If McCain wins, we will never have another conservative candidate. Ever. We will have shown the GOP that being a liberal is the new direction of the nation for everyone. And they will take that message to hear and run More McCains from now on. Yes if Obama wins it will be hell on earth. For 4 years. But in those 4 years, maybe, just maybe, the GOP will learn that becoming Dimocrats will not fly with us. They just might learn that by running as a liberal in the GOP, it's a one way ticket to last place. And that is a good lesson to teach the Republican Party.
I'm trying to think beyond this next 4 years. I don't want to show the entire political spectrum of the US that its OK to run a liberal and a more liberal as the 2 candidates.
What part of "gun registration is irreversible, once they have the record, they have the record" do you not understand?
And 'closing the gun show loophole' IS gun registration.
No, it is NOT. Not by any stretch of the imagination. The "loophole" thing is asinine, but a minor nuisance. It affects a tiny portion of people, private sellers who sell at shows. That's all.
There is no central Canadian-style database of who has what. Obama and the Dem congress would likely shove through a 1986-style registration for ALL semiautomatic firearms you currently own. ALL of them. If you don't register them in a certain period of time, it's ten years in federal prison for each one, just like unregistered MGs.
That would mean that people would have to register and likely have inspected their ENTIRE GUN COLLECTION. To be confiscated as certain models were deemed too scary. Oops, someone used an AK derivative in a mall shooting. Everyone who owns those gets a letter, then a visit if they don't bring them in to be destroyed.
Oh, yes, and once they impose a, say, $100 per gun tax on each one per year, probably with an additional "armory tax" for people who have over half a dozen, that wipes out the collectors. People here have 200+ guns and could never afford the taxes. They'd be finished.
Illinois has already proposed this, a per-gun tax per year. Where Obama is FROM. Disarmament through irreversible attrition.
And, of course, there'd likely be public notice of anyone who had an "armory", available for neighbors to see like sex-offender registries. For the children, of course.
THAT is why Obama is so dangerous. He would go that far in an eyeblink. McCain would not.