Posted on 03/09/2021 5:32:38 AM PST by rellimpank
There is a glimmer of hope for stronger federal laws to reduce gun violence, but many states are working actively against it. That puts everyone in every state in greater peril.
Organizations working to reduce gun violence are optimistic about getting a bill requiring universal background checks on gun sales through Congress this session. The bill, reintroduced on March 2, would expand background checks to cover private sales at gun shows and over the internet.
Among the leading backers of the bill, which is hardly controversial among the vast majority of Americans, are U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
What good does any gun control bill do?
Restrictions on the sale of guns is ridiculous.
How many weapons are already in the hands of USouth citizens?
Why are there federal gun laws? Isn’t that something states should handle?
Hardly controversial? Bull hockey!
Yes, the usual. The bad guys will be left alone as the good people will suffer more. “Gun control” is nothing more than people control that appeals to statists and emotional minds of mush.
The Problem is the Feral Animals in your Locale
Does the author think that sanctuary cities and the like undermine federal law too? My guess, not so much.
The only way to enforce universal background checks is with universal registration. That is their goal.
More Guns, Less Crime
More Gun Laws, More Crime
Gun Laws are not a crime reduction measure. Never have been.
If law abiding citizens were allowed to carry in these Communist hell hole more of the criminals would be dead and we can’t have poor criminals killed.
Someone once said, “If the Government wants to take away your guns it’s because they want to do something that you would shoot them for.
Yeah, protecting constitutional rights is so yucky.
Why do you suppose radical wokes in Chicago would feel threatened by someone having hunting rifles in Wisconsin or a handgun in Des Moines? Do they think they will be invaded or something?
Hey Chicago! No one wants you that much. You have a popular commercial district and a nice waterfront, but the rest of your city is a war zone, and that has nothing to do with anyone else buy you!
The 10th Amendment forbids all current federal gun control laws.
which is hardly controversial among the vast majority of Americans,
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Pure propaganda.
***My Guns have never been Violent. They are inanimate objects. ***
Not according to TV shows from 1969-1985. Standard plot was... man buys his wife a .25 cal handgun. Gun escapes house with a burglar and goes on a killing spree with others who come into possession of the gun.
Gun is finally cornered and melted down into a sewer cover.
As Dr Quincy said about a pistol on his TV series, “WE’VE GOT TO STOP ‘IT’ BEFORE ‘IT’ KILLS AGAIN!
It should read ..."who comply with unconstitutional laws."
Victim Disarmament never works out well for those who are potentially Victims.
Ever.
Then again, this agitprop from a “news” source can’t even get the Constitutionality of Federal “gun laws” right... So take it for what it is.
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