Posted on 01/22/2011 7:39:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WITH the Tucson shootings still in the news, there’s a good chance President Obama will discuss gun control in his speech. How he does it could mean progress or stalemate on the issue.
Over the last few weeks, gun-control advocates have focused on banning the type of high-capacity clips that the police say was used by the man accused in the Tucson shootings, Jared Loughner. But even timely efforts to ban particular kinds of weapons face long odds politically, and historically have less success in reducing crime.
To get something done with a skeptical Congress, the president ought to shift the focus from the instruments of violence to the perpetrators by calling for a substantial increase in the number of people who are listed by the F.B.I. as barred from purchasing guns.
This year, the government will conduct about 14 million background checks on prospective firearm buyers. Only about 200,000, or just over 1 percent, will be denied permission to buy.
What’s more, while the F.B.I. database, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, has nearly 6.5 million records of prohibited buyers, two-thirds are simply the names of undocumented immigrants, who as a group constitute just 1 percent of those who were denied a gun....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As I’ve seen on other blogs, one of the purposes of guns is to protect us from an oppressive government, having them regulate them is a conflict of interest.
Slowly ratchet down on who can buy guns.
1st, the people who had a pot charge years ago.
Then, people who take any depression or anxiety medicine. (Insane)
Then people who drink alcohol.
Then people who owe taxes.
Then people with ANY misdemeanors.
Finally, anyone with a traffic ticket -- after all, if you cannot drive responsibly, you CLEARLY don't have the sense to own a gun.
Stop them at the 1st step. Today.
They’re using the Goldilocks Method... “that gun’s too big(.50),can shoot down jets!” or it’s “too small and is easily concealed”.
Hence the only gun that’s “just right” is the one in possession of The State.
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