Universal background checks equal registering gun owners.
Got a gun? You’re going on a list. The government will KNOW.
Wonder how that newspaper in New York published every gun owners name and home address?
They used the government lists. That’s what a universal gun check collects: Names and addresses.
Now in New York, the bad guys know whose house to go to to get guns. Do you like that, Mr & Mrs Low Information Voter?
Here in Alabama, I can buy a rake from someone without informing the government. I can also buy a chainsaw, a ratchet set, a cordless drill, screwdriver, level, ohmmeter and a cement mixer.
I don't have to tell the government that I did so. In other words, I can buy tools from people so I can use those tools and nobody needs to keep that information in a list, or approve, or anything. It is all up to me and the seller.
The same rules applies to guns. I can buy someone else's guns without anyone knowing. I like that. It's part of what I like to call “Freedom”.
I won't—you heard it here, from me—let some Californian senator or the even the President of the United States take my freedom away from me, just because some lunatic did a horrible thing that I would never, ever do. Where do they get off associating me with that just because some scumbag used a tool I happen to have also?
Nope. Not going to happen. Too many of us down South are committed to our freedom to let folks in Washington DC take it away so they can keep winning elections and live the high life.
Yep, and the next step is confiscation. After all, they'll argue, you don't need an AR15.
As F. Lee Levin says, "It's the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs".