As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I've decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a "me-too" provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site . Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about -- far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the ...
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(Oh, never mind the woosh sound. It's the black helicopter overhead.)
What legitimate purpose would mandatory registration serve that justifies such a flagrant intrusion on our right to privacy?
guns are rarely left behind & recovered by police at crime scenes except in the following exceptional circumstances: they have been used in a shooting and are either untraceable, or were intentionally left by the criminal (or planted by a crooked cop) to implicate a 3rd party; or the person possessing the gun is dead or in custody. so the argument that registration will help trace guns used in crimes back to the criminals doesn't hold much water.
and unlike drivers, persons carrying and using guns are not forced to display a license plate that can be read from orbit, so any argument that registration will help police use information obtained from witnesses to trace guns back to criminals is equally specious.
So, exactly what "compelling state interest" do you fans of registration want to use as a pretext to justify violating the rights of gun owners?
Other than aiding with confiscation, exactly what legitimate purpose does registration serve?
According to data and research from essay tool many people have the erroneous belief that if someone wants to commit suicide he/she will find a way. Nothing could be further from the truth. Persons contemplating suicide are usually victims of brain diseases like bipolar disorder or severe depression. In moments of maximum weakness they seek the most certain way to end their unbearable pain. Guns provide the most certain means of committing suicide. Most other methods are haphazardly effective and often leave the person worse off in their brain and the other parts of their body and not dead. Truly, a worst of all possible outcomes. I believe the number one focus of gun control should be to break the link between guns and suicide. I offer no magic solution, only a suggestion about priorities for gun regulation.