Colorado passes Gun Control Laws

[Lemur]

Why is a gun registry a huge problem?

It's a slippery slope thing (technically non causa pro causa, if anyone cares), which is what most NRA rhetoric is based upon.

There is nothing unconstitutional about a gun registry; indeed, of the first three words of the Second Amendment, two are "well-ordered," which would seem to cover things like registries and drills and so forth. However, Second Amendment absolutists believe that a registry could lead to confiscation some day. Based on this hypothetical, they're rabidly anti-registry, and nobody in the mainstream is much inclined to challenge this non sequitur (literally "it does not follow").

What ICSD is painting as an inevitable reality is in fact a slippery slope leading to a different slippery slope. Background checks could (in theory) lead to a registry, which could (in theory) lead to confiscation. So you need not one but two hypothetical acts of dictatorship to make the Barackalypse occur.

What's particularly deceitful about this NRA talking point is that the background check bill, as initially written, made it a Federal crime to create a registry. So ICSD and the other NRA hysterics are objecting to a hypothetical of a hypothetical that would require breaking the law they object to.

Does this seem irrational and insane? That's because it is. Toss moderation, reason, game theory, and common sense out the window. Also toss evidence, history, and empiricism. Just take a long, deep bath in paranoid hypotheticals, watch a little Glenn Beck, and suddenly it all makes sense.