I am in no way in favor of Big Government, I think the smaller the better. I am in favor of a safer community and I think there are ways we can do that. The presidents proposals might make a small impact and if that is so then i'm all for supporting any kind of change that could save a life. I live in California and had no problem getting my gun license. I have no problem with anybody else going through the background check process like I did... In fact I would hope everybody does. If you could by a gun as easy as it is to buy a pack of gum, I think we'd be in a world of trouble. And although I'm fine with ones right to defend yourself against crime, I also think it is a bogus argument. The number of citizens who prevent a crime because they are armed pales in comparison to the accidents, or escalations that lead to death because there was a gun in the picture.Well yes, recreational narcotics are illegal and we have an ever growing problem with narcotics in this country and our laws are not preventing anybody from scoring coke or heroin. That's the point. You think making laws against something is the panacea to this problem.
The reason Democrats never proposed making all guns illegal is because it would be struck down by the supreme court. That's for now. But if America keeps electing Democrat Presidents, an overturn of gun ownership might not be that far down the road once they get enough liberal judges to make that law of the land.
What you have to understand is that each party wants to expand their voting base. One of the largest voting bases for the Democrat party are victims. Democrats love victims and victims love Democrats.
By being able to disarm the public (or as much as they can) that gives the criminals the advantage. So when crime increases once again because people can no longer use firearms for protection, they become victims. Then we have BIG CRIME to deal with. And how do Democrats deal with big crime? The same way they deal with all big things like big corporations, big pharma, big banks, big tobacco: you need big government.
The bigger the government, the happier the Democrat. And this is why we need to stop this before it takes off like a race car.
How? Do you really believe what Obama just did will cut the death toll by even a single life?
Mark