06-18-2013, 08:33 AM
HOTD, I hear you and mostly agree with you, it is a very disappointing state of affairs that we can not trust our politicians to do the right thing. The "Universal Background Checks" would have been a good thing IF they had not been tied to all the other things that had nothing to do with them. I think everyone that buys a gun from a dealer should go through a BC, there should be a database out there that has "Undesirables" in it. I also don't think people should be selling guns out of the trunk of their car at a gun show avoiding the entry fees and checks, at best that looks bad and gives anti gun folks ammunition. At worst it provides a source for undesirables to obtain guns and avoid the law.
The question is How to accomplish that? This last bill definitely was not the way to do it, and it is far harder to get something back once its lost, so passing it "just to get something done" is a very bad idea. As usual it was an over reach by grandstanding politicians and was rushed through in order to ride the wave of public outrage. What should have done to meet their stated goals is build a database of crazy folks and criminals and then require all commercial sales of firearms to go through that, attach penalties to the circumvention of the lawful checks and then fund that operation.
The "Assault Weapon Ban" as it was written was a joke and still is. Assault weapons are fully automatic or selectable, period. Just because the stock folds up, or a pistol grip or a detachable magazine or even a high capacity magazine does not make it an assault weapon or more deadly. The public is already prohibited from owning fully automatic weapons and should be IMO.
Its not the weapons, its the criminals and the nuts that are the problem and yet, our politicians do not seem to be able to figure that out. Why do we always read about some guy with 72 arrests, 14 felony convictions and he is out on the street?
My views have been pretty clear in here, I don't think every snowflake is precious. Death Row should be a very short stay. Crazy folks should be locked away somewhere and kept away from the rest of us, irresponsible gun owners should pay.
The question is How to accomplish that? This last bill definitely was not the way to do it, and it is far harder to get something back once its lost, so passing it "just to get something done" is a very bad idea. As usual it was an over reach by grandstanding politicians and was rushed through in order to ride the wave of public outrage. What should have done to meet their stated goals is build a database of crazy folks and criminals and then require all commercial sales of firearms to go through that, attach penalties to the circumvention of the lawful checks and then fund that operation.
The "Assault Weapon Ban" as it was written was a joke and still is. Assault weapons are fully automatic or selectable, period. Just because the stock folds up, or a pistol grip or a detachable magazine or even a high capacity magazine does not make it an assault weapon or more deadly. The public is already prohibited from owning fully automatic weapons and should be IMO.
Its not the weapons, its the criminals and the nuts that are the problem and yet, our politicians do not seem to be able to figure that out. Why do we always read about some guy with 72 arrests, 14 felony convictions and he is out on the street?
My views have been pretty clear in here, I don't think every snowflake is precious. Death Row should be a very short stay. Crazy folks should be locked away somewhere and kept away from the rest of us, irresponsible gun owners should pay.