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To: JudyinCanada
Ok, at the risk of being eviscerated because of lack of knowledge, what is wrong with tougher background checks?

You won't get eviscerated from me and I keep several firearms, including so-called "assault weapons" in my home.

Eventually the public is going to demand that there be a mechanism in place to keep mentally/emotionally unstable people from buying firearms other than waiting until they're either a felon or adjudicated mentally ill.

It's going to happen. Even gun-owners are growing tired of life's losers buying a $500 AR-15 and leaving a trail of dead schoolchildren.

99 posted on 02/19/2018 7:54:32 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

If they have not been adjudicated mentally ill, then who will determine who is mentally ill? As far as that goes very few mentally ill people are dangerous so why should those that are not a danger lose their right to bear arms?

Restrictions like this are just a clear path to confiscation. If one group loses their rights, it will soon be another until no average citizen will be allowed to own a firearm. Only “special people” will be able to legally own firearms- who decides who is special enough?


160 posted on 02/19/2018 3:22:59 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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