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When an anti presents the 'register guns like cars' or 'treat guns the same as cars' BS to me, I just say okay and espouse the following:
1. I can buy as many cars of any type as long as I can afford to do so, so therefore the same should apply to guns.
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I buy as many guns as I can afford. Far more guns than cars. In fact some of my guns cost more than my cars. The only limit I've ever ran into is a money one. Even her in "one handgun a month" VA, you can get around that easy enough.
2. My driver's license is good throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada and so should my carry license.
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Yes it certainly should, but don't compare your carry license to a "shooting license" (Driver's License). I believe there should be a national CCW, but I don't believe that the rights of just shooting should be licensed. That's what linking a driver's license to shooting will do.
A CCW would be more akin to a CDL, and that's a joke for rights and freedom there.
3. There is no waiting period or background check on buying a car, nor should there be on a gun under their proposal.
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You wouldn't need a background check on guns if you had to get it inspected every year and get it re-registered every year. Along with getting your "shooting license" renewed every three or whatever years.
Usually after hearing that, they say 'uhh, sputter, that's not what I mean.'. I say 'What exactly do you mean?'. They say 'cough, sputter, ahem, ......'. In other words, they just want to have gun registration like auto registration without the other things that go along with it, ie the restrictive without the permissive, the negative without the positive.
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Like I said, it's a good tactic. But just don't confuse the prevelance of cars with some form of liberty.
I don't like all the restrictions on cars, and there isn't a specific ammendment in the Constitution about them. It's just that if you start to actually believe that cars and guns should be treated the same, it's time to look at the reality of the two. I could have made the first list of "How about..." about three times longer off the top of my head.
Ross