Guns should be registered like cars.

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53. How is it that guns are different from cars?

Both are devices, that if used unsafely, can result in severe injuries and deaths. (It's just that in the case of firearms, unsafe usage is frequently intentional.)

That's why cars get registered, and have to have tags on them with unique identifiers at all times. That's why drivers have to get a license, and have to pass a test to demonstrate they know how to operate a car safely. That's why there are countless rules on how you're allowed to drive your car - speed limits, requirements to obey traffic signals, prohibitions on driving while impaired by alcohol or other chemicals, requirements to carry insurance, etc.

But you suggest that guns be registered, that people who use weapons be required to carry licenses, pass tests to prove they can operate a firearm safely, and get background checks to keep out the criminals and psychopaths, all of the sudden the gun-bunnies come out crying FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

Give me a fucking break. Having weapons should not be a right equivalent to freedom of speech or right to equality under the law. Ownership and possession of weapons should be a privilege that you earn, and that can be revoked in the case of fuckups.

We're not in the 18th century anymore.