{"id":60545,"date":"2015-06-24T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60545"},"modified":"2015-06-24T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:10:43","slug":"populist-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60545","title":{"rendered":"Populist gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Harry Reid decided to pander to the ignorant calls for “expanded background checks” yesterday, according to The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs,” Reid said from the Senate floor. “Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. … We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I fully support that recommendation – the thing is, it’s already illegal to transfer guns to the mentally ill and felons.<\/p>\n

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But Reid warned that without new legislation, “we will be here again. Our hearts will be broken again, and we’re going to have to ask ourselves how we allowed another senseless tragedy to take place while we stand by doing nothing.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What new legislation, Harry? Just saying the words is meaningless. It’s no more than pandering to the masses, the masses of ignorant morons who, for some reason, think that there are no background checks currently. Maybe they get that idea from lying politicians like Harry Reid who want to perpetuate the myth that politicians can solve society’s ills with new legislation.<\/p>\n

The problem here is that are indeed laws that would have prevented Tucson, Aurora, New Town and Charleston, but government is failing us by not enforcing the laws. Instead of pushing the burden of gun control onto the majority of gun owners, why isn’t government forcing it’s own employees to do their jobs? Why aren’t they punishing the bureaucrats who won’t update the NICS system in a timely manner correctly? Why aren’t the mental health professionals held to account for their failings in that system?<\/p>\n

The system depends on an accurate background checks system, but that doesn’t exist. The system as it currently exists, depends on criminals to tell the truth. Who is so naive that they’ll believe that would happen? That’s what happened when this retard in Charleston bought his firearm – he lied on the ATF form 4473 down there in block #11(e) where it asks him if he uses drugs illegally;<\/p>\n

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We’re so gullible that we think that someone who is plotting to kill a large number of people will answer these questions truthfully. The call-in to the Feds is supposed to verify the information, but if the Feds don’t have access to the most current information, the potential criminal is going to walk out of the store with a gun.<\/p>\n

Former Conservative David Frum, thinks that he can cure the mass shooting thing. In the Atlantic<\/a>, he urges that the government should make gun owners buy liability insurance and then take “meaningful training”. There are automobile drivers out there without insurance, but Frum thinks that he can make criminals buy insurance for their firearm.<\/p>\n

How “meaningful training” will stop criminals, I have no idea, unless they take time out of their crime sprees to punch that ticket.<\/p>\n

So, Reid and Frum think that by raising the specter of the “gun show loophole” that will scare politicians to action. The FBI reports that less than 2% of the guns used in crimes are purchased at gun shows. Me, personally, I’ve never bought a gun at a gun show when I didn’t have to go through background checks at the point of sale. So, I don’t know what they’re talking about.<\/p>\n

In my considered opinion, making new legislation to control gun owners is about as useful as this current move to eradicate the Confederate flag from the United States. That fellow in South Carolina was wearing shorts in his pictures, too, are we going to do away with short pants to make us safer?<\/p>\n

So, if you’re wondering about my senator, Joe Manchin, a recent convert to the grabbing of guns, yes, he’s contemplating a new set of laws according to the Washington Post<\/a>, because that’s what legislators do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure we have the votes. Pat\u2019s going to have to, and I\u2019ll work with him, to get some of our colleagues on the Republican side,\u201d Manchin said, adding that he hasn\u2019t talked directly to Toomey about a revival.<\/p>\n

Manchin specifically mentioned an effort aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of people diagnosed with mental illness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, we legally, mentally balanced gun owners don’t have to worry about Manchin’s new efforts, right? Yeah, right. <\/p>\n

Sometimes, doing something just to do something is worse than doing nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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