Can anyone explain how registration and background checks stop crime and mass shoots

[2aguy]

Yeah, I have yet to hear from anyone how exactly gun registration and background checks actually work to stop crime and mass shootings...can anyone help out?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

They don't.

 

[ChrisL]

Yeah, I have yet to hear from anyone how exactly gun registration and background checks actually work to stop crime and mass shootings...can anyone help out?

It doesn't since such things only affect law-abiding citizens, and of course the criminals will be completely will be completely unaffected.

 

[Missourian]

Where are the Usual Suspects?

 

[2aguy]

Well...

NRA-ILA | Colorado Experience Soundly Refutes Common Anti-gun Talking Point

The report states that the Colorado Legislative Council, an offshoot of the state legislature that is tasked with analyzing legislation, estimated that 420,000 additional background checks would be conducted in the two years following the new private sale restrictions. This led the Colorado legislature to allocate $3 million to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to handle the anticipated increase.

However, the AP notes, "officials have performed only about 13,600 reviews considered a result of the new law -- about 7 percent of the estimated first year total." The article goes on to state, "In total, there were about 311,000 background checks done during the first year of the expansion in Colorado, meaning the 13,600 checks between private sellers made up about 4 percent of the state total."

 

[whitehall]

Background checks keep crazy people and felons from "legally" buying a gun. At least that's the working theory. Sometimes it works and sometimes the liberal philosophy protects the people who are responsible for gun violence. The worst school shooting in U.S. history occurred a couple of years ago in Blacksburg Va. at Va. Tech. A maniac (Asian) student was given preferential treatment by local Police even after he was accused be several coeds of stalking them. He was never arrested which would have come up in a name check but instead ordered to psychiatric counseling which should have come up in a name check but the liberal establishment in Va thought that the privacy rights of crazy people trump the safety of the rest of us. To make a long story short the maniac was able to "legally" buy the rifle he needed to slaughter about 30 people and himself.