Another example of the typical dumbness of the American Right. Do they give right wingers dumb pills? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Eric had been looking into the Brady Bill. Congress had passed the law restricting the purchase of most popular semiautomatic machine guns in 1993. A federal system of instant background checks would soon go into effect. Eric was going to have a hard time getting around that.
"Fuck you Brady!" Eric wrote in his journal. All he wanted was a couple of guns - "and thanks to your fucking bill I will probably not get any!" He wanted them only for personal protection, he joked: "Its not like I'm some psycho who would go on a shooting spree. fuckers."
Eric frequently made his research do double duty for both schoolwork and his master plan. He wrote up a short research assignment on the Brady Bill that week. It was a good idea in theory, he said, aside from the loopholes.
The biggest problem was that checks applied only to licensed dealers, not private dealers. So two-thirds of the licensed dealers had just gone private. "The FBI just shot themselves in the foot," he concluded."
Eric was rational about his firepower. "As of this date I have enough explosives to kill about 100 people," he wrote. With axes, bayonets, and assorted blades, he could maybe take out ten more. That was as far as hand to-hand combat would get him. A hundred and ten people. "that just isn't enough!"
"Guns!" the entry concluded. "I need guns! Give me some fucking firearms! " p.280 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen [bold added]
Yeah...I saw this and they are nuts.....
Can these geniuses explain how universal background checks for private sales will stop criminals from getting guns? Can you?
First....criminals use straw purchasers..that means that they use someone who can pass the federally mandated background check to buy the guns for them....or the criminals steal the guns.
So....what does universal background checks do to stop a criminal from using a straw purchaser...someone with a clean background check from buying a gun through a private seller? Making the universal background check as useless at stopping criminals from getting guns as the current background checks are.
Mass public shooters pass current background checks...so they can pass universal background checks too.....
See how stupid this "study" is.......with just that point being made.......
The reason they have less gun murder in other countries is the culture of the criminal sub cultures of those other countries...their criminals get guns easily...as I post here all the time....they just do not choose to commit murder as often as American criminals do.......background checks do not stop one crime or mass shooting...
See...it is people like you who don't think this through who believe dumb studies like this....
Is this Eric kid from Columbine.......
You do realize that he was a teenager and it was illegal to sell him a gun...and it wasn't hard to tell he was underage at the time he was sold the guns he used in the shootings...right? So again....this "study" and your example are stupid......
Try thinking about this before you post....