Posted on 04/14/2013 4:08:18 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Schumer Promises Universal Background Checks Won’t Create A Gun Registry… Then Calls It “Universal Registration”… http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/25/schumer-promises-universal-background-checks-wont-create-a-gun-registry-then-calls-it-universal-registration/ NRA Stand and Fight: Universal Registration http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hKq3967hUgU
You only left out Chief Justice Roberts says it is constitutional.
And that’s that.
If this doesn’t solve the problem, Manchin, why are you pushing “universal background checks”? Come on, Tommey, tell us the real reason you and Manchin came up with this abomination of a bill (with the “help” of Chuck Schumer).
Toomey said he believes his effort has been an uphill climb “because people have misconceptions about what’s in this bill, what it does.”
“For instance, they think there’s this whole new system that we’re created that they have reason to worry about. In fact, we’re just working with an existing system, the existing background system that some states have chosen not to provide much information,” he said. “In the case of the Virginia Tech shooting, for instance, that individual was — had been adjudicated as dangerously mentally ill. The court system in Virginia knew that, but the state never provided the system to the background check, so when he went to buy a gun he passed the test.”
“Under our bill we create greater incentives for states to provide this kind information, so hopefully they will and someone like him might be denied in the future,” Toomey added.
“This is not universal, let me be very clear, this is a criminal and mental background check bill only at gun shows and internet sales,” Manchin said. “…And you know we’re not infringing on people`s rights. We’re just not infringing on their rights. ....”
Yet both tools knew perfectly well what they proposed won't solve anything.
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