Posted on 06/16/2014 5:08:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
Stopping gun violence is complicated.
Requiring routine background checks before all gun purchases is not.
A check to see if a person can legally purchase a gun is quick and simple. Licensed gun sellers in Wisconsin routinely and responsibly screen buyers to stop more than 1,000 criminals annually from buying weapons.
Yet a glaring loophole allows many gun sellers at gun shows and online to skip this sensible safeguard.
That’s wrong and can’t be justified. Yet it continues — sometimes with deadly consequences — because too many politicians lack the courage to do the right thing.
The National Rifle Association fights consistent gun screenings. Yet the vast majority of the public — as well as most NRA members — favor universal background checks for all gun purchases.
(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...
So they are still going after private sales eh
When did the communist libs start speaking for "most NRA members"?
Here’s an idea, if the current background checks aren’t working then lets do away with them.
Save the money for mental health treatment.
A glaring loophole allows allows people to meet and exchange drugs for money, which could be prevented by requiring police presence at all gatherings of two or more people. Another glaring loophole allows people to publish whatever they want (subject to only a few restrictions) without first obtaining government approval for the material.
Why is the SERIAL NUMBER and MODEL NUMBER needed for a background check? It seems to me that you should ONLY check the person and be done with it. Nothing is gained with serial and model numbers,UNLESS someone is trying to build up a database for later confiscation (which, of course, our government denies they want to do)
“to stop more than 1,000 criminals annually from buying weapons.”
1. False — if the preamble is even accurate, it only stopped them from buying firearms legally. Illegal firearms, knives, cars still easily obtained.
2. And what was done to the 1,000 “criminals”? How many were arrested? Prosecuted? Convicted/Jailed? Probation/parole revoked? Can we guess few or none? Maybe start with enforcing laws that exist.
Every time I see "common sence" and "sensible" in relation to firearms I know that the author is a full blown statist, freedom hating, government worshiping, bed wetting, anti-gun fanatic. Anti-gunners don't believe in limited government. They worship government and limiting its powers is the equivalent of blasphemy to them.
Anti gunners cannot be bargained with - they have nothing to offer. They cannot be reasoned with - their hatred of guns outside the hands of the government's JBTs is NOT based on reason, but on their faith in government; it's a religious thing with them not a reasoned position.
Anti-gunners don't feel pity - your family killed by home invaders because you were disarmed? Not a problem as long as no police were hurt.
Anti-gunners don't feel remorse. To the contrary, when they've managed to pass a restriction on our rights they feel briefly elation, but then like a serial murderer the high passes and they look for the next incremental step to enslaving us.
Anti-gunners don't feel fear because they have nothing to fear. If their legislation doesn't pass, so what? They haven't lost anything. In fact if all gun control were rescinded today they wouldn't have lost anything. And since we gun owners are law abiding, they don't have to fear getting their doors kicked in in the night and being killed for their beliefs, unlike what they'd like their JBTs to do to us.
And finally they never quit. They're constantly working to destroy our rights and enslave us. You can't appease them they're relentless. There are only three possible end states
They use “gun show loophole” like Democrats and GOPe uses “immigration reform” for Amnesty.
Once broken down into the real components, neither are true.
Great synopsis of the situation, especially for a Monday morning.
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Let's have a chat after an ID is required to vote in any election in the US.
Liberals label all their ideas “smart” because otherwise you wouldn’t know it.
Haha, their argument doesn’t stand up with what’s near and dear to them..
Any police officer coming upon such a felon having the right to search the felon for weapons. Any two felons found in each other's company are immediately arrested for parole violation.
Thankx!
In 1976 New Yorkers were required to register their "semiautomatic rifles" With the promise* that the registration list would NEVER be used for confiscation. Fast forward to the '90s and David Dinkins. Semiautos were declared "contraband" Love that word - means that the government's goons can have it but you can't - and guess what? NYers were given something like three months to 1 prove that they got rid of them, turn theom over to police, prove that they were rendered inoperable, of face confiscation. about a dozen of the 1800 or so owners chose to ignore the law and thanks to the registrations lists, those ever heroic defenders of liberty, the NYC police came and arrested those who hadn't complied (7 or 8 some of the dozen were paperwork errors) and CONFISCATED THEIR firearms. Stroke of the pen instant criminal "kinda cool" < /sarcasm>
Seven or eight doesn't sound like all that many, but ONE would be too many.
*Politicians promises - only a Statist or a New Yorker would believe them.
Have you bought a gun lately?
The ATF Form 4473 question 27 and 28 already asks for model and serial number.
They are working on it. One piece at a time.....
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