>>54
"What is wrong with gun licensing?
What is wrong with banning ice cream? What is wrong with licensing baseball bats?
Ok, aside from the fact that you simply shouldn't have to apply for a fucking license from some government bureaucrat to live your life or own something as basic as the means to defend yourself, there is also that little fact of how fucked up the gun licensing systems are in other countries. In canada, among others, you must apply for your gun license from a government authority. If the authority, for whatever reason, thinks you shouldn't have a gun (it could be they just don't want you to have one, or think 'self-defense' isn't a good enough reason), you flat out can't have one.
Aside from that can of worms, there is also the whole point that gun registration is a slippery slope which tends to lead to confiscation.. which is somewhat substantiated by empirical evidence.
There is a difference between background checks and gun licensing/registration. You can have background checks to prevent repeat-offending criminals from owning firearms without registering everyone's guns or licensing them. Just make sure you have a law of some sort that mandates the destruction of records pertaining to who owns guns in a timely manner from the time at which the background check is completed.
"You also have the right to freedom of speech, that doesn't mean you can yell "fire" in a movie theater or "bomb" on an airplane."
If I own the movie theater or the airplane, I certainly can. If someone else or the government does, they dictate what activities can or cannot go on there, clearly.
>>55
Yes. Just this last century, we didn't have bullshit driver's licenses and got along fine without them. We also didn't have gun control laws up until then, and we got along fine without those too.