&gt;We gun owners would also fight it very hard, since we&#x27;d see it as a prelude to rolling this out for us.<p>Arguments for the legitimacy of gun ownership tend to focus on deterrence and self-defense. This makes no difference at all in the deterrence scenario, and legitimate self-defense has no reason to be secret or anonymous.<p>When the gun community argues for a Constitutional right to <i>commit murder and get away with it</i>, then maybe we can finally stop taking it seriously.