If guns don't kill people, people do...?

NRA brainwashing

If you could find a way to background check only criminals and leave the honest people alone, I'd vote for universal background checks in a heartbeat. But if we could do that, then why would we even bother with background checks, those people should be in jail anyways.

The fact is, "universal background checks" creates a de-facto registry of guns and gun owners, which we are strongly against. I know it's old hat, but the saying "the first step to confiscation is registration" does have some merit and historical accuracy behind it.

In reality, the solution to all crime, not just violent crime or gun crime or whatever emotionally charged verbiage is used this week to try to drum up support for one infringement or another of any constitutional right (not just the 2nd, universal background checks are a violation of the 4th Amendment, not the 2nd), is to make people not want to go to jail, and those who do, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a very long time.

Because guys selling their best friend a gun or giving their grandsons a new hunting rifle for Christmas don't want to be committing a felony. And no one wants a database of every legally owned gun in America. If you limited it to background checks when people don't know each other well, you might get somewhere.

I would strongly recommend to the Major of New York City, that he stick to his politics in his so called "Big Apple City" without involving the wrath of the people of this country, it's bad enough that he tells the people how much sugar they can have in their drinks, from the size of soda cups to coffee and try to influence that policy on the rest of this country.

I guess he must think being that he has all that personal money available to him, he can do what he want's maybe he thinks he can buy America, and be our dictator. Gee, I thought Adolf Hitler was dead, guess the Major of New York must be a long lost Cousin of his that he thinks he can do what ever he wants and the ordinary citizen of this country had better go along on what he says or else it's ofto the concentration camps, somebody better wake this guy up and tell him that we have a thing called democracy, and explain to him how it works, and what it stands for, and what the people do if someone messes with it

I think the opposition is saying that a criminal background check is already done when you buy from a licensed dealer. The UBC seeks to include medical records, mental health records, and military record. They want to put all this information into a national database. What about doctor/patient confidentiality? The fear is that the Government will have even more control over our lives, and have access to information that is none of their business.

Because if a person is a convicted felon they are automatically put on a blacklist.

And to the person that said people + guns usually kill people

Where I come from people plus guns usually kill deer or wild boar

What happened the last time there was a background check system in place? Nobody wanted to mess with the paperwork, that's what. As a matter of fact, the very people who ramrodded the system into place were too fvcking lazy to follow through with it.

But how can any law prevent a person from selling a gun to another person? How? How? How?

A registry of gun owners would lead to confiscation.

I think they are assuming that the government will impose really strict criteria on who can and cannot own a gun, which is actually at least somewhat plausible.

Gun collection and jail.