No, my friend, it's not the same. Because gun registration laws actually do prevent crime regardless of criminals ignoring them. But this? This will give the mutant supremacists all the ammunition to sway more people to their side that they could possibly want. People who lose their jobs, see their family members harassed, get blamed for crimes simply because they could have done it with their power... they will lose faith in humanity, and they will start to hate and resent humans as much as you hate mutants. And instead of coming here, where mutants are trained to fight mutant criminals, they will go to those criminals. Not because they're evil monsters - honestly, I thought I used to be brainwashed - but because that's what human beings do when they have nowhere else to go.

[He tilts his head, his face softening somewhat.]

Just like you. You've got nowhere to go now, do you? You're not welcome anywhere. And so you cling to what you've always believed - I suppose because believing yourself not to be utterly monstrous would mean admitting the rest of us have some semblance of humanity, and doesn't that turn your world right around. I'm sorry, truly. It's a pretty awful situation to be in.