Suicides involving firearms are fatal 85% of the time, pills less than 3%.

[Orrex]

41. If the gun is registered to you, then you are responsible for it, aren't you now?

Why not simply pass a law requiring me to report when my guns are stolen? You would then have a description with a serial number. If it shows up at crime scene then you can call me, investigate, and return my property.

Why not simply pass a law that the barn door must be locked after the horse gets out?

Without a national registry, how would we confirm serial numbers? You could report any numbers at all and thereafter file an insurance claim for the theft, and who could prevent it? You could jot down the serial number from one of my guns. Who would know?

Unless you're requiring gun owners to submit their serial numbers to a national registry, of course.

As for your other question - considering that there are hundreds of millions of unregistered guns in America, explain to me just how registering guns will eliminate all those evils you list? There will be a vast pool of weapons circulating that will ensure that criminals will have all the guns they want.

Those guns should be registered, obviously. And if an unregistered gun is identified, then it should be seized and destroyed.

If you were to sell your 24 registered guns to convicted felons and those guns are later discovered by law enforcement or used in a crime, then you would be criminally liable for having sold them. At the very least you'd be an accessory before the fact for having provided material assistance in the commission of a crime. Or if you claim that the guns were stolen, then you are criminally liable for having failed to report them as stolen. And you can't possibly claim that you didn't know they were stolen, because responsible gun owners are responsible enough to keep track of their firearms, of course.

What you're saying is that, because we as a society have been stupid and irresponsible about gun ownership in the past, we should therefore continue to be stupid and irresponsible about gun ownership forever.