The Million Mom March, an emerging constituency, advocates reasonable gun laws based on registration and accountability. This is an improvement over public health strategies, but the public health strategies still have a pervasive presence. When the politicians speak of solutions they cannot get away from gun safety. The Million Moms' advocacy for registration has not yet defined itself, developed conceptual foundations, and formulated an agenda for effective, consciousness-building legislation. Registration is the only means by which gun ownership can be effectively regulated.
Registration means accountability to public authority.
It means accommodating to the existence of public authority. It means the consent to be governed and accommodating to the fundamental relationship between citizen and state. Citizens, gun owners and non-gunowners alike, are citizens under law and government not individual sovereigns. Accountability to public authority is the one point of policy the armed populace fantasy cannot handle. Registration is the one thing the National Rifle Assocation works hardest to prevent.