{"id":61624,"date":"2015-08-30T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61624"},"modified":"2015-08-30T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T13:16:27","slug":"how-does-gun-registration-make-us-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61624","title":{"rendered":"How does gun registration make us safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s some incoherent jibber-jabber at the Washington Post<\/a> about how Americans responded to a Pew poll that they want more gun control by mandating background checks for private sales and creating a federal database to track gun sales. I get the feeling that the people who responded to the poll didn’t understand the question. I’m wondering, mostly, how creating a federal database would make us safer. <\/p>\n

For example, last night in DC there were six shootings. Now, if gun registration is a law enforcement tool, did the DC police check on all of the registered gun owners in the district to see if they had an alibi for the shootings? There are only a handful of legal gun owners in the District, so it wouldn’t take long. Right? Yeah, well, needless to say, the DC government didn’t contact their residents who legally own guns as part of the police investigations. <\/p>\n

So, really, what does gun registration do to make us safer? All it does is tell federal authorities where the guns are, you know, if they ever decide to come and relieve us of our firearms and our Second Amendment right. Creating a federal database just makes the gun grabbers feel better about themselves, it doesn’t do a damn thing to make us safer.<\/p>\n

The poll also says Americans want that everyone buying a gun in a private sale should go through background checks. The intent of course, is to make it illegal for someone to get a gun who couldn’t pass a background check, which is illegal now anyway. I’m pretty sure that those guys who sell guns in a dark alley or a parking lot will start taking it seriously when private sales require background checks.<\/p>\n

Also, Pew found that Americans think that there should be laws banning the mentally ill from buying guns. Um, yes there are laws in that regard already, it’s just that the gatekeepers aren’t doing their jobs. So, see there’s something in the poll that the people want that is already in place, but the government, the health care profession, law enforcement, the judiciary just aren’t doing their jobs. I don’t see the Washington Post coming out for more enforcement of existing laws. Because it’s easier to write more laws that only the law-abiding citizenry will take seriously, than it is to enforce existing laws on criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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