Reply #118: Licenses are toothless? Eh? [View All]

Do you get an FBI background check when you apply for a driver's license? Are your fingerprints ran through the FBI database?



Guns already have serial numbers- unique identification devices.



As I mentioned in the previous post, most states require licensing of concealed carriers.



Considering that there are some 80m gun owners, and ~375k gun crimes in the US each year, that means that if every crime were perpetrated by a different gun owner (which we know is false), that's still less than half of one percent of all owners. (1 in 213 chance.)

Compare to cars, where your chance of being in any kind of accident are 1 in 10 each year, chances of a serious or fatal accident are 1 in 72 each year. (1 in 4 in your lifetime for serious or fatal.)

There are roughly 10,000 gun homicides per year. So even if we assumed that all 10,000 of them resulted in your 'parentless' scenario (which is patently stupid, since the majority of gun homicide victims are young, urban, black males) that'd still be only a 1 in 8,000 chance.

Why do you want to prop up the insurance industry for a 1 in 8,000 chance? Or is that a way to just make guns more expensive for your average joe, eh? Screw the poor, they should move if they live in a bad neighborhood and need to protect themselves.