun thing when talking about politicians. Well, Lenny, it's that important. Really.

It simply must be impossible for the government to know with any degree of certainty how many guns there are and where they are located. This is the surest, simplest way to avoid a repeat of the various Socialist and Communist massacres history has provided us.

Impossible. That's the goal. A 4473 records that a given person bought a given gun at a given time. That form goes back to the feds if the licensee goes out of business, for any reason. The ATF is forbidden to computerize that information. They have been caught computerizing that information more than once. Hey, that's illegal. And nothing is done to punish the people responsible. This is why this information should never be collected in the first place. If it exists, it can be used to create a de facto list of owners. Historically speaking, every time a government is capable of making such a list, they do. These lists are used to disarm people with depressing regularity. The disarmed are never more free after they are disarmed. More often than not, they are imprisoned or murdered shortly thereafter.

Restrictions on what kind of gun I can own lead to expansions to what kind of guns are restricted.

Restrictions on who can own a gun have been expanded several times. Now someone who was accused of domestic abuse can no longer own a gun. Note, not convicted of a crime or sentenced, merely accused. I have long felt that if we cannot trust a person to own a gun, we cannot trust that person to be at large unsupervised.

I have some "common sense" rules. If you can vote, you can own anything an infantryman carries, or has carried. Yes, that means machineguns. It likely means bazookas and the smaller mortars. I think the government would become quite tame if it knew that.

I would like to remind you that the people whose behavior led to machineguns being registered in the first place were a class of criminal created by the government by the passage of the 18th amendment. That amendment was put in place by a group of people who wanted alcohol to be banned "for our own good". Prohibition on alcohol is gone, but those criminals remain. Yaaaay gubmint!

There will be more to this as I think of it. This is a draft.