Flawed Idea of Gun Registration & 347 Million Plus Firearms

By Greg Camp

by Greg Camp ; Opinion
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The problem here is that the claim is an example of the fallacy of equivocation, since not all registries are the same. I’ll acknowledge that the stated purpose of a vehicle registration is to discourage theft, but that doesn’t appear to work, changes in security technology to prevent stealing being instead the thing that keeps cars where they belong, though it should also be noted that car theft has declined along with drops in all types of crime in this country. The registration of vehicles seems to be aimed at raising funds for various state bureaucracies.

Voter registration, by contrast, serves the purpose of verifying the residence of the person in question in the district. And the opponents of voter ID laws point out that attempts to tighten laws regulating the casting of ballots are an effort at suppressing the vote of targeted groups.

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