[Chainmail]

The "background check" is the crux of the problem: first we were sold on the idea that it would be a minor inconvenience and only "felons and drug users and mental defectives" would be prohibited from owning firearms as is already the case. Then our lovely representatives add some more - the domestic violence/restraining order clause was slipped in in the dead of night - then people who had misdemeanors that would be classed as felonies today were added to the list, so the numbers of unqualifed grew. Now the so-called "instant checks" are taking longer and longer and you as a citizen have no right to know what the delay may be or to see your own record or to change or amend anything.

The Left/antigun forces are using the Brady Bill background check system to expand their power to limit firearms and the people who can possess them. When Obama talks about "improving background checks" he isn't talking about making things more efficient - he's talking about looking for more reasons to deny permission for our own rights.

[LibLieSlayer]

FU sparky... keep your evil hands off my guns.

LLS

[Joe Brower]

The One finally speaks.

We never saw this coming, eh?

[Whats-wrong-with-the-truth]

"Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers after Aurora massacre"

But... If you are a member of a Mexican drug cartel see his man Holder and you'll be dialed in no questions asked.

[LambSlave]

This gun owner doesn’t agree with “sporting purpose” or background checks of any kind. The second amendment was to prevent government tyranny not ensure hunters had access to firearms, so citizens should be able to own any weapon they can afford. Criminals and crazies will always find a way to get guns, all these checks and waiting periods do is incovenience those who play by the rules.

[KeyLargo]

Unbelievable article written by a Chicago ‘Lib-une’ Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, who usually follows the lib party line but this time explains very well how more gun laws will not do anything.

Read at:

Note: The Libune requires subscription to read articles but you can avoid it when the page loads just click ‘Print preview’ and scroll down to read. :)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0726-chapman-20120726,0,7623949.column

[RatRipper]

that a mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily," he said. "These steps shouldn't be controversial. They should be common sense.

In other news, all Tea Party members have been deemed to be "mentally unbalanced". Psychologists are owned by the left. It is one of the places they started, hence, homosexuality is normal and not a disorder.

[Eye of Unk]

I don’t have nor want an AK 47 you lying idiot.

[Dead Corpse]

He must really think we are stupid... Holmes had ONE speeding ticket on his record and nothing else. There is NOTHING, shy of self admission of intent, that would have raised a red flag.

Then again, Romney's lukewarm, milquetoast response that we don't need new laws kinda overlooks the fact that we have tons of gun laws already on the books that shouldn't be there that create these deadly victim disarmament zones.

A pox on both their Houses...

[PapaBear3625]

"A lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities," the president, who has called for reimposing the Assault Weapons Ban, said in a speech to the National Urban League.

Lost in this is the fact that Holmes used an AR-15, not an AK. The Dems don't like AK's being available to regular folk because they're cheaper than AR-15s. This means that a guy who couldn't afford an AR-15 COULD afford to get an AK and keep it on a closet shelf, along with some ammo, just in case of zombie apocalypse.

[Gritty]

How about tighter background checks on Presidents? Let's start with...

...original birth certificate
...college transcripts and records
...passport records
...known connections to criminals and known terrorists
...citizenship and/or naturalization records
...Illinois Bar Association records
...membership in subversive organizations and/or political parties
...radical Muslim affiliations and sympathies

That's just a short list for starters, Mr. Pres__ent. Maybe if somebody (like the media or even the hapless GOP) had done that job in the first place we could have avoided a lot worse criminality, danger, and national destruction than some odd weirdo shooting up a movie theater in Aurora.

[Elsie]

"A lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities," the president, who has called for reimposing the Assault Weapons Ban, said in a speech to the National Urban League.

"I believe the majority of gun owners would agree that we should do everything possible to prevent criminals and fugitives from purchasing weapons; that we should check someone's criminal record before they can check out a gun seller; that a mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily," he said. "These steps shouldn't be controversial. They should be common sense."

Barry; we do this NOW!!