criminals are not the ony ones who fear background check, criminals to be or ex criminal in hiding? if you duck hunt you are relegated to 3 bullets but congress thinks if you hnt children you can have a 30 clip!Tuesday night, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) declared that an assault weapons ban would not be in the gun law reform package he was planning to bring to the floor for a cloture vote, a move expected by all sides of the debate. But in an surprising twist, Reid also suggested that a provision requiring gun purchasers to undergo background checks could also be excluded from the comprehensive package.Though Reid cited a recent breakdown in bipartisan negotiations over the issue of whether dealers should retain records of background checks, failing to pass the measure would deal a major blow to gun violence prevention efforts. Advocating for universal background checks isn’t just an obvious political winner — it’s absolutely critical to keeping guns out criminal hands and, most importantly, preventing innocent people from dying from gunfire:
i think those on both sides who value guns over American lives should be rained on by email USPS before the right completely privatizes it which translates to pay for your mail probably extra on weekends.
is Reid doing this to try to sure up his re-election being Nevada is a gun state and he too fears NRA influence, once again i blame "we the electorate before Reid.
if yo are a legit gun owner what difference does it make if there is a check to see if you are at risk that also applies to the other millions who might be questionable sitting in your favorite bar strapped and drunk, or the son who's mom bought and AR-15 and failed to secure knowing son was off?
1. Universal background checks deter criminals from purchasing guns. This isn’t really a contestable point. 80 percent of crime guns are purchased through “private” sales, which means from unlicensed dealers at gun shows or other people currently exempted from having to run background checks under federal law. Forcing all sellers to run background checks both deters criminals from buying guns (if they fail the check they can be prosecuted) and prevents a check on sellers that might be inclined to sell to shady characters if they didn’t know they were committing a federal crime. Unsurprisingly, the best available research suggests that “states which do not regulate private gun sales, adopt permit-to-purchase licensing systems, or have gun owner accountability measures, like mandatory reporting of gun thefts, export significantly more guns used by criminals to other states that have constrained the supply of guns for criminals by adopting strict gun sales regulations.” That’s why the law needs to be federal — states with lax background checks are de facto shipping crime guns around the country.
should we allow politicians that will fold at the inplication of "we'll say bad things about you and give you an "F" if you oppose our blood money machine, do you serve the people or the money if the former then fear of not being re-elected shou;ld not matter, if yo can't make a difference on this what will you do the next time big money kills and you are frozen inunder your desk while our money goes to direct deposit?
