Who kills women with guns?

[NutmegYankee]

49. You only laugh because you yourself wouldn't be subject to the invasion of privacy

Registration is an invasion of privacy quite simply. Guns are household property not subject to taxation or listing to any authority. Registration seeks to force you to divulge you property and to work at all would require a license listing each gun. You now could be potentially taxed on those items, which is automatically a public record visible to all persons. And public knowledge of your expensive property may bring burglary attempts on your home. Some obnoxious people have claimed the guns should keep you safe, but if no one is home, no one could stop a burglary. No safe, whether holding jewelry, or firearms, is unbreakable. Most safes can be cracked in 15 minutes, and that's the high end expensive models used for storing really high priced stuff. Now, if no one knows what you own, the normal thief is going to go for easy stuff that can be turned around quickly and isn't going to bother with drilling a safe.

Registration is based on some people's interpretation of reasonable regulation. That's not unlike the argument by NSA supporters that the 4th only protects you from "unreasonable" search and seizure. Obviously many people do not see registration as reasonable and many don't see Meta Data collection as reasonable. I certainly do not for either. I hold my privacy very dear.

People argue that we register cars, but that is solely to use them on public roads. A fair comparison would be registration of handguns that are carried with a concealed carry permit. I'd say that was fair as long as the records were kept non-public, like DMV records are non-public.