People who REFUSE to register their guns claiming that they don't want anyone to KNOW they have guns are the same ones who go around bragging about all the guns they have.

It's easy to find out who owns guns.......most of the time you just need to read bumper stickers.

did some checking.. most states do not require you to register your guns. even handguns.. there are exceptions of course.. so not registering your gun does not make you a criminal.. transactions are kept for 20 years..

Scrog, I've never owned a gun & probably never will, but I can appreciate the importance of an armed populace/militia ready to take on an abusive government. The folks in places like Autralia & Great Britain have abrogated their guns & rights, thus leaving themselves at the mercy and protection of their local authorities. I believe that Germany disarmed their populace prior to the Nazi takeover...

I also believe that right to bear arms states like Texas have fewer gun- related crimes.

Hi Bloody. I don't think that even if each and every one of us had an arsonal of AK's, MP's, and Dragunovs, we would stand up for even a single day against our government. So I have to disagree that guns will protect us from them. Maybe 200 years ago, but not now. How do you protect your house from a drone? Birdshot?

All those countries that have gun control seem to be doing just fine. Just ask them.

I'm not asking for gun control, just better laws to keep them registered and in check.

the first thing Hitler did to gun owners...was make them register the guns.

After that, he took them away.

After that, the persecuted groups could not defend themselves.

You may be right about our will to fight the Government & then there's new technology that's been displayed in the middle east...

I don't have a dog in this fight either way but I think that the less info the Government has on us, the safer we are.

"Right to carry" is great. People should feel free to carry their registered firearms.

I'm going to totally disregard the Hitler comment, because I've made a promise to myself to only digress to the intellectual conversing and cognitive abilities of a 9th grader when I'm loaded and feeling stupid.

^so you'll be back in a couple hours?

If people want to register their guns and carry them I have not issue with that. Unfortunately the majority of dudes I see carrying openly really don't look very "cool."

I mean some tough, cool, dude with a gun in public does make me feel safe.

The nerds and geeks that I see open carrying lately all look like just that...someone that needs to carry a gun in public to satisfy some other shortcoming. Some dude with far too many Scorsese DVD's in his collection, a nice video game setup, and an itch to feel important. I smell trouble around those weird guys. Nothing funnier and scarier to me than a roundish forty-something in a polo shirt with a bluetooth and a pistol. Can anyone say, "Get a life" for me?

I clock out at 4:20, and the stupidity will then begin, yes.

C99, you must be living in some kind of bubble, to think that if everyone registered their guns it would lesson the number of gun related crimes! And you sir are assuming that every soldier is braindead enough to simply follow directions to assault innocent citizens on behalf of our government as you related to in #24. And if I may, if "cool" is your only parameter for those who should carry, please go back wherever the hell you came from. Do you even read what your writing?

prolly not

Crime Statistics > Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 (most recent) by state

# 1 District of Columbia: 31.2

# 2 Alaska: 20

# 3 Louisiana: 19.5

# 4 Wyoming: 18.8

# 5 Arizona: 18

= 6 Nevada: 17.3

= 6 Mississippi: 17.3

# 8 New Mexico: 16.6

# 9 Arkansas: 16.3

# 10 Alabama: 16.2

# 11 Tennessee: 15.4

# 12 West Virginia: 14.7

# 13 Montana: 14.5

# 14 South Carolina: 13.8

# 15 North Carolina: 13.6

# 16 Georgia: 13.4

= 17 Kentucky: 13.1

= 17 Oklahoma: 13.1

= 19 Missouri: 12.3

= 19 Idaho: 12.3

# 21 Indiana: 11.7

= 22 Colorado: 11.5

= 22 Maryland: 11.5

= 24 Florida: 11.1

= 24 Virginia: 11.1

# 26 Texas: 11

# 27 Michigan: 10.9

# 28 Oregon: 10.5

# 29 Pennsylvania: 9.9

# 30 California: 9.8

= 31 Illinois: 9.7

= 31 Kansas: 9.7

= 31 Utah: 9.7

# 34 Vermont: 9.6

= 35 Ohio: 9.3

= 35 Washington: 9.3

= 37 Delaware: 9.1

= 37 North Dakota: 9.1

= 39 Wisconsin: 8.1

= 39 Nebraska: 8.1

# 41 South Dakota: 7.9

# 42 Iowa: 6.7

# 43 Maine: 6.5

# 44 Minnesota: 6

# 45 New Hampshire: 5.8

= 46 Rhode Island: 5.1

= 46 New York: 5.1

# 48 New Jersey: 4.9

# 49 Connecticut: 4.3

# 50 Massachusetts: 3.1

# 51 Hawaii: 2.8

Okay TMCLT, let's discuss this:

I do feel (and statistics will back it up) that registered guns will lower gun related crimes in the inner city (please don't paraphrase me and leave out my meaning. That's a Fox News tactic and I don't like it). Not today, not tomorrow, but over time. Making it harder to sell a gun for cash in times of need prevents guns from finding their way to criminals. If you feel differently please tell me why. I'm interested.

I'm not assuming that soldiers would attack Americans. I'm not the one hoarding guns in order to protect myself from them. Please re-read my posts. I find that notion silly.

Where did I say that "cool" is the only parameter for someone to carry a gun? I believe I said that I do see a great deal of guys carrying them for that very reason though. I open carried in Alaska for years. Not to be cool either, but rather for self-preservation. Fat dude in a polo and dockers pants with a bluetooth in one ear, cellphone/pda on his belt, a combover, and a desire to impress does not need an open carry gun. If that's anyone you know, tell them to get a mohawk. It will attract even more attention than the shiny **** in a holster they are showing off.

Again, let me state this. I am NOT for gun control, I am a lifetime member of the NRA, I have a soft spot in my heart for paramilitary weapons, and I own guns, responsibly.

Why all the hostility?

Cause I think your full of it...........K?

#36 Quite so...

In other words, you just found yourself in a discussion with someone that you cannot talk to because you don't understand the rationale behind cognative thought and you have decided to call that person a name and then leave?

How about next time just leave and don't spill the hatred? The world would be a better place if more folks would just shut their yap.

For the record, I am FOR gun control.

I don't think criminals, crazies, or children should be able to buy guns.

I don't feel overly oppressed by any of the gun control laws on the books in MY state (PA).

By "inner city", we mean black people, right?