Guns: Here’s the Big Problem With Background Checks
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From Senator Ted Cruz on the New York terror attack:
“I would note in New York we saw a terror attack just this week with a truck. Evil is evil is evil, and will use the weaponry that is available.”
Did he just shoot himself in the foot there? To a degree. This Kelley bastard could have used a bomb or a truck and killed a lot of people, but guns are easier and especially when there are either no background checks or the database hasn’t been kept up and when the rifle he had came with a 30-round magazine.
It’s not just the lack of national background checks, it’s the absence of enforcement that would keep them up to date. This is a chronic problem and one that you don’t hear through all the shouting and screaming. No law is going to work by itself.
As you’ve heard, this raging criminal’s criminal and violent background wasn’t available for anyone doing a background check. Problems are complex, yet we berate anyone suggesting complex responses.
It’s OUR problem and WE are part of it. Stop passing the buck to scapegoats. Stop screaming and start thinking.
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Tak this morning about that infamous”assault weapon ban” and I say infamous because it was so flawed it was useless. That’s a major problem with hyperbolic language and when the most passionate know little but inchoate fear.
Rep on TV this morning says we should ban 30 round mags and also “assault rifles” the way we used to. I’m sure he couldn’t describe that, because he thinks those are two different things. I’m sure he doesn’t know that the ban only banned magazines made after a certain date and there were millions and millions and millions of “pre-ban” mags and weapons sitting in warehouses all legal to sell. I think the ban was primarily against weapons with plastic stocks and bayonet lugs made offshore only.
The ban had no discernible effect and I fear that whatever we do in the name of limiting firepower in private hands will be similarly riddled with enough loopholes for an army to shoot through. I’ve said it over and over – Swiss army knives and cub scout uniforms are “military style” The problem is firepower not appearance.
And Americans have had the legal right to weapons since 1789 and had them long before that.
I long for the days when the only people who were allowed to carry guns in America were cops. I long for the days when AR-15’s and other military style rifles were banned for civilian use. I long for the days when there was common sense in the land.
One way. We need to add certain things to the list of “destructive weapons” like guns with 30 round magazines or bigger. 8 or 10 are fine for hunting or target shooting or the like. Personally I’m fine with flintlocks. 20th century and later really isn’t my thing.
With you there! Got a couple of muskets n a pistol along with French epee bayonets on the wall…love the history in them!
Me too, even a blunderbuss, some Bronze age battle axes and projectile points too.
It’s easy to buy a car or a chain saw. The object is to make it impossible for people like Killer Kelly and other violent people to buy one. I’m assuming you don’t have a criminal record and are not involved in criminal enterprises or activities. The law guarantees a right and there are not nearly enough votes to overturn that. We have to learn to live with the law and it can be done. The impediments are on both sides and have to do with money and now the law does not put limits on that money or where it comes from.
Most people support background checks, but most people are ill informed and misinformed whether they love , fear or hate guns. Fake news and dirty money are much to easy to acquire.
It’s easy to get a drivers license, by the way – way too easy.
Hadn’t thought of it that way. See your point.
Mind you…I’d be too worried about accidentally shooting myself to buy a gun 😛
Background checks the only way then I suppose
I believe it would be quite easy for me to purchase a gun in America.
Need I say more?