Are you willing?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

No. But you dont seem keen on wanting to rid yourself of regulation of firearms, right? To simply say "anyone who wants a gun can own one no questions asked". Theres a line, although fine, between regulation and banning. The american People have spoken and it doesn't look as though your praised assault weapons are going anywhere. Even after a knee-jerk "ban on assault rifles" after a horrific incident, the bill to ban assault rifles was ultimately cut down until all it did was try to close the gun show loophole, which IMO is absolutely required. Otherwise what is the point of having background checks and licenses if you just circumvent the system by buying at gun shows.

We've already demonstrated the uproar that would happen in the event of an assault rifle ban. But the NRA is getting up in arms over the closing over the gun show loophole. And frankly that's ridiculous, the gun show loophole should absolutely be closed, or else whats the point of having all these regulations if you just go around most of it.

FYI the gun show "loophole" is a falsehood in nearly every single state the state laws require that a background check be performed at gun shows only handful of states do not have this requirement and even in those local laws in many cases does require a BG check.The only loophole to waiting periods and background checks is via private sales.

The underlying problem is the violence not the guns.Until a reasonable way to solve this issue is generated nothing is going to change.People ignore by and large violent crimes that occur with weapons other than firearms.There are more homicides by stabbing in the US than any other method yet you do not hear anyone wanting to ban knifes and edged weapons do you?

This kid in Texas told the cops that he had fantasized about stabbing people and cutting their faces of so he could wear them as masks since he was a small kid.In this case even if there where no guns available it would have had no effect on the end result.It also shows that a person cam have severe mental illness and hide it for many years.


The entire problem with the background check is that it will only keep a person that is a registered criminal or a person that has been deemed mentally unfit by a judge from legally purchasing a firearm.

So in the end it really will not have any effect on either criminals or crazy people that have not been deemed unfit from acquiring a firearm.The background "expansion" should offend both pro and anti gun folks.

The reason that gun owners precive the extension as threat is because they know that it is BS and that in truth is is nothing but a baby step to further stricter controls.People that dislike firearms think that no one should own them period and of course dislike anything that does not do exactly that.

Personally I have libertarian leanings and think that by and large people should do what they want to do as long as they are not harming others.At the same time I do not think that a person that dislikes firearms should try to keep a law abiding person from owning them.My view is that rights should be allowed to all humans at birth I do not give a flying "ducK" if the nation I live in allows them or not they will not take away my rights any of them.