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On Expanded Background Checks For Firearms Purchases:

This effirt, like other proposed “common sense solutions” only applies to those who either are, or believe themselves to be law abiding citizens at the time and point of purchase. Violent criminals and non-citizens will continue to possess and use firearms that are either stolen outright by means of home invasions, car jackings, gun store robberies, etc., or purchase them on the street from other criminals who are fencing them. And, you can forget about the “straw-man purchase” myth because no criminal is going to pay full retail, when he can buy a hot firearm on the street for one-third the price.

This issue isn’t about whether background checks can be expanded, but rather to what extent, and who will be responsible for developing and enforcing the new exclusionary criteria for denials. The inherent danger doesn’t lie in the promulgation of a new law on expanded background checks, but rather the far less transparent rule-making under the new law by career liberal bureaucrats, which could include, for example, confiscatory provisions.

In Texas, the issuance of a “License To Carry A Handgun” (LTC) by the Department of Public Safety includes an expanded background check by the state that is exhaustive, when compared to the FBI’s NICS background check. It includes such things as juvenile and misdemeanor records, warrant histories, mental records, local reports of domestic violence, child support payment histories, restraining orders and protective custody records, delinquent state taxes, substance dependency records and more. In other words, you damn well better be June or Ward Cleaver before applying for a Texas LTC.

If our federal government were to adopt background checks like Texas’ for the purchase of firearms, it would require an active and leviathan database. It would also likely require a new presidential cabinet position and federal agency ... the “US Department of Firearm Purchase Background Checks.” Remember that the expansion of background checks for firearms purchases will have no effect whatsoever on criminal’s access to, or possession of firearms. Our politicians have a proud and unblemished record of strict avoidance when it comes to disarming murdering criminals who are roaming the streets of America.

The stuff I’ve seen on Facebook and elsewhere reminds me of what happened a few years ago concerning the Memories Pizza episode, in terms of the online lynch mob and celebrity/media involvement. Some of the anger and vitriol directed at the NRA and Republicans and law abiding firearms owners really takes you aback, even if it might not be surprising.

The other day, I debated with people, making the point that why weren’t teenage boys shooting up schools back in the days of gun and rifle clubs being quite common in public high schools as well as their participation in hunting seasons. I got a lot of shrieks and yells about “Well, they didn’t have Rambo style guns or assault rifles back then” and “why do you need an assault rifle since Bambi is not going to shoot back at you”. Yet no one seemed to want to acknowledge that back then it was simply about these abhorrent incidents not taking place back then, regardless of what firearms were present.

Y’know, to Democrats, “Many potentially dangerous and mentally ill people currently roam the streets even after exhibiting violent tendencies. It’s unconscionable that we allow it to continue.” describes us - Freepers, gun owners, Constitutionalists.

Much as I’d like to see dangerous mentally ill people institutionalized, you have to remember who decides who is mentally ill, and which ones are dangerous.

Of course the Gub’mint would never use this for political ends. /sarc

This kids foster parents allowed him to have an AR-15 even after the police were called out 39 times on him. They reportedly had the gun locked in a safe, but didn’t realize he had a second key to the safe.

There are two issues I think could help stop this:

1) Security. Schools need cameras and armed security. Entrances should be locked during class hours. (Push bar release inside of course.) Armed guards watching cameras and patrolling grounds. There are also robotic guards now as well.

2) The drugs. What do we do with the behavior drugs? All of these guys are taking this crap. Should taking this medication make one a prohibited possessor?

These people care very little for these kids as human beings in much the same way they don’t care about black people being slaughtered in Chicago or Baltimore. (this is not directed at the “Good Hearted” liberals, which are not the ideologues or power brokers in the American Left. Those “Good Hearted” liberals I am certain feel very deeply about these murdered kids. They are simply useful idiots to the Leftist ideologues and power brokers, as tools to be harnessed and used.)

However, they care very much about them as symbols.

In their Leftist racist minds (to which race is a template they overlay on everything under the sun) young white students being killed in multiples on a single day is far more useful to them as a tool to harness (as a way to achieve their political goals) than to point at the overwhelming disparity in numbers of young black teenagers being killed singly each day.

Overall, the difference is striking for a group that is 12% of the US population being killed outright in far in greater numbers than the majority population. For example, for all men in 2016, black males had 6,749 murder deaths, while whites had 4,665 deaths. This is for all homicides, not just gun deaths, but I suspect the VAST majority are gunshot deaths, and that won’t even be close.

I couldn’t easily get the underlying data to break down by age, but I have no doubt that male deaths by homicide between the ages of 13-18 by race will be very similar.

The point is, the liberals understand the power of presentation and racial circumstances, and they cynically know full well that the majority of white Americans are going to identify with a picture of a murdered red headed 14 year old white girl with green eyes than they will with a 14 year old black male.

So, from a political party in which the two most powerful figures in it from the last decade have been Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both been vocal acolytes and admirers of the despicable Saul Alinsky, who preached that no crisis should be allowed to go to waste, this is not in the least surprising.

I am certain the howls of protest at this assessment would be forthcoming from any leftist, which is fully expected. Getting flack over the target and all.