jaykellogg
Absent Comrade
Ar anyone who has been paying attention knows there is a push right now for additional gun control. The anti gun people lay in wait until some evil person commits an atrocity. This inflames "public opinion" that "something needs to be done" and while they feel the political power is in their court they try and ban something firearm related. One of the pushes right now is the universal background check. This sounds innocent enough, after all we are all aware that there are people who should not be allowed to even handle a loaded gun. However nothing is being done to identify those people. This proposed law would make a federal background check mandatory for all gun sales (and potentially ammo sales). If it were done at the Federal level it would create registration. The concerns I have are 1) if you pass a background check you are identified as a gun owner. That could be used to get a search warrant or perhaps the law would be written to allow the Federal government to "inspect" your guns without a warrent. If you have a FFL they already have that "right". If you own a class III, same here. Obviously, these laws would only apply to law abiding citizens. If a gun is stolen or bought through a straw purchase the records would be missing or in error.
The 2nd concern I have is all the recent atrocities were committed by people we would call crazy. (Insane is a legal term). There is a push back among the medical community regarding identifying crazy people. Several of the recent shooters were able to pass background checks and one stole his mothers legally owned guns.
In summary, why should we responsible gun owners be inconvenienced by a potentially confiscatory gun check that will not catch the folks committing these atrocities? Please remember, the worst school killing in the USA was committed with dynamite in 1927 in Bath, Mi.
Remember of all the gun murders in the USA the least are committed by rifles. More are committed with Shotguns that the Vice President says will not be banned. Handguns are by far the most. Also, in spite of the fact that these kinds of killings are repeated over and over in the news, they are relatively rare.
One of the biggest factors in gun homicides are crack babies growing up without conflict resolution skills and without any empathy for fellow human beings.
Last, the gun homicide rate has been going down in the USA in the last 50 years. Some of the locations with the most restrictive laws have the highest gun homicide rates. Conversely, some of the places with the most lax restrictions have very low homicide rates.
The 2nd concern I have is all the recent atrocities were committed by people we would call crazy. (Insane is a legal term). There is a push back among the medical community regarding identifying crazy people. Several of the recent shooters were able to pass background checks and one stole his mothers legally owned guns.
In summary, why should we responsible gun owners be inconvenienced by a potentially confiscatory gun check that will not catch the folks committing these atrocities? Please remember, the worst school killing in the USA was committed with dynamite in 1927 in Bath, Mi.
Remember of all the gun murders in the USA the least are committed by rifles. More are committed with Shotguns that the Vice President says will not be banned. Handguns are by far the most. Also, in spite of the fact that these kinds of killings are repeated over and over in the news, they are relatively rare.
One of the biggest factors in gun homicides are crack babies growing up without conflict resolution skills and without any empathy for fellow human beings.
Last, the gun homicide rate has been going down in the USA in the last 50 years. Some of the locations with the most restrictive laws have the highest gun homicide rates. Conversely, some of the places with the most lax restrictions have very low homicide rates.
