We have some background checks, but not for all gun sales. Imagine if you only had to gave a safety inspection if you bought a car from a car lot. Individual sales didn't require them.
Very few firearms used in crimes are purchased from gun stores or gun shows. Most are stolen or purchased through straw buyers. So you could expand background checks all you like, but it won't put a dent in the criminal problems we have.
If very few guns used in crimes are bought from those sources, it shows the effectiveness of background checks. Why wouldn't you want to add guns bought from individual sellers to that list of effective ways to keep guns out of criminal's hands?
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Abuse, you can’t trust the federal government to do the right thing. It’s impossible
Quit your whining. Universal background checks wouldn't limit anybody's ability to legally own guns any more than the perfectly constitutional background checks we do now.
Not true. First of all, background checks are not free, and cost $20. Second is that they invade privacy. Third is that historically they have always lead to illegal confiscation by a corrupt government. Forth is that there is no legal ability for government to deny anyone the right of self defense, even convicted felons who have served their time.
If there are people so dangerous they can't be trusted with weapons, then they can't be trusted with cars, flammables, fertilizer, poisons, or just about anything, and THEY need to be supervised constantly. You can't instead try to make the whole world nerf safe. That is impossible.
But the MAIN point is that background checks are always going to be irrelevant to criminals who already intend to violate far more serious laws.
All they do is harass and intimidate honest people.
Did the War on Drugs reduce drug availability?
No, it actually increased illegal drug availability by making the illegal market so profitable and by angering people with invasive nanny laws.
All laws like that do is increase murder by increasing the underground economy.
Make guns even more restricted and you increase murders through the increased underground economy.
We already know this from the mistake of Prohibition of Alcohol.
It always backfires, and can not possibly work.