This is true Sean,licencing is preferable to banning...but we all know even this doesn't work,plenty of unlicenced car drivers,firearms,televisions etc....all it does is makes it easier for the authorities to start somewere when they start banning things (after Dunblaine,it was all the legitimate gun owners who had to hand in the firearms,the ones all licenced...who payed to be members of gun clubs)or want to snoop...
Try buying a TV out of any shop,they ask for your name and address so they can inform the TV licencing people...
Which country in the world has the most CCTV cameras.....the UK