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October 3, 2002
How to answer the Toughest Question
by Richard W. Stevens
Editor, The Bill of Rights Sentinel
Here's the question:
"Why do you so strongly oppose the government's registering firearms and
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?"
It's a tough question because it draws on the everyday example of
automobiles, and most everybody seems to accept state regulation of cars and
drivers. Many pro-gun people have real trouble answering this question, and
some among us have even surrendered the point.
Logic and history prove that gun registration and owner licensing pose grave
threats to life and liberty. But we need to deliver a powerful answer to the
question without the social studies lesson. The answer needs to be a fast
effective sound bite.
So we are offering the following three-reason package below. This formula is
the "long version." If you need to give a quicker answer, then just give the
first sentence of each reason. You can deliver the "long version" in 45
seconds - and the "short version" answer in less than 30 seconds.
Three Reasons in a Nutshell
Here is the answer you can give:
(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.
How to Use the Answer
This answer is only 120 words at the most, so you can memorize it. It's
pretty easy to memorize because it makes perfect sense.
Why memorize it? Because, when you are challenged, you need to seize the
initiative. A snappy but profound quick answer gives no opportunity for
interruptions. Speed and power are critically important when the questioner
is hostile or you are being interviewed for radio or television. You don't
want to have to think of the answer - you need to deliver it immediately.
After you give the "long version" answer, you can turn the tables on the
questioner. Ask this zinger question:
"Now that you know the truth about registration and licensing, how can you
support those ideas?"
Dealing With The Objections
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."
Your answer: "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."
Your answer: "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?"
Your answer: "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?"
* * *
What happens when the government holds monopoly power over firearms? How do
licensing and registration schemes kill? Read the bone-chilling facts in
Death by "Gun Control": The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament ($16.95 postage
paid). Order the book by calling (800) 869-1884 or clicking on
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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This is not Germany in the 1930s. And registration of guns had nothing
to do with them murdering Jews. They round up Jews whether they had
guns or not.

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Ed Huntress