1. Anyone with half a brain knows that background checks = registration..
We've had background checks forever right, and yes when you buy a gun legally in a gun store, show and etc, then it is registered to your name correct, so what changes on that front ???
Hmmmm, is it your fear that any new gun control ideas might include a notary that is placed in between private gun sales or gun gift transfers in order to show where the gun's might be going, otherwise when being passed around between friends and neighbors or in other such situations ?? I'm not aware or sure about that type of privacy issue being breached, and I'm not for anything like that if it involves good citizen's rights being oppressed when it comes to passing gun's amongst themselves as in the cases of trading, gifts, and etc. Criminal's are a different story. We need to intercept any exchanges of weapon's between criminals by immediately confiscating such weapon's that are being carried or exchanged by them.
What you and your gun controlling Democrat buddies are asking for is universal background checks, not just continuing the current, ineffective, useless, unconstitutional, state of background checks and government permission to own a gun.
I'm going to explain this to you even though it has been explained by others many times and you're well aware of it - but you pretend ignorance to justify your push for gun control, registration and, ultimately, confiscation.
In order to enforce universal background checks there must, not might, not should, but must, be full gun registration. Otherwise, how can you and your friends in the ATF know that a background check is completed when a gun is transferred?
Though the current state of background checks amounts to gun registration already, at least there are guns in the hands of the people that are not on the government lists, and I can sell my guns to anyone I believe to not be a criminal without telling the government I did so and I can buy a gun from someone without telling the government I did so.
I'm curious, though; do you support background checks on the right to vote? The Constitution actually explicitly states that the right to vote can be taken for serious crimes. Should there be background checks in order to vote?
Should there be background checks before we let someone write a letter to their Congressman or otherwise protest or argue grievances against the government under the 1st Amendment?
Should there be background checks before we allow a jury trial or an attorney?
2. And mandatory storage has already been held unconstitutional in Heller.
Did I say mandatory anywhere??? Nope,but you attempted to assign that to me because I mentioned storage in the context of having self guiding rules in which should be practiced, and should therefore become all responsible gun owners thinking that to store their guns responsibly is a huge part of responsible gun ownership. How can you or anyone argue that point ??? If you got confused on what I was relaying here, then I hope it cleared it up for you. Don't have to worry about criminal's following such self guiding rules or practices.
Yes, you did imply mandatory storage. Don't be a liar along with being a gun controller. The discussion was what gun control you support and you said you support storage requirements. You used as strong of a statement regarding storage as you did about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and background checks.
You didn't say mandatory for any of those; you just said that all of those are gun controls that you support. I'm certain you didn't mean they were all just good suggestions but that none of them should be mandatory.
With every post you make, you show yourself to be more and more like the Brady's and the Bloombergs. You support gun control and lie about what your goals are. But, unlike them, they at least admit they're gun controllers.
You keep asking for the same things they ask for while claiming to to not be a gun controller. You defend the existing, unconstitutional, laws that don't work at all to reduce crime. Since reducing crime isn't your objective (unless you really are that stupid to believe that they do reduce crime) then gun control on otherwise law-abiding Americans must be your objective.
3. Laws against criminals purchasing guns don't prevent criminals from having guns.
Here you go again, assigning false analysis of my understanding of such things, when I know criminal's don't obey the laws, but how do you put a criminal on notice if the left protects them and their criminality ? We should be able to deal with the criminal element without causing our rights to be diminished in the process, but that's not the way that the left goes about this stuff, so I agree that we should push back on the left, but we should also recognize that Houston we have a huge problem on our hands when it comes to Democrat's and criminal's these days.
Up to me I'd go after criminal's only, and never attempt to take away any rights the good citizen's have, and I would expect the good citizen's to help in addressing the issue, and to come up with ways in which to battle these tragic events with great solutions and not with stupid emotional rhetoric.
So, instead of going after criminals for being criminals, you support gun control under the false promise (that means lie) of reduced crime by regulating the guns of law-abiding citizens.
How does a law forbidding anyone from owning a gun put criminals on notice? On notice of what? On notice that gun controllers are stupid and that the criminals can actually get away with anything they want because nobody actually gives a shit about them having guns and nobody wants to put them in jail for their crimes?
Or is there some other notice that you believe you're giving to criminals? Whatever it is, they don't seem to be getting the message.
Like most of the left, who don't really understand the real world situation of gun ownership and crime and that they're not nearly as related as their masters are telling them, you just want to do something because we have a problem. So, like them, lead with your emotionally based, completely unfounded, gun controls on the law-abiding, rather than addressing crime.
If you really want to address crime, you first put criminals into prison for very long terms in very hard conditions.
Then, you start addressing the root causes; strip the gangs of their money and power, just as we did with the 21st Amendment, and end prohibition.
Then you fix the education system and give all Americans, no matter where they live, or what race they are, the opportunity to choose quality schools, private or public, and their school tax dollars go with the child, not with the school.
And, lastly, you quit paying mothers to make babies as a source of welfare income and hold fathers accountable - including jail for failure to do so, for the children they make.
This is how you effect crime. More laws and regulations on law-abiding Americans, because only law-abiding Americans follow the law (remember; I taught you that earlier in this thread) does nothing to effect crime.