Just for fun, here’s…
Just for fun, here’s Du Toit specifically addressing gun registration databases (2003-02-26):
One of the basic disadvantages of the State knowing who is armed and who isn’t, is that the State knows who has to be disarmed, if they are to impose any kind of tyranny. …
As we saw earlier in the case of Nazi Germany, by giving the State the ability to identify gun owners, we give the State the ability to disarm us.
This is not a situation of “Trust us, we’ll never do that.†We would be incredibly naïve to fall for that nonsense. In all of history, assumption of government benevolence has been betrayed, sooner or later, and the greater the power of the State, the sooner comes the betrayal.
Gun owners know the underlying motives behind gun registration, and we are not reassured or fooled by the weasel denials of politicians. Licensing and registration constitute infringement, and that’s prohibited by the Second Amendment. Anyway, we know the progression.
Good thing that freedom of speech and association aren’t important rights like gun ownership is, or else we might have a real problem here.
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