The MPAA approach to gun control

[friendly_iconoclast]

It occurred to me last night that gun control orgs act in the same way that the Motion Picture Association of America does-

harass the legal users unmercifully, as if that takes action against the illegal ones. Prime example:

You are Joe or Jane Honest Citizen and pop a DVD into your player to watch a movie. You are forced to sit through an FBI

warning that piracy of the movie you bought legally will be most severely punished.



Yet if you download a torrent illegally, you don't get harassed...and don't get me started on HDCP and the limitations on

DVRs.


Gun control advocates take the same tack: "We can fight illegal gun use by pestering the law-abiding".

[Taverner]

1. And registration has shown to just not work

There are still guns in England. Taking them off the streets did nothing but create a Black Market for them

[spin]

2. Great post. K&R (n/t)

[shadowrider]

3. "We can fight illegal gun use by pestering the law-abiding".

Results in politicians slapping each other on the back and congratulating themselves for a job well done regarding gun control when in fact nothing has been done but to embolden the criminal by handcuffing the honest citizen.

Rinse. Repeat.

[jazzhound]

9. My sig line is my post. NT

[safeinOhio]

4. I'm a legal gun owner and have

never been pestered. I see no restrictive gun laws, currently on the table with any support. Yet, I sure hear a lot of fear promoted here that someone is going to take away my guns.

No one is going to take away your guns if you are a legal non criminal sane person
If you are middle class, no one is going to raise your taxes.
No one is going to ban the Bible.
There are no "death panels".

Any other fears keep you awake at night?

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. Yes. I fear pseudo-progressive gun control advocates will help put the GOP back into power.

One way they might help bring this about is by painting all Second Amendment supporters as some sort of

cartoonish collection of teabagger stereotypes.


I, of course, would never, ever expect to find that sort of classist bigotry on display at a fine website like DU.

Only the Gun Owners of America and their ilk would think that most gun owners are naturally conservative, amirite?

[PavePusher]

7. Blair Holt Act (H.R. 45 - Rep. Bobby Rush). Dianne Fine-stain.

Just to name two items that pop up regularly.

Just because they are not likely to become reality, doesn't mean we let our guard down.

[Euromutt]

6. Peter Serafinowicz wrote a rather good column about that last May

"Why I Steal Movies... Even Ones I'm In" http://gizmodo.com/5539417/why-i-steal-movies-even-ones-im-in

The long and short of the article is that trying to acquire digital content by legitimate means is way more of a hassle than it needs to be, and thus actually fosters "piracy."

Of course, that is where digital media differs from firearms, in that nobody who can acquire a firearm legally is going to go the illegal route so as to avoid getting dicked around by "Firearm Rights Management" software. Still, some parallel might be drawn with resorting to private party sales rather than buying from an FFL.

[Big Al Mac]

8. According to this

www.opencarry.org/register.html

There are seven states and three cities with gun registration and yet nearly every TV show and movie implies that guns have to be registered everywhere you go in the USA.