jpo183
Ultimate Member
If it was just a normal background check I would be ok with it. The problem is it never is normal and I do not trust the government.
I could have voted yes.
However, I can't trust them.
Universal background checks CAN BE done without creating a registry, but I do not trust them to "do the right thing".
Look at MD, supposedly data is destroyed and not kept, yet we know they have a registry built from background check data.
No trust == no background checks
I agree, if it's one of the seasons with Ziva on it - she can check my background any day!!
I'd be OK with a NICS check for all purchases. But only if there's no records kept. I would prefer none, but lets face it, guns are making it into the wrong hands. Not all of them by theft. We suffer every time one gets used in a crime. If we don't come up with a good solution, the antis will come up with a bad one! Anybody hear about what just happened in Maryland?
The big elephant in the room is that criminals don't get background checks.
It's a false premise.
Post number 3 is the starting point. What is a universal back round check? It's clear by the responses here that it means different things to different people.
No background checks, no federal paperwork, repeal all federal firearm code. None has ever shown any reduction in crime, most are sporadically enforced. Between 2% and 3% of the population have felony convictions on their record, instead of criminalizing the rights of all citizens, we should make it as easy as possible for the other 97% to be armed and as dangerous as possible to criminals big and small. You also have the matter that more than 100 million citizens were murdered by their own government in the last 100 years, all were subject to citizen firearms bans enacted by these regimes. It has been shown repeatedly that it is near impossible to keep criminals from obtaining contraband, even in prison with a total ban on most everything, and complete authoritarian control, although the simple answer is that if a criminal is so dangerous that that they are likely to hurt people if they have access to a firearm, they should stay in prison.