{"id":62280,"date":"2015-10-11T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62280"},"modified":"2015-10-11T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T14:49:01","slug":"why-more-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62280","title":{"rendered":"Why more gun control?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media is all a-buzz about more gun control for some reason. I guess that’s all of those journalism school graduates who want to change the world. Chief Tango sends us a link from Amazon.com’s Washington Post to an article entitled “Most gun owners support restrictions. Why aren\u2019t their voices heard?<\/a>” which concludes, falsely, that because of some mis-worded poll questions, that gun owners want more gun control;<\/p>\n

85 percent of gun owners favor universal background checks, an idea fiercely opposed by the gun lobby. Gun owners also strongly support a federal database of gun sales, prohibiting ownership for those convicted of domestic violence and barring people with mental illness from buying guns.<\/p>\n

Though there is less support for banning high-powered assault rifles \u2014 about 49 percent of gun owners would, vs. 64 percent of non-gun owners, according to Pew \u2014 gun control advocates are emboldened that a near majority is out of lockstep with the gun lobby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The truth is that gun owners favor background checks. Me included. But if you get down in the weeds with your questions, you’d find that gun owners want the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) strengthened. There is no “gun show loop hole” – I’ve bought three guns at gun shows and went through the same background checks that I would have endured at a retailer’s store. There is no “internet loop hole” I’ve bought a bunch of guns in auctions and website sales, and every time the guns shipped to a retailer’s store and I went through the background checks.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post wants you to believe that gun owners want a national gun registration process, but someone tell me how national registration prevents crime. Everything beyond background checks is just TSA-style feel good mental masturbation. It makes people feel safer without actually making anyone safer. <\/p>\n

When someone in New York State gets shot with a 9-millimeter handgun, do the local authorities question everyone with a registered 9-millimeter for their alibi while the crime was committed? No, never. And that’s the only way that gun registration would influence crime – if criminals were afraid that they’d be caught with their registered gun. Gun registration isn’t a law enforcement tool – it’s just so the government knows where all of the guns are, if and when they decide that we don’t need them anymore. We’re only one Supreme Court Justice away from that decision, by the way.<\/p>\n

But criminals don’t register their guns, they don’t buy their guns at a place where they’d be subjected to background checks. That’s why they’re criminals. The only people who buy their guns in accordance with the law, are law-abiding non-criminals. Anyone who says that there is easy-access to guns in this country has never gone through background checks, never bought a legal gun. Even though I had a Top Secret clearance (a spotless record) last year before I retired, there was an extra step I had to go through to buy a gun – one more phone call to the FBI than the rest of you went through. And I’d get the evil eye from the retailer because of it.<\/p>\n

Every shooter in the last several “mass shootings” had something in their history that should have triggered a flag on their NICS check, but because the government is more concerned with keeping law-abiding citizens from buying firearms, those who should be flagged, sail right through the process. The ultimate goal of the government is to take guns away from law abiding citizens, because that’s all they can do is write laws to restrict the rights of people who obey the law. There are no laws to prevent criminal behavior, only laws to punish those who get caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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