Why not this for a state gun control law to slow gun trafficking?

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59. Do you park your car in your living room?

Will you use it to defend yourself from assault? Car analogies only go so far. Possession of a gun itself does not mean the possessor intends to do harm with it. There is simply nothing about the object itself that would lead us to believe it is inherently dangerous to the general public. It's real hard to declare something contraband that a) is not universally dangerous to the public good and b) potentially a life saving device.

There are what, three hundred million guns in this country? How many of them actually get used in a crime? The last time I looked there were about twelve thousand murders in this country - out of three hundred million guns. And you want to track each and every gun and attach stiff penalties for infractions for that? Nobody minds a bit of inconvenience if it's for the common good, but coming down hard on millions of voters to enforce a law that will do almost nothing to make the country a better place is political suicide.