National registers - bad, national gun owner registers - good!

What can be made of this? Any national register of gun owners will have a negligible effect in reducing crimes involving the use of a firearms in this country. Almost without exception, firearms used in crimes are unlicensed and therefore extremely unlikely to feature on any such database, a fact that I suspect Dr North knows full well. Given the limited practical use of any such database, I find it hard to see why it's delay provokes Dr North to anger.
It seems that a side-effect of being a legal gun owner nowadays is to suffer (albeit ever so slightly) the feeling that you are considered as a criminal-in-waiting. This database, presuming it ever comes into operation, only reinforces this.