How is requiring background checks for all gun sales taking away your 2nd amendment rights?

Conservatives are using fear-mongering and the "slippery slope" strawman argument to obfuscate the discussion. It's what extremists do when they don't have a logical, reasonable or realistic solution to a problem - they make the debate about something else.

The background checks on the books now are sufficient. And, by the way, are the ones that the so-called "90% of Americans" are for. When you broaden them to what the thankfully failed bill wanted you start getting into who has what gun.

Let's be perfectly clear about something I don't think you realize and something that I think is never communicated well:

The 2cnd Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt, fish or collect. It is squarely about the right for individual citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. If the government keeps track of what type and what location the guns are they can more easily take them from you which would totally take away your power to defend yourself from them.

Sure, you may call me paranoid. But there is enough history to back this up and call you naive.

Not per se, but it does give a future corrupt government a person by person account of everyone who could potentially mount a credible threat to their selfish ambitions.

Let me ask you something as someone who understands freedom like the Germans did pre-Nazi Germany.

Knowing what you know now today, would you have felt comfortable with such a mandate while Hitler was the head of the Nazi party before they started doing all the autocratic and murder and secret police stuff? Would you have supported such a thing then knowing what you know now? Nobody but you would have known then what Hitler and his party planned on doing.

And that's the point, just because you don't see it happening, just because you don't expect it to be right around the corner doesn't mean that it isn't. It can happen at anytime. It's called being vigilant. There's a reason the Christian Bible teaches people to never relax from being vigilant about one's walk with God. It's a never ending battle that one must never grow lazy or complacent about. One moment to rest and ruin will over-take you. It's talking about sin in one's life, but the wisdom holds true for guarding one's freedom as well.

One moment to rest, one moment to relax the watch a little bit, and Pearl Harbor is nearly destroyed, our freedoms very nearly decimated at the Japanese onslaught of our western shores. There's a reason the watch never sleeps. There's a reason 24/7 is the duty roster instead of 8/7 or even 16/7. It's the vigilant, those not succumbed to complacency, those not living by assumption that their freedoms are to be granted that will survive and remain free while the rest are brought to ruin the moment they close their eyes.

Bradley we already have back ground checks will repeating the same thing were already doing going to do to improve safety. What we don't have is if your forced into mental health treatment and found to be mentally ill by a judge that information is not in the system and it should be. So its not the back ground check which we already do its the lack of reporting on those who are mentally ill and the reason why we don't get that information is because federal law prevents it.

We disagree. If we pass alongside with your 'lower back interior the day' argument, you mustn't be allowed to apply the cyber web to precise your 1st substitute evaluations. As to the government and civilians scuffling with - many military workers might rightfully refuse to combat. " i'm no longer asserting heritage tests might've stopped mass shootings or criminals from having weapons - ( then what purpose does yet another regulation serve?) - , notwithstanding it certainly might make it harder - ( for regulation-abiding voters) - to get admission to/stockpile them." What different criminal product has as plenty modern regulation to purchase as a firearm?

Far too many, "gun control," proponents have revealed by word and deed their ultimate objective is the total prohibition of all privately owned firearms for those of us who choose to exercise our Constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms to trust them. After all, it isn't paranoia if they're REALLY out to get you,

The Universal Background Check contains much more than the name implies.

It is a convenient way to compile a list of gun owners for future use

Democrats have already admitted that despite their loss yesterday, they are going to keep pushing to impose their will on on owners of firearms. They would be saying the same thing if they had won, too. It would have been the old "important first step" in a long march to gun confiscation.

it was written in this bill that the cra would be required to turn you down for any mental issue in your history. for instance, If you have anxiety, things that most Americans have.... this would take guns away from about 80% of the people.