So, because we feel bad for everyone involved, we pass the above new gun laws. Temporarily we feel a bit better. Then the next violent extremist strikes and shoots more people. But he/she wasn't on the no-fly list and had no criminal record and so obtained his weapon legally (just like this guy on Orlando). Maybe the wacko (excuse me, disturbed person) didn't even use a semi-auto. What now? We have to pass more restrictive gun laws so we can feel like we are doing something! Ron Barber and all those like him need to come clean and skip to the bottom line regarding their gun control objectives. No gun laws created by humans will stop violent people misusing firearms to hurt other people. Remember the liberal mantra? "If even one person is hurt by a firearm, it's too many".
You know the only thing that has a chance of (eventually) working is a total ban on civilian ownership of all firearms. Why don't you respect our intelligence enough to come out and say it?
This bad guy passed multiple background checks, was NOT on any no-fly list and the FBI was not currently investigating him. So NONE of the (knee jerk) gun control proposals being offered today in Congress would have stopped this cowardly killer. People everywhere are screaming for SOMETHING to be done. Nothing will work short of crushing all the guns - wait - then these wackos will turn to bombs. That would be worse (imho).
The NRA doesn't tell it's members what to support. It's the other way around. The NRA is simply reflecting the views of millions of people in this country who are also members. Please don't vilify the NRA as some dark entity - it's people, maybe your neighbor or co-worker. The private citizen to citizen gun sales you would like to bring under the background check umbrella cannot be enforced unless you engineer the universal registration of all guns. There can be no enforcement component to universal background checks without universal registration. People calling for background checks (which are already in place for the majority of gun sales) need to call a spade a spade and own up to what they are really proposing.
I think the Goldwater group has enough here to merit this being decided in court. A decision should be made based on the existing statutes and not on what people "think" is best for the county or who "has it in" for the county. We're all getting too lazy - using a seemingly "good" end to justify some pretty dubious means.
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You know the only thing that has a chance of (eventually) working is a total ban on civilian ownership of all firearms. Why don't you respect our intelligence enough to come out and say it?