Let's strip away the politics of this. The distrust of government. The disfunction of government. "Our trampled rights and freedoms" For a sec. I'll narrow the registration to one narrow use case: say you get Joe hobbiest I'm-a-pro drone pilot doing his worst to ignore every law and common sense practice in his flying and he wrecks. Causing damage or injury. That FCC reg is the only thing that might be evidence in locating the perpetrator. Before you can shoot holes thru my scenario (he can not register, he can not put his FCC id on the raft, etc). It is still one piece that has the POTENTIAL to tie the bad act to the person. And I'm sure everyone EVERYONE On here can agree that the bad actors are the ones alone ruining things in the eyes of the media, public and government.
Take the flip side. If you strip out all the politics and feelings about the government, what harm is there in the registration? None. It's no different than my registering my vehicle. It has zero impact on your ability to fly.
The reality, as another forum member mentioned, drones are becoming ubiquitous. It's a fact. They are more technically challenging to operate than a car and yet anyone can just buy one and launch it into 3D space with zero instruction.
The registration I see as a way to tie ownership to an operator for a worst case scenario. Just because there's a mistrust of government or its effectiveness doesn't mean there should be anarchy.
Edit: I know I came close to conflating the issues of registration vs 107 etc. I was trying to address just registration.
Take the flip side. If you strip out all the politics and feelings about the government, what harm is there in the registration? None. It's no different than my registering my vehicle. It has zero impact on your ability to fly.
The reality, as another forum member mentioned, drones are becoming ubiquitous. It's a fact. They are more technically challenging to operate than a car and yet anyone can just buy one and launch it into 3D space with zero instruction.
The registration I see as a way to tie ownership to an operator for a worst case scenario. Just because there's a mistrust of government or its effectiveness doesn't mean there should be anarchy.
Edit: I know I came close to conflating the issues of registration vs 107 etc. I was trying to address just registration.