It's just not gonna happen. It's an scenario that would never work in America.

Not immediately, but in time it would cramp their style and crimp their supply. Meanwhile it really doesn't hurt law-abiding citizens, does it?

It's cliche, but everything you propose, no matter how reasonable it sounds, only has a negative effect on the law abiding gun owners. Sure, there will be some deterrence on the lawless, but we already have a certain level of gun control (not enough for the extreme left, too much for the extreme right), and yet we still have murders and other violent crimes carried out with guns every day. That's why I feel...as is the case with most lawlessness in our society....that the answer lies not in passing more laws, but in swifter and more severe punishment of the lawbreakers.

Meanwhile....no. But the elements in our society that would take away our freedoms are patient. They don't go for everything they want all at once. We can't allow them a first step, because a second will surely follow.

Does your drivers license and car registration have a negative effect on you? I don't see how it does. One should have to earn the right to own weapons in America by being licensed. Something ain't right when Mexican crime syndicates can get military weaponry here easier than anywhere else in the hemisphere.

Ahh. The Domino Theory. When has that ever worked out as feared.

Apples and oranges. Driving and car ownership are not constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Red, why is it that you want to make American citizens earn a right they're already guaranteed by the Constitution, and at the same time freely hand out Constitutional protections to foreigners suspected of trying to kill Americans on the battlefield? (you have said in this here forum that the Gitmo prisoners should be dealt with in the American court system, right?)

Agreed, but instead of taking away the rights of American citizens, let's tighten border security and stop the military weaponry from leaving the country. Tighter border security is something we all agree is necessary already, right?

Without researching.....probably never, unless someone wants to point out Nazi Germany or any other as an example of a society that let itself gradually be corrupted into an oppressive dictatorship, but I won't.:lol:

Anyway, I see your point. My belief is, why allow your guaranteed freedom to be partially taken away? We both know that rights come with responsibilities. For those that don't take the responsibility to heart, well, we're supposed to ways of dealing with that without infringing on the law-abiding.