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[was Graywolf]

Mikkj - gun control

First, I get SO tired of this "WELL, you can't trust THEM to give the truth!", kind of debating. I suppose the only study YOU would accept would be done by the NRA? The STUDY wasn't done by Time magazine, they just reported it. Or, do you think they mis-reported the facts of the study?

They didn't report any facts, they reported that facts existed, and failed to back it up with anything more than conjecture based on thier own opinion.

Secondly registration CAN serve a purpose. If a crime is commited with a gun, and the gun discarded, they can trace the gun back to the owner.

Why do people who support registration always make statements that assume that people commiting crimes with guns do so with guns they aquired legally, when nothing could be farther than the truth? The gun can be traced back to the person who last registered it legally. Period. Since the majority of the time that is not going to be the person who committed a crime with the gun, it proves useless as a crime control tool.

But, then, that's part of your problem with it, isn't it? We have to take training, and a test, to get a license to drive a car. We also have to register our cars. I assure you that confiscation of our cars would be far more damaging to our democracy than confiscation of our guns would be - and both are as likely.

You're kidding, right? Car bans as likely as gun bans? That's ludicrous.