sancarlos wrote:BSF - I'm not sure you are supporting Johnnie's argument. His last post was in support of the argument AGAINST the new proposed background checks on gun purchases at gun shows and online. You seem to support background checks (as do I.)
I'll group Shirley/Dave in with my response here.
Did you both not watch the last video I posted? I share Colion's point. We BOTH like background checks. Hell, for all the guns I've purchased (8 in total, but I still own 7), every single time a background check was performed. But none of you guys seem to believe that.
What everyone seems to want is a national registry. Name, serial number, store purchased at, state purchased in, vendor name, etc, etc. all to...wait for it...curb crime. All that does is tell Uncle Sam that I own 6 handguns and a shotgun. Why do you need to know this? So you can bump the murder weapon against a store, original owner, friend, relative, etc to place blame? Because that's going to save a life. All it's going to do is make lawyers rich. Giving you all of my info isn't going to stop crime.
Any sane and rational gun owner wants screening for people. We don't want assholes with mental disabilities owning and operating gun as much as you do. And, honestly, probably more so because WE are grouped in by the oversensitive liberals who call things "assault weapons" and "magazine clips" with those freeks.
This reminds me of the unnecessary overreaction by military commanders when one dude in a squadron of a few hundred gets a DUI. Suddenly, all members in the squadron who either knew the dude or didn't are called into work, in blues, on a moment's notice because the commander "has to show that something is being done about the issue. 1 DUI is 1 too many." So what happens? Everyone suffers. Everyone. The dude who fucked up is never put on full blast, his name is kept quiet. But everyone else had their day ruined by him and for what? To show that people are getting tough on the matter? All you did was piss everyone off to save your ass.
All of the legislation even the leftiest leftie in all the land could orgasm himself to death with and be the most restrictive could be put in place and crime will still happen. 10 round mags. A national registry. Gun insurance. State operated gun stores. No gun shows. Hell, the government buys all manufacturers. Nothing will prevent gun violence. But hey...as long as you
think you're preventing gun violence, it works, right? Spare me.
Unless you build a time machine and go back to the day after RFK was murdered and convince everyone to tone down the manufacturing and distribution of guns, then it doesn't matter. No one fucking sees that. No one talks about it. Guns exist and they kill people. Cars exist and they kill people. People exist and they kill people. This discussion goes in circles and nothing changes.