CA - Gun Registration will lead to confiscation
California is back on the firearm registration bandwagon. There is a bill being passed about that would require all semi-automatic rifles that can accept a magazine to be registered with the state.
The proponents of this proposed act all have the same message: If you are not a criminal, what do you have to worry about?
That is crippled response to the important question of, why register?
Who does registration help? What purpose does it serve? What, possible, results could registration create? Does it help the individual whom does the registration or does it help the government? What is the purpose of registration? Does the purpose of registration give citizens better understanding and protection against gun violence or does it simply help Government?
We can examine this closely, because, like all States in the Union, California has enforced laws that require individuals to register their motor vehicles.
Does the registration of a motor vehicle do anything of value for the individual? No*. The individual must shell out hard earned moneys based on the purchase cost of the vehicle in order to have the state agree to have the vehicle registered. The individual must, by law, ensure that the vehicle is registered every year. Must ensure that the vehicle shows this registration. If an individual does not register by the paying of a tax (conveniently labeled a fee), then the state has the authority to not offer the registration to the vehicle owner, and a non-registered vehicle can be impounded and sold without a word from the owner. In fact this is the case for any type of licensing in the state of California. An expired fishing license could not only end you with a fine, but perhaps with your property impounded, sold, and you in jail.
Yet, the proponents of firearm registration have the audacity to insinuate that in this one rare case they will not be imposing fines and taxes and impounds on our property? That this one type of item registration is not subject to levy and taxation, not subject to the legal due-right (their idea of equality not mine) of a government to impound items you failed to excise? You see, all registrations, from cars to fishing, to businesses, give the authoritative powers the right to confiscate the objects involved. That's the way it has always been and the way government will always be.
They'll do what they do with all registrations and licensing, they will require an administrative fee be paid every year. They might even come up with a nice emotional reason, like any of these:
You name your emotional poison and they'll dip their fingers into your heart and pull. They'll tell you it requires a team of people to do all this paperwork. They'll tell you that they hired 6000 new state workers (and be proud of creating jobs and pat you on the back for helping those poor unemployed) to manage the DOJ firearm registrations. You, the firearm owner, will of course have to pay for our new government. And then, like all other licensing, when you miss a payment on your individually taxed firearms and all of your 30 guns will be individually valued and taxed, they'll be at your door. They won't just take the one that you failed to license, they'll clutch whatever they can get their hands on and then make you fight to get it back, knowing full well the legal cost of getting your property back will stagger you. I know this first hand, for I had a car stolen and the legal cost of getting it back prohibited me from doing so. The shear power of a mountain of red-tape.
The state is good at this game, after all, it is their game. They invented it. It is their rules, that is, once we allow them to set up the rules. So the only sane answer is to not let them set up the rules. Don't let them cheat us out of our Natural Right to self preservation.
Reject registrations, especially firearms registrations. Registrations are an illegal act that is designed to limit the value of items you put into your Estate, but adding cost to the item and thus decreasing your ability to add items into your estate. Registrations are a crime.
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* The only valid argument I've ever heard for vehicle registration is that it keeps dangerous vehicles off the road. My friend was assuming vehicles that are broken to the point of making them dangerous. The problem with this argument is that non-broken, or normally functioning vehicles are just as dangerous and outnumber, significantly, vehicles that have failed to get registered. I have had vehicles that I would consider dangerously under maintained get registration, I've seen friends do this as well. I doubt that such vehicles are really that obscure and unregistered. The registration, in California anyway, does not validate that the car works correctly, that it has brakes or blinkers or even seats, it simply indicates that the car passed a smog test and the individual paid the fee. So logically speaking, a cars potential to cause harm is not even weighed as a factor when a vehicle is registered, only that it doesn't pollute California's already brown air. The only thing vehicle registration does is create revenue for the state.
The proponents of this proposed act all have the same message: If you are not a criminal, what do you have to worry about?
That is crippled response to the important question of, why register?
Who does registration help? What purpose does it serve? What, possible, results could registration create? Does it help the individual whom does the registration or does it help the government? What is the purpose of registration? Does the purpose of registration give citizens better understanding and protection against gun violence or does it simply help Government?
We can examine this closely, because, like all States in the Union, California has enforced laws that require individuals to register their motor vehicles.
Does the registration of a motor vehicle do anything of value for the individual? No*. The individual must shell out hard earned moneys based on the purchase cost of the vehicle in order to have the state agree to have the vehicle registered. The individual must, by law, ensure that the vehicle is registered every year. Must ensure that the vehicle shows this registration. If an individual does not register by the paying of a tax (conveniently labeled a fee), then the state has the authority to not offer the registration to the vehicle owner, and a non-registered vehicle can be impounded and sold without a word from the owner. In fact this is the case for any type of licensing in the state of California. An expired fishing license could not only end you with a fine, but perhaps with your property impounded, sold, and you in jail.
Yet, the proponents of firearm registration have the audacity to insinuate that in this one rare case they will not be imposing fines and taxes and impounds on our property? That this one type of item registration is not subject to levy and taxation, not subject to the legal due-right (their idea of equality not mine) of a government to impound items you failed to excise? You see, all registrations, from cars to fishing, to businesses, give the authoritative powers the right to confiscate the objects involved. That's the way it has always been and the way government will always be.
They'll do what they do with all registrations and licensing, they will require an administrative fee be paid every year. They might even come up with a nice emotional reason, like any of these:
- The funds will be used to teach children about firearm safety
- The funds will be used to help victims of mass shootings
- The funds will be used to help battered women.
- The funds will be used in the inner cities where gun violence is high.
You name your emotional poison and they'll dip their fingers into your heart and pull. They'll tell you it requires a team of people to do all this paperwork. They'll tell you that they hired 6000 new state workers (and be proud of creating jobs and pat you on the back for helping those poor unemployed) to manage the DOJ firearm registrations. You, the firearm owner, will of course have to pay for our new government. And then, like all other licensing, when you miss a payment on your individually taxed firearms and all of your 30 guns will be individually valued and taxed, they'll be at your door. They won't just take the one that you failed to license, they'll clutch whatever they can get their hands on and then make you fight to get it back, knowing full well the legal cost of getting your property back will stagger you. I know this first hand, for I had a car stolen and the legal cost of getting it back prohibited me from doing so. The shear power of a mountain of red-tape.
The state is good at this game, after all, it is their game. They invented it. It is their rules, that is, once we allow them to set up the rules. So the only sane answer is to not let them set up the rules. Don't let them cheat us out of our Natural Right to self preservation.
Reject registrations, especially firearms registrations. Registrations are an illegal act that is designed to limit the value of items you put into your Estate, but adding cost to the item and thus decreasing your ability to add items into your estate. Registrations are a crime.
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* The only valid argument I've ever heard for vehicle registration is that it keeps dangerous vehicles off the road. My friend was assuming vehicles that are broken to the point of making them dangerous. The problem with this argument is that non-broken, or normally functioning vehicles are just as dangerous and outnumber, significantly, vehicles that have failed to get registered. I have had vehicles that I would consider dangerously under maintained get registration, I've seen friends do this as well. I doubt that such vehicles are really that obscure and unregistered. The registration, in California anyway, does not validate that the car works correctly, that it has brakes or blinkers or even seats, it simply indicates that the car passed a smog test and the individual paid the fee. So logically speaking, a cars potential to cause harm is not even weighed as a factor when a vehicle is registered, only that it doesn't pollute California's already brown air. The only thing vehicle registration does is create revenue for the state.
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