2aguy
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The complex problem is single teen motherhood, and young men being raised without fathers.
The gun control issue is easy....we already have all the gun control we need to keep gun criminals off the streets. The problem? We keep letting repeat violent gun offenders back out of jail where they then go on to commit gun murder.
magaizine limits, gun registration, universal background checks,....do nothing.
I would say - at the very least - universal background checks would weed out the felons so yes they do something. Without a means of verifying a person's legal ability to buy a gun you might as well have NO gun control.
Sorry.....universal background checks do nothing of the sort. Currently, criminals get straw buyers to buy their guns, ( or they steal them). Those straw buyers are used because they can pass current, federally mandated background checks at gun stores...which means those same straw buyers would pass any universal background check for a private sale.....and criminals do not do private sales because they are afraid the seller will be a cop.......
We don't need universal background checks........if a felon is caught with a gun, right now....we can already arrest them. The only reason anti gunners want universal background checks is that it gives them the reason to demand universal gun registration....
It may not be perfect but it's better than nothing. Same with registration.
No...it is worse than nothing......universal background checks will fail to reduce gun crime and mass shootings...then, after they fail, the anti gunners will come back, with the same arguments and demand universal gun registration...because they know that they need registration in order to successfully ban and confiscate guns.....because they know that this is the procedure Britain, Australia, Germany, New York, Canada, and California did it.......
What exactly does registration do? Since guns are sold or given to criminals illegally already, the seller simply states the gun was stolen.....then, years later when the gun is found after a crime, they can't be held accountable....and right now, it is the baby mommas and grandmothers of gang members buying the guns...and prosecutors do not take those sellers to court......
Here is what registration and some form of tracking CAN do - it can serve to raise a red flag when someone purchases large amounts of ammo, weaponry, assault style equipment (like the San Bernadino shooters did) and while it can't be acted on because it's not illegal in and of itself - perhaps an eye can be kept on them.
So....police forces already stretched.....will be able to sit on someone for 6 months to 2 years?
The Orlando Night Club shooter had a co worker turn him in on suspicion of terrorism .....the FBI conducted a 10 month process....they had trained FBI interrogators talk to him 3 years, they did a full background check, and even had an under cover agent approach the guy....and then let him walk.....he passed background checks for his security job, he passed background checks for each gun he purchased, and then murdered 48 people in the night club.....
While a week later, another shooting happened at a nighclub and a concealed carry gun owner stopped it......