What Do We Do About Gun Violence After Maine?

One of these days, my dear friends in Gun-control Nation will wake up and actually begin agitating for the only thing which will eliminate or at least reduce the violence caused by guns. And that strategy happens to be the universal registration of all guns. And by the way, although Gun-nut Nation will immediately yell and scream about how universal gun registration is a ‘violation’ of their beloved 2nd Amendment, that happens not to be true.

After all, we have had universal registration of all guns purchased from federally licensed gun dealers since 1968. And this process has been extended to gun transfers between private gun owners in a number of states.

But registration isn’t a background check. I happen to have about 60 guns sitting around my house and the public safety agency in my state has about half of them on file. And my state — Massachusetts — happens to be one of those Communist states which requires all gun transfers to be registered and approved.

Of course, were such a universal registration strategy to be promoted by the gun-control gang, we would immediately hear all the ‘slippery-slope’ bullshit from the other side. So what? Since when should any effective public policy rest on whether the people who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about rant and rave? Have we stopped vaccinating…