{"id":2996,"date":"2002-11-05T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2002-11-05T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2002-11-05T10:15:21","slug":"vote-early-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"VOTE EARLY & OFTEN…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had our pre-election dinner last night (turkey and beef enchiladas mole), where a bunch of us get together and argue our way through the ballot. Nothing really changed my mind on any of the votes, except that a friend who is an elementary school teacher explained that she was voting against 47 (school bonds), because she considers the various administrations she works for totally inept. So I voted \u0093no\u0094 on that.
\nDuring dessert, she & I started talking about gun registration. She is a true moderate; doesn\u0092t have a lot of issues with people owning guns, would prefer that they had some training and that they were checked for lunacy and stupidity. But she and I kept going back and forth on registration. She couldn\u0092t see why I had a problem with it, and when I told her about the various go-rounds in which well-meaning SKS and other \u0091bad gun\u0092 owners in CA had registered, had their then-legal ownership retroactively made illegal, and then were targeted for confiscation under threat of felony conviction because they had registered<\/u>, she began to understand my concern. She still favors it, though.
\nI wish I\u0092d sent her over to this<\/a> from the Instapundit, for an example of how a) ineffective and b) intrusive this becomes.
\nI believe that there ought to be a way for the authorities to know if a designated individual has guns, and it would be handy to know what guns s\/he has. This would be useful if someone was convicted of a crime, or was under a restraining order, etc. etc.
\nBut until some way can be determined to keep them from being used in small-scale fishing expeditions like these, not to mention large-scale confiscations, I\u0092ll oppose centralized registration.
\nDon’t forget to vote; drag someone else and get them to vote, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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