It's not just about preventing the next mass murder. It's about preventing the next child death by bullet.
The gun debate comes down to two things convenience (gun owners not wanting to fill out more forms) and Profit (gun companies not wanting to make less).
Because if we put into place gun laws that would prevent deaths by bullet - gun owners would have to fill out more forms, spend more money and sometimes not be able to get as much ammo as they want. Boo-hoo.
If we put into place laws that prevent deaths by bullet -- guns and ammo manufactures will make less money because they will sell fewer funs and way fewer bullets.
Nobody wants YOUR guns. We just want you to be more responsible with it (them).
And before you go off half cocked about the 2nd Amendment--
remember this is how the conservative supreme court interprets it.
District of Columbia v Heller - Justice Scalia
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
The gun debate comes down to two things convenience (gun owners not wanting to fill out more forms) and Profit (gun companies not wanting to make less).
Wrong….and again, wrong. The debate is first that every citizen in the country has a right to Self defense….a Right, not something the government can take away….
Also, it is about cost and benefit analysis….
in 2014 there were 8,124 gun murders in a country of over 320 million people.
according to bill clinton 1.5 million Americans use guns to stop violent criminal attack each year.
8,124 vs. 1,500,000
Which number is bigger….
the 1,500,000 are lives saved, and lives that are not destroyed by violent sociopaths…….
You anti gun extremists hate guns….there is no debating that point, you absolutely hate them….and you will do everything in your power to keep normal people from owning, buying and carrying them even though they are used to stop violent crime and one day may be used to stop genocide, mass murder and ethnic cleansing….ask the Europeans about that…..
So you put up universal background checks not to stop criminals, because you know they won't stop criminals, but because it allows you to harass and possibly jail a normal person who commits the sin of trying to buy or carry a gun for self defense……
You fight every effort to teach people how to use guns safely….because if people use guns safely and are not afraid of them, you won't be able to ban them…so you prevent gun safety being taught to children to keep them safe, and with the new universal background check laws, which will damage the ability to teach gun safety, you create more opportunitis for people to be injured or killed by guns…which will give you more power to go after guns….
You are vile people….and we will not give you one more gun, bullet or piece of equipment without a fight.