[mvpel]

FALSE DICHOTOMY. This was NOT the only alternative. The real alternative would have been to REPEAL the waiting period, not make it painless or substitute an "instant background check".

Okay, and what were the odds that your so-called "alternative" of repealing the waiting period, along with the entire background check infrastructure, would have gotten through both the House and the Senate and then been signed into effect by President Clinton in 1997?

Give me a fricking break, man.

If you want to bash the NRA, base it on something real, rather than fantasyland.

[from occupied ga]

Okay, and what were the odds that your so-called "alternative" of repealing the waiting period, along with the entire background check infrastructure

As long as you and the NRA have that attitude none. You don't get what you don't strive for. The antis know this well and NEVER stop pushing. The NRA is content to go along and only give them some of what they want rather than reverse the trend and take stuff back