Registered owners???? There is no gun registration in the state of OK
Everytime you fill out a 4473, that's registration folks. This is a clear cut case for that argument.
but I will not worry about my gun rights when some cold blooded killer is loose and has done this to two young girls from my community.
When exactly do you start to worry about them?
No event how horrible it may be is no excuse to give up your rights. The more this is done, and the more people give up their liberties makes it that much easier to accept enslaving the people.
It always starts with, Its no big deal, or we are just trying to catch a killer of young girls.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well meaning, but without understanding.
Justice Louis Brandeis, "Olmstead v. US", 1928
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke, speech at Buckinghamshire, 1784
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Madison
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.
W. Somerset Maugham