Ability

Over and over with human nature it comes up.

If someone can, they surely will.

If someone has, it will surely be done again.

What you have to do is deny them the opportunity.

Maybe it's because I am raising a retarded child that makes dealing with government so clear.

You cannot just tell him no.  You have to bar him from access.

There are padlocks on the refrigerator.  Food is portioned out in appropriate sizes and no more.

Government is the same way.  If you let them have access, they are going to use that access.  If it matters whom is administering a program, you've lost.

The hated LBJ even summed it up well, "If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed," and "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

If there is no list of how many guns there are, and who owns them; then no one can take that list and come get them.  It will be impossible.

Recording when a person buys a gun from a dealer is such a list.  It presently fails to be registration because there's no record made if that person sells to a non-dealer.

There is a record of every single firearm made by a licensed manufacturer and where it was shipped right up until it was purchased from a licensed dealer.

Should they decide they want to start registering guns, they will damn sure follow that paper trail and check the residence of the listed buyer for that gun.  What will you say if that day comes?

Some of us have self registered.  We're proud of our purchases and we post pictures.  Should they ever ban evol ghuns I expect a call from officer unfriendly enquiring as to the whereabouts of my purple AR (among others).

It would be far better if there was no paper trail.  It would be far better if it were understood that no government entity, anywhere, has any authority or power to know how many guns there are and who has them, beyond the small number said entities are allowed by the citizenry.

See?  Government has it backwards (again).