{"id":2934,"date":"2002-10-07T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2002-10-07T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2002-10-07T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2002-10-07T23:21:44","slug":"my-secret-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"MY SECRET PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone has a Secret Plan. Admit it, if you were suddenly found to be the secret heir to an unknown branch of royalty, and your words was suddenly about to become law, you\u0092ve got some kind of plan for what you\u0092d do. Ban cars. Ban advertising. Ban fat people. Ban diet food. Make everyone buy a lhasa apso.
\nIn my case, other than the obvious school for wayward supermodels that I\u0092d be forced to open on the island of Catalina, it has involved gun regulation (driver regulation, too, and disarmament, and taxes, but we\u0092ll have to wait on those\u0085).
\nWe have two problems to solve simultaneously.
\nOn one hand, it is useful to carefully screen people who were buying guns to make sure they weren\u0092t criminals, insane, etc. etc., and better still, had some reasonable amount of training. It would even be nice to be able to ballistically test all the guns out there so when a crime was committed, we\u0092d know what gun did it and where it was likely to be, and to require that my guns be tested before I can buy ammo for them or carry them legally.
\nOn the other hand, there are a large group of people in this society who hate guns, and devoutly wish to make them go away\u0085at least except for the ones they get to carry (see CA state Senator \u0091Beretta\u0092 Perata<\/a>) or their bodyguards carry (see Rosie). And these people are close to the levers of power, and it isn\u0092t hard to imagine that one day they\u0092d get those levers, and use them to do whatever they could to take guns away from everyone who wasn\u0092t them.
\nSolving the first problem isn\u0092t too hard (assuming people comply) technically. But you wind up with this big list somewhere of who owns guns and what guns they own.
\nAnd that feeds the potential that people like me see for the second problem, in which Rosie and Sen. \u0091Beretta\u0092 Perata team up to use that Big List to target all the known gun owners out there and forcibly take away their guns.
\nWhich I think, for a variety of reasons, would be a Bad Thing.
\nSo one day I was thinking about this, and then I had to go to traffic school. This is a California institution in which a traffic offender, such as I was once, get their record cleared and insurance premium protected in return for sitting through an eight hour class in traffic laws and traffic safety.
\nIt turned out that there was a class just down the street from where we live.
\nSadly, it wasn\u0092t staffed by supermodels. But it was a private agency licensed by the State to certify that I had been trained.
\nWhich gave me the germ of an idea, which as germs do, grew.
\nWhy does the government have to keep the Big List?
\nWhy can\u0092t I get my certification from a private list-holder, who agrees that under specific conditions, they will release my data to the courts or police, or to a firearms dealer checking on me?
\nSome of them could be open and easy about my data.
\nSome of them could be run by rugged survivalists who keep their data centers under mountains in Idaho with EMP bombs next to the RAID arrays.
\nAll of them would have to be subject to audit, and post an immense bond to assure performance. I\u0092m sure the NRA and other gun-rights organizations would be the first to become registrars, and I\u0092d be happy to have them register me.
\nThey would store ballistic data about my guns, and training data about me, and check me against the government\u0092s \u0091do not sell guns\u0092 list periodically.
\nWhen a crime was committed, the police could submit the ballistics to a query engine that would query all the registrars, and the one holding the registration would return the data.
\nWhen the police got the appropriate warrant, they could check an individual and see what guns they owned.
\nI can envision a time when an attempt is made to change the laws and pry the data out of the registrars, and I\u0092m sure that the registrar that I entrust with my data would be happy to wipe the database before turning it over.
\nIt\u0092s not a perfect solution, or a fully-baked one (unlike the supermodel idea), but it keeps coming back to me as a framework that might allow both sides in this issue to get what they want. As usual, I look forward to people’s responses to see if I’m out of my mind again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone has a Secret Plan. Admit it, if you were suddenly found to be the secret heir to an unknown branch of royalty, and your words was suddenly about to become law, you\u0092ve got some kind of plan for what you\u0092d do. Ban cars. Ban advertising. Ban fat people. Ban diet food. Make everyone buy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}