2aguy
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The group, Gun Owners of America wants to get rid of background checks and any data base containing names…….they make valid points.
GOA: Abolish Background Checks, Destroy Linked Database
Our conversation began with a discussion of how yet another public attacker, Vester Lee Flanagan, demonstrated the impotency of background checks by passing one to acquire the gun he used to shoot and kill Alison Parker and Adam Ward in Virginia.
Pratt responded by pointing out that public attackers are not the only ones background checks fail to stop. He said, “During the last year of record, although the government has done millions upon million of background checks, they brought 14 prosecutions to court for trial–hardly a crime-fighting tool.” He said some people respond to this by pointing out that there were people who were “denied getting a gun at the point of sale,” but these people fail to note that criminals get guns in ways that completely circumvent the checks.
Pratt said:
Many mass murders have gotten their hands on guns by passing a background check, while other criminals are resourceful. They are evil, but they are resourceful, as well, and they get their hands on guns. The idea that somehow we’re safe if we do a background check is simply not true.
We discussed a previous Breitbart News report about a University of Chicago Crime Lab study that showed that inmates in Cook County jail said they avoided gun shows, Internet sales, and gun stores, choosing, instead, to buy their guns on the street through “personal connections.”
They admitted their goal was to circumvent law enforcement oversight of the purchase. Breitbart News stressed that the testimony of the inmates proves anew that background checks are ultimately a gun control that burdens law-abiding citizens, making their gun purchases more difficult, while criminals continue to get guns in other ways.
GOA: Abolish Background Checks, Destroy Linked Database
Our conversation began with a discussion of how yet another public attacker, Vester Lee Flanagan, demonstrated the impotency of background checks by passing one to acquire the gun he used to shoot and kill Alison Parker and Adam Ward in Virginia.
Pratt responded by pointing out that public attackers are not the only ones background checks fail to stop. He said, “During the last year of record, although the government has done millions upon million of background checks, they brought 14 prosecutions to court for trial–hardly a crime-fighting tool.” He said some people respond to this by pointing out that there were people who were “denied getting a gun at the point of sale,” but these people fail to note that criminals get guns in ways that completely circumvent the checks.
Pratt said:
Many mass murders have gotten their hands on guns by passing a background check, while other criminals are resourceful. They are evil, but they are resourceful, as well, and they get their hands on guns. The idea that somehow we’re safe if we do a background check is simply not true.
We discussed a previous Breitbart News report about a University of Chicago Crime Lab study that showed that inmates in Cook County jail said they avoided gun shows, Internet sales, and gun stores, choosing, instead, to buy their guns on the street through “personal connections.”
They admitted their goal was to circumvent law enforcement oversight of the purchase. Breitbart News stressed that the testimony of the inmates proves anew that background checks are ultimately a gun control that burdens law-abiding citizens, making their gun purchases more difficult, while criminals continue to get guns in other ways.
