Yeah, ‘revamping’ is just a peachy idea. Let’s have the government that considers returning veterans, pro-lifers, and tea partiers to be potential terrorists ‘revamp’ the background check process. That’s one heck of a brilliant idea right there. I see where you get your user name.
You said in your nice little FreepMail to me that I don’t know you. Oh, but I do know you. You were a fervent Rudy Giulliani supporter who assured us all that his anti-gun past was behind him. And now, you’re here trying to ‘save us all’ from some non-existent problem of gun range suicides by doing background checks on everyone who wants to rent a gun. And to top it all off, you’re using the liberal tactic of telling everyone who questions your idea that they must be for guns in the hands of crazy people.
I know exactly who and what you are. It’s ‘common-sense regulation’, you’ll say. You’ll tell us you ‘have no problem’ with guns, yet you seem to want to make it more difficult for us to have or use them. On this particular thread, you even make the laughable assertion that you are a gun owner yourself who would ‘feel safer on the range’ if there was a background check.
I don’t know about any of the rest of my fellow FReepers, but I’ve never felt unsafe on a gun range in my life. In fact, I feel a hell of a lot safer there than I do in a ‘gun free school zone’.
What would make ME feel safer is if people like you would just mind your own damn business and leave our constitutional rights alone. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED is pretty clear language.
“you even make the laughable assertion that you are a gun owner yourself”
Actually, I own four guns now. Got plenty of ammo too. I was at the range on Thursday evening. To give you an idea how nuts your assertion that a gun owner would not have my views actually is, consider that my views are right in line with the NRA’s policy of doing commonsense stuff to prevent felons and mental cases from having guns. The NRA wrote the law on that, in fact. So are you telling me that the NRA consists entirely of leftwing nuts who don’t own guns?
Well said perfect storm, if I could I would post the two hands clapping for your great statement.