http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/...mton_shootings
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Wong had a New York state pistol permit, first obtained in 1997, with the two handguns used in the shooting registered to it.
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So here we see another prime example of where gun control, which promises to reduce violent crime, fails in it's stated objective. How many times have we heard, "We need to get all handguns registered in this nation"? Well, why? What good will that do? Criminals won't register. As a matter of fact, it's unconstitutional to force them to register and this has already been decided by the United States Supreme Court. Since they are prohibited from possessing any firearms, forcing them to register a firearm would force them to admit to committing a felony, which would violate their 5th amendment rights about not being compelled to testify against themselves. Neat, huh?
This guy had a pistol permit and he registered both handguns on that permit. The law seems to have been followed to a "T", right up until the point he decided it was time to go "gonzo" and shoot up the joint. No law can stop that.
What would happen if we got national registration of handguns and crime didn't go down? This is exactly the situation in Canada, by the way. The call would go out for a ban on handguns, just as the Mayor of Toronto has done. Since they would have all of the handguns registered, it would be easy for confiscation to follow. They'd just send you a "nice" letter in the mail, documenting the consequences for not showing up with your "registered" handgun(s) within a week and handing them over to the government. There is a slippery slope, make no mistake about it. Nancy Pelosi has just gone public saying, that as a result of all of these recent mass murders, we need gun registration. Someone should tell her that this guy did register his handguns in accordance with New York laws. Failure will, again, fail to persuade the true anti gun rights folks out there that gun control is worthless when it comes to reducing violent crimes. They'll never learn. They don't want to learn.