Baltimore Implements Roach Motel Registration

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has signed a key component of her crime-fighting plan.

The bill requires gun offenders to register their address every six months.

Looks like the Baltimore Social Registry is finally ready to roll out. Who could be against that? After all, it's not like any one of us deciding that a threat outweighed legal consequences would ever be caught up in such a net.

That the baddest of the bad will ignore this, or that it is unenforceable outside Sheila's jurisdiction is hardly the point. The point is, guns and gun owners can now be vilified and associated with the scummiest dregs of society--perverts all.

Vermin.

What they need now is some way to put serial numbers on list "members." Perhaps some form of arm tattoo, as has been done with "gun criminals" in days gone by?