ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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...better if the rules nationwide involved a freaking background check instead.

Yeah . . . that worked out great in SC and Louisiana.

Tennessee, too.

And Chicago and Baltimore and Philly . . .

I can't bring to mind all the cases you're referring too but in the most recent case, didn't the guy buy his gun at a pawnshop sans a background check? There will ALWAYS be ways around these things but I don't think people anywhere ought to legally purchase a weapon (at a pawn shop, gun show or online) without a background check. And I think it would have to be nationwide to have even a small impact. It's not like it's difficult to drive to some other state to buy the gun of your choice and bring it home.

Yeah, yeah, bad guys and mentally ill people could/would find ways to get a gun but I don't think we need to make it so easy and legal for them to do so. Make them steal their guns or arrange for someone to buy it for them.

On the flip side, why bother having gun shops conduct a background check if they aren't required across the board? It's not really "fair" to those that are required to conduct them.