[supercat]

What is wrong with instant backround checks?

Well, for starters:

1. How can you ensure that the government does not use the background checks to keep track of who is purchasing weapons?
2. How can you ensure that the background checks can never result, whether by design or accident, in denials for people who have a Second-Amendment right to purchase a firearm?
3. If background checks are not required for private sales, that creates such a huge 'loophole' as to render the checks almost meaningless; if they are required for private sales, that would in at least some cases create a major burden thereon.
4. Background checks put the onus on law-abiding citizens instead of on criminals. If the government insists upon allowing out in public people who would be dangerous if allowed to purchase firearms, it should equip such people with monitoring anklets or other such devices. A "background check" could be reduced to checking a purchaser's face against a current "WANTED" poster, and checking the legs for anklets.

What's good about background checks?

[neverhillorat]

Sorry, but I`m not convinced. I do think that the backround check has taken much of the arguement away from the anti`s which was the idea in the first place.

[Elsie]

What's good about background checks?

They make the trembling Lib's FEEL better!