Sunday, March 22, 2009

This Week's Gun Myth

Myth: Guns should be registered and licensed like cars.

Fact: You do not need a license to buy a car. You can buy as many as you want and drive them
all you like on your own property without a license.

Fact: Cars are registered because they are (a) sources of tax revenue, (b) objects of fraud in some transactions, and (c) significant theft targets. Thus we ask the government to track them.

Fact: There is no constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear automobiles, and thus they
are subject to greater regulation than guns.

Fact: There are more guns in the U.S. than cars (228,000,000 guns and 207,754,000
automobiles). Yet you are 31 times more likely to be accidentally killed by a car than a gun,
according to the National Safety Council ... despite cars having been registered and licensed
for almost 100 years.

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