What is the difference between a car and a gun when it comes to having them registered and and licensed?

Some? Almost all do and for good reason. Why should they be registered like cars?

Money. Vehicle registration allows for continuing revenue for the state. Gun registration is not required everywhere, and it serves no purpose.

Here is an aritcle. See what you think.
https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/gun-advocates-are-right-we-should-compare-guns-to-cars/ I don’t know the site.

Basically, because the authors of the Constitution were not psychic, and could not conceive of a time when it would be almost impossible to be a functioning adult without a vehicle, they did not write an amendment guaranteeing the right of all Americans to have reasonable access to transportation.

They sure did know about guns and rebellion, though.

@flo It’s a ridiculous article. Some of those things are actually in place and the bulk of the rest are simply over the top. The author does not even know the most basic components of a firearm such as the difference between a magazine and ammunition. Absolute garbage. It really helps if someone writing about a subject knows the first thing about it.

@Seek
But the question is not why the authors of the Constitution didn’t address cars.

Did the authors of the Constitution write anything about registering and licencing being mandatory?

And people don’t figjht against registering and licensing their cars.

@ARE_you_kidding_me I don’t know details about guns but my guess is that one doesn’t need to be an expert in guns to know which side to be on when it comes to registering and licensing guns. It’s like needing to know about biology, anatomy, pediatrics etc. (you don’t need to know)for example,, in order to be on the right side of the abortion issue. Something like that.

@flo No, not like that. This line of thinking is why gun laws are already a mess and don’t often make much sense but can impact someones life tremendously. It’s crucial that the details are understood. Fuck, abortion is in the same boat. I’m sure that most of the female population would not want a room full of males without medical degrees legislating about abortion….. yet it happens.

…Not pediatrics, I mean gynoclology

Gun ownership is considered a right. Any attempt to register, license, pr insure a gun is considered to be infringing on that right.

Driving and car ownership is considered a privilege. That is why everyone need to have a driver’s license to drive.

If you don’t like that, support repeal of the Second Amendment.

The gun lobby is far more effective.

People with concealed carry permits are already effectively licensed and registered. Open carry, even when legal, tends to alarm people and so is generally discouraged. That said, @zenvelo and @MollyMcGuire make good points.
In any case, our masses of cars and drivers are registered and licensed and people die on the roads every day.

@flo How do we know that your side is the “right” side of any issue? Surely the mere fact of your adherence isn’t reason enough.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Why do developed countries have police, prisons, judges….Is it a waste?
@zenvelo considered a right. considered a privilege. Should it be considered a right or a privilege though? That’s the question. How can one person finds registering and licensing it interferes with his/her right and another person doesn’t?
@Nullo People know which side is the right side doesn’t mean I adhere to this side or that side.

@flo What point are you trying to make?

@ARE_you_kidding_me You brought up degrees…

degrees?
still don’t get what you are saying

@ARE_you_kidding_me “medical degrees” it says in your post before last.
Should we look around before crossing the street? Do we say “Let’s see what the people who went to traffic school have to say about it”? No. No need to have detailed knowledge about guns or be an ob/gyn etc.

Ok @flo that’s still not making good continuity but in order to have a strong opinion that holds water someone frankly needs to know what they are talking about. Huge and catastrophic mistakes are made when uninformed opinions are applied to actions. You are completely qualified to cross the street, in that case you know what the hell you are doing. That is unless you don’t know about cars or traffic. Not having that bit of information can kill you.

@ARE_you_kidding_me It’s important to know detailed knowlege about guns for other purposes. like to use them, to sell them, to teach the technology about it, if someone wants to show off in a trivia game, .....not when it comes to __“Should we be pro or con registering and licensing our cars?“_

So, let me take your “You are completely qualified to cross the street, in that case you know what the hell you are doing.”
The people who know what they are doing are the ones who go by Guns kill, guns maim therefore I register and license, without having to ask anyone else, same as crossing the street only after looking around.

@flo so apparently I am handicapped in this discussion by the need to make sense.
It really should not have to be explained that when making big decisions about things being properly informed is paramount to making good ones. If ideology ruled decision making and not hard science, facts and consequences then we would still be in the dark ages or possibly extinct.

The people who scream “guns kill” the loudest overwhelmingly don’t usually know the first thing about them except what they have seen in movies or worse they are simply afraid of them. There are numerous nonsensical laws on the books because it simply “Felt good” to the people making them. people who own and at leadt understand the law and guns fon’t know if we need to laugh or cry because some of it is so absurd.

@flo An acerbic response to the idea for your consideration.

@Nullo Would you like to put the quotation with the credit or the url insted that link?

@flo Not particularly. I hate writing on mobile.
The website is a blog, the entry is a collection of existing gun control laws, paraphrased and re-written to apply to cars – to make the points that a) the two are not similar cases, b) there are already scads of regulations, and c) many of those regulations do not make any sense if you know anything about guns. In brief, that gun control laws exist merely to harass decent, law-abiding people.
Hanlon’s Razor suggests that these legislators are ignorant to the point of stupidity, instead of being actually evil.