…… licensing gun owners? Every car is registered; every driver is licensed or should be. Cars are important and dangerous. Guns are important and dangerous. So what’s the problem with gun registration and owner licenses?”

That’s easy!
Three Reasons in a Nutshell:

(1) Practically speaking, registration and licensing laws do not affect criminals, they only affect innocent citizens.

(2) Fundamentally speaking, citizens in a free society do not have to get permission from anyone to exercise their right to self-defense, just as they don’t need permission to freely speak or worship. Licensing and registration schemes require citizens to get permission to defend themselves, so those schemes don’t belong in a free society.

(3) Historically speaking, registration and licensing have been part of “gun control” programs that made possible the calculated mass murder of between 70 and 170 million people. Registration and licensing make genocide easier, not harder. I fight against genocide and I don’t want to make genocide easier anywhere in the world.

Now that you know the truth about registration and
licensing, how can you support those ideas?

Objection # 1: “Driving a two-ton car at 60 mph is a privilege, not a right. Owning a lethal weapon should be considered a privilege, too.”

*****Driving a car on tax-funded roads might subject
you to the tax-funded government regulations. Exercising the right to self defense, however, doesn’t depend on tax-funded resources and should never require anybody’s permission.”

Objection # 2: “Gun registration and owner licensing helps police solve crimes, just like the cars’ license plates and the drivers’ licenses.”

****** “License plates and driver’s licenses don’t
prevent any crimes, they only help track suspects after the fact. Serious criminals frequently use stolen cars and plates;
many drive without valid licenses. Likewise, serious criminals will not be licensed and will use unregistered or stolen guns,and the tracking feature is worthless anyway if the cops don’t find the gun.”

Objection #3: “You’re just paranoid; don’t you trust our government to license and register deadly weapons while preserving your right to shoot?”

****Wrong question. The government is supposed to
answer to you and me. Why does the government so distrust the vast majority of decent non-violent firearms owners that it wants to identify and track every owner and every firearm?”