Posted on 09/19/2019 11:06:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz
President Trump's history is all over the place when it comes to the Second Amendment and gun control.
Luckily, he has so far defended the Second Amendment as president, with the notable exception of his foolish, arguably illegal bump-stock ban, which would ban a popular firearm accessory via executive fiat.
On the issue of background checks, Trump’s stance has been far from clear. He’s both opposed and vocally supported so-called “universal background checks”. Yet with Attorney General William Barr meeting with congressional Republicans to push a gun control bill expanding background checks to private gun sales, it’s more important now that Trump does not cave — and rejects background check expansion as a useless virtue-signal.
First, the vast majority of gun sales already go through background checks. Current law requires any federally-licensed firearm vendor to run a background check before completing a sale. This is why almost 90% of firearm sales involve a background check already.
The tiny minority of gun transfers that don’t require background checks are person-to-personal sales, or private sales. In many states (and for all interstate sales) background checks are also already required. But whether you want such a rule in your state or not, required background checks will not stop mass shootings.
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Here's the issue: Democrats are hell-bent on keeping long-term records of gun purchases, and law-abiding gun-owners value their privacy. Democrats' determination to track gun owners has blocked reform proposals in the past, and it will probably continue to do so. Anyone who values the preservation of gun rights has to oppose the creation of an effective gun registry — especially with Beto O’Rourke literally saying “yes, we’re taking your guns,” and receiving enthusiastic cheers from Democratic audiences. Government tracking of guns, after all, is a necessary precursor to mass confiscation.
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“If he caves, we stay home!”
Caves on a background check bill? Nah. Trump is the only game in town. I see no rationale for a conservative to stay home and not vote for him.
Too many Republicans have shown for generations that they’ll pass laws against freedoms, against production on U.S. soil and against the kind of family structure that worked for thousands of years. Then they advertise in campaigns that we’ll be doomed, if we don’t vote for them to save us.
They’re part of the Democrat machine of incrementalism towards hard socialism, chewing up the lives of millions of Americans little by little. The truth is that they don’t like local competition in business any more than Democrats do, and they are obsessed with controlling the rest of us to keep us from rising to compete.
If Republicans really want our votes, they’ll do no more or less than to struggle for our freedoms and encourage us to learn and produce on our own, unhindered by the regulations that maintain the establishment of corruption.
If they cooperate with Democrats against key U.S. freedoms, they’ll lose our votes. It’s that simple.
We’ll not only stop voting for them again. We’ll stop talking to them.
"Facts aside, their oath is to the constitution-—polls and feelings don’t mean crap. There are ways to change it and it requires 3/4’s of the states, 2/3 of Congress and the President....just to start."
Outside of the 'bully pulpit' the President does not have any role to play in the Amendment process. Only Congress, Conventions and States of the Union are involved.
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A more worthless term was never invented. Anyone who applies it to others is an idiot.
I’ve never heard or read that Trump supported “universal” background checks.
He has supported more meaningful background checks, which might focus more on mental issues and teenage problems with the laws.
“universal background checks” = BS
That would mean I could not sell/give a gun to my BIL, nephew, or a neighbor of many years, without them going through a UBC. ...Spit
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