"Some say the 22 kills more people than any other round"
Who says that? Certaintly no one around here, if you go by the SD threads out there. And bolt rifle in 223 is high powered? What does that make 30-06, God-like? I especially love the bit about the 7.62x54R being his "favorited" with no explanation whatsoever (but you know it's cuz is bad, right?).
The only way we can truly be safe and prevent further gun violence is to ban civilian ownership of all guns.
And there you have it; the core of this nutter's paranoid delusion. I'd love to hear his theories on how a lack of guns somehow allowed man to kill man before their invention, or how a ban would keep him from getting hit by a bus or being thrown before a train.
This mentality is what has bankrupted all decadent societies since the dawn of time; if we can just build enough monuments to our hubris, we can live --forever!
Reading on...
"The very first thing we need is national registry. We need to know where the guns are, and who has them."
Problem 1: Neither the "who," "where," or registry have anything to do with eachother, so this would fail to get guns off the streets, whether from law-abiding folks or not. Cataloguing all ATF 4473's would be impossible since many are destroyed through accident or neglect each year (faded ink, anyone?).
The word "need" appears 15 times total; 6 in this one paragraph. Obviously this "first step" is in fact the linch-pin of all these not-so-devious plans. Stop 'em here and they're sunk.
"make private sales illegal. "
Problem 2: illegal private sales do nothing but create a black market, since govt. cannot physically prevent a item from
literally changing hands in exchange for money, gift, or barter. Only the law-abiding would comply.
"make it super easy to do"
This is actually the most dangerous aspect of any plan, since gunowners are just as lazy as the average bear, and will choose the easy path while it lasts.
"Perhaps over, the internet."
How often would that little nugget get hacked/leaked, do you wonder?
"So remember those ATF form 4473s? Those record every firearm sale, going back twenty years (
wrong. excludes private sales). And those have to be surrendered to the ATF on demand. So, we get those logbooks, and cross reference the names and addresses with the new national registry (
this guy just loves to be watched over by national registries *cough* clostet-fascist*cough*). Since most NRA types own two or (many) more guns, we can get an idea of who properly registered their guns and who didn't (
by nationalizing the NRA address list, from the sounds of it)."
The author is simply trolling past this point (incredibly obvious by the number of replies he makes in the discussion--trolls always hang around their thread more than normal folks), but the stuff up till now is basically verbattim anti-gun dogma. Know who/what/where has guns. National databases and background checks. Centralize the 4473 transfer data. Limit mobility/commerce to discourage legal ownership.
And at the end of the day, it all depends on the registration at the front end . Now that we know the weak spot, stay vigiilant for it (anyone calling for registration must be immediately be pounced upon as a Confiscationist, a single-word term I feel appropriately sums up these clowns.
If you know the readership of Daily Kos, you know the idea of a fascist, police state would not fly there.
If you think Socialism and Fascism aren't the exact same thing, I'd suggest examining historical governments of both ideologies and making a list of practical differences in their function. Stalin's and Hitler's governments were the same breed of beast, which is why they got along so well initially (and why they didn't, ultimately).
TCB
Have you drank the Kool-aid from this site? I don`t think you understood that blogger. Do you also know that Daily Kos is a progressive left leaning liberal website?
