With all the talk

[burf]

46. No, I didn't say that.

But, I doubt that it would be an effective tool. How many shootings are done by criminals who under existing law are barred from gun ownership in the first place? Are they going to register their firearm with law enforcement? Probably not.

So, we cause the law abiding gunowner to jump through another hoop to comply with another feel good law that does little if anything to prevent crime. Then when we find out the program doesn't work, we pass another law under the guise of "protect the public" or "for the children" because the previous laws didn't work. Wash, rinse, repeat. All the while, the rhetoric becomes more heated and the criminals keep doing what they are doing. Reminds me of the Einstein's definition of insanity.

BTW, what ever happened to the old program of locking up repeat offenders? The recidivism rate in this country is insane, somewhere around 70% depending on the source. I remember a program called "three strikes" from years ago. But that seemed to whither on the vine so to speak when the media came out with stories of third strikers going to jail for stealing a pizza or some other nonsense.