Screw the liberal Republicans willing to sell out the Second Amendment.

Why?

Because you have to remember what the long game is here. This is NOT about stopping gun violence. If it were then by looking at the last several years worth of shootings we would immediately outlaw the following.

A. crazy people with guns (allowing mentally ill loose period)

B. Islamic radical terrorists with guns (Seattle, D.C. sniper, Arkansas, Ft Hood)

C. Black and Hispanic gang members with guns (Chicago, D.C., L.A., Oakland, and on and on.

Add those three elements together and you would cut gun violence down by 90%. That would sure enough beat the “if we can save only one life it is worth it” bull we hear all the time.

So, if they are not doing that why are they doing this??

Again, registration. I was in an intel unit in law enforcement for a while. If you think that your “background” check between you and your buddy or son or daughter isn’t going to be held forever you are not only a fool, you are an idiot.

The NSA is building a facility that will house almost every email, text message and other citizen information that will occur in this nation. The government is arguing it has the right to keep this information so that IN THE FUTURE if you commit a crime, they can track you backwards for years. They will know who you talked to, what you texted, what you emailed. FOR YEARS!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Now take that desire and apply it to gun records. If the goal is to disarm the citizenry, thus removing the last threat of government control (read history people) then it would make sense they keep track of your activity. You sell a Glock to your buddy. They now know you own guns and you are flagged, and your buddy owns a gun and he is flagged. Someday that flag will bite you in the rear.

Then they make background checks of ammo purchases legal and when you say “Hey I own a .38 revolver” and register the same, but buy .223 ammo at a store, they will know you are lying. That means PC for a warrant and a knock at your door by the police.

This is so obvious it is painful.

Again, what is the long game? Feinstein- God love the elderly “Cardinal of the Senate” and her total inability to be secretive- said her goal was to disarm American in one generation.

And background checks are a good first step.

Call Colburn, email, write. Make him listen to reason.

If a licensed dealer does a background check that is okay. It was his choice to work in that environment. But if I want to give my son a gun or my friend a gun or want to swap guns with a buddy, it isn’t their damned business.

Just finding himself in agreement with Schumer should have caused something akin to spastic colon.

Shall NOT infringe!!!

PappyD61 on February 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM

+1

Gun show this weekend. I’m gonna get my 2nd amendment on.

I think I’ll buy from a private individual so I don’t need a background check either.

Next we have liability insurance for all gun owners. *Failure

What to do, oh yeah, we can do back ground checks on all law abiding citizens. This will be sure to keep guns out of the criminals and people with mental health issues. The only problem with this solution is criminals do not buy legal weapons (in most instances) and people with mental health issues usually don’t advertise their problem and there’s this little thing called Doctor Confidentiality. *Failure

My point is that “mental-health professionals” do not have the authority to deny any American their Constitutional rights. Is there going to be some sort of hearing or legal process before people end up on a list?

Murf76 on February 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM

Keene mentioned that any notification of mental illness in order to deny someone a purchase of a firearm should be adjudicated.

MJBrutus on February 8, 2013 at 11:21 AM

Your naïveté is staggering. Until the economy is “salvaged” (which could take decades), you think we should wave the white flag of surrender on every other issue. Our freedoms and our Constitution be damned

The prize – the ONLY prize, apparently – is “cutting down on government spending.” Great. Who needs freedom of speech, assembly, protest, religion, the press, etc., as long as our annual federal deficit is under $500 billion?

steebo77 on February 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM

MJB doesn’t give two figs whether the budget is balanced and the economy is “saved”.
He’s a liberal…a leftist. And as such, his sole purpose is to distract and obfuscate long enough for the Second Amendment to be abrogated by his obamassiah.

And, yes. He does believe that we should “surrender” to the leftists who want to destroy this country.

Mental Health records are supposed to be included in the NICS data-base – this is one of the shortfalls that Wayne LaPierre spoke about the current system in that many states just do not get this info into the system, mainly because the mental-health professionals just don’t pass this info on to LE, or LE just sits on it (Jared Loughner in Tucson is a classic example).

Another Drew on February 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM

My point is that “mental-health professionals” do not have the authority to deny any American their Constitutional rights. Is there going to be some sort of hearing or legal process before people end up on a list?

The gentleman speaking is a law professor at a local law school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1blSrn3MGNY#t=7550s
(sorry, I don’t know how to do the cool link name thing like you all do)
(posted on NRA late)
VikingGoneWild on February 7, 2013 at 9:45 PM