No more. We're done. Not one step further.
Posted on 01/29/2011 7:34:48 AM PST by marktwain
Just 24 hours after the shooting in Tucson, politicians were calling for more gun control. And the drumbeat has continued.
On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for using the information supplied on people's applications to join the military to determine whether they will be banned from buying guns. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promised a new push for renewing at least part of the federal assault weapons ban. The previous week had been filled with calls for everything from gun show regulations to a thousand-foot gun-free zone around politicians.
But while the emotional reaction to a mass shooting is understandable, the fact is that some of the proposals would at best only make people feel better and at worst make them less safe.
Schumer's proposal, for example, would try to pick up criminal activities included in military applications for which there are no criminal convictions. But the military has a good reason to maintain confidentiality when it interviews new recruits: It wants to get the most honest answers it can.
With Schumer's proposed change, new recruits would be more reluctant to tell the military that they'd been smoking marijuana, for example, knowing that any answers they gave could haunt them the rest of their lives, with serious consequences such as being banned for life from being able to own a gun.
And while it would be wonderful if these background checks were able to keep pot smokers, criminals or the insane from getting guns, existing regulations have been extremely ineffective at keeping those prohibiting from buying guns from getting them.
Indeed, the evidence shows that the only people inconvenienced by the Brady Act background checks for gun purchases -- which have been in place since 1994 -- are law-abiding citizens. In fact, over 99.9 percent of
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The net effect of most gun control is that it is directed at law abiding citizens who don’t commit crimes and it means absolutely nothing to the common criminals.
Chuck U and the rest of the gun grabbers know the truth. They don’t care about our safety. They want to disarm us to control us. The 2nd Amendment is about keeping the Government in check not hunting as the Libs want us to believe.
bttt
No more. We're done. Not one step further.
Yesterday 90 million law abiding gun owners didn’t kill anyone.
I've never understood the reasoning behind this kind of thing. Someone does something that is already illegal and these idiot politicians want more laws? WTF? Do they really think if someone is willing to break the laws already on the books, that making more laws will somehow dissuade them from crime? "Oh, I was willing to break 17 laws and commit cold-blooded, pre-meditated murder...but gee, now that it would be breaking 18 laws...I guess I'll just go watch American Idol instead..." {snort}
All these people (all of them) are doing is attempting use a tragic event to further an agenda. An agenda that has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control - of us.
I think it was Lott who said something to the effect of the only thing that usually stops gun crimes is the appearance of another gun.
I put Lugar in the same boat as Dingy Harry the only problem is that Lugar is my Senator.
RATS & RINO’s are waggin the dog IMO. They had the White House, The Senate and the House for the last TWO years and Congress for the last FOUR years and didn’t show any concern or care for such. Their so called compassion etc is total bullsh*t !
My bet is McCarthy & Chuck Yew Schumer bought stock in high capacity magazine companies and are pushin this crap for personal profit. Last time this happened, folks got rich selling the pre ban magazines in the past ban era. 20$ magazines were going for 100$ or more.
“banned from buying guns”
Since the courts have ruled they cannot ban guns. The next step by the gun haters is to ban who can have them. The only goal of the gun haters is to ban the right to bear arms. They could careless how they do it.
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