I don’t support universal background checks. You shouldn’t either. There have been ads played locally about the issue. A supposed hunter and gun owner tells how how much he cherishes his 2nd Amendment rights. How he is handing down those traditions to his son. Then he says he wants universal background checks and tells everyone to urge my Senator, Dean Heller, to support them too. If this wasn’t brought to us by the mayor’s group headed by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, the same mayor that wanted to control his constituent’s soda intake through backdoor regulatory means, I might have listened. Instead, I sent a message to Senator Heller telling him I don’t support expanded background checks.
You see, universal background checks aren’t going to work. The present background checks don’t work. Look, if background checks worked, I’d support them and thousands of people would have been saved because criminals wouldn’t have guns. But they are nothing more than a feel good measure meant to make politicians look as if they are actually doing something and make voters feel safe. Look, here’s why:
- Criminals don’t submit to background checks. I’m sure a few idiots do and get caught, and usually they aren’t even prosecuted for breaking the law. Criminals, and data backs this up, Google it, get their guns from friends and family, on the black market or they steal them.
- And speaking of enforcement (more…)
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