Posted on 04/08/2018 1:14:54 PM PDT by rogerantone1
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised last month to “swiftly and aggressively prosecute” prohibited people who try to buy guns. He even has a slogan for his approach, calling them “Lie-and-Try” prosecutions.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Short version:
“From 2006 to 2015, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) denied gun purchases by 826,144 people. But all those denials led to only 488 prosecutions in the whole ten-year period — fewer than 50 a year. Less than half of these ended in convictions.”
Once again, the Left promises good results for government infringement of rights - yet grossly fails to follow through when they have positive identification & legal proof of “gun crimes” in progress. Upwards of a million illegal attempts to purchase, with positive on-file ID of the perpetrator, yet the conviction rate is 0.03%? REALLY? WTFOMGBBQ!
The Left’s only interest in “background checks” is hindering purchase, not actual deterrent/punishment. Expanding background checks is viewed by the Left as an insurmountable obstacle, not a “ok, you’re good to go” - so they want to expand ‘em as much as possible, to reduce gun ownership however possible.
So we have another in a long line of “reasonable regulations are BS”: >800,000 documented cases of prohibited purchases attempted, near zero prosecutions. More proof they want to disarm the good by hassling, while actual crimes allegedly concerned about are flatly ignored a la “broken windows”.
And with such an inaccurate background check system, notifying local authorities of a prohibited purchase is worse than useless. A new Senate bill by Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Chris Coons (D-DE) proposes to do just that. But unless the problem of false positives is solved, this will just cause police to be deluged with many tens of thousands of false alerts each year.
Didn’t the fix already get funded? I like “Lie-and-Try”, if they would follow through and prosecute. Does the lack of prosecution mean these were honest attempts to buy and not crimes or that they simply didn’t think these were important enough to pursue? How many of the 800K actually went on to commit crimes, or new crimes? Violent crimes using guns?
The article answers all of those questions. It isn’t very long.
So the question is, what is the rate of false positives?
Read the article.
Thanks rogerantone1.
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