“Look, you want to get something done then stop scaring people. Don’t say we’re gonna keep a registry of all these guns,” he said.

Moran interrupted Rove.

“You’re scaring people with this Orewellian sense that black helicopters and the government, if we register guns, are going to confiscate American’s guns. That kind of paranoia” Moran said before being interrupted by Rove.

“With all due respect, it is not paranoia,”Rove said.

Rove challenged Moran’s premise that it’s acceptable to register guns in America because other things are registered on constitutional grounds.

“Do we register books? Do we register other things that are constitutionally protected?” asked Rove.