Police: Ex-Student Sold Gun in Pa. School Shooting

[Baalzamon]

70. I don't agree with that line of reasoning.

If you don't register, then you become a criminal. If you are caught, you go to jail. It's a simple as that. And I happen to not be completely against the idea of registration, I just have a problem with then having the government deciding to make some of those guns illegal to own and then demanding them back (or the magazines as those are expensive as well).

So that line of reasoning just allows the gun control side to say "well I guess you aren't much of a law-abiding gun owner after all". And I agree there.

However, when they start talking about not being so law-abiding if one doesn't turn in guns that have become illegal over night, that is where I disagree with them. I have an analogy for that one. If the chimp, while he was in office, had congress pass a law that said everyone had to get on their knees on Mondays and say a prayer to him, would you obey it? The obvious answer to that is no freaking way! But that would make you a criminal, yes? Yeah, technically, but it's an obvious illegal law so it should not be obeyed.

That's the way I feel about any registration that is combined with then making guns that are registered illegal and asking to turn those guns in. You paid for those guns with your money in a legal manner, they are your property, so ignoring that law is ok because it is obviously unconstitutional; just as would be being forced to praise the chimp.