Biggest concern relates to gun registration and confiscation!
Can we really trust the administration that gave us Fast & Furious to respect our Second Amendment rights?
Of course the Obama Administration cannot be trusted!
Recent articles in the
liberal {Marxist} media have suggested that setting up a framework for gun
registration and confiscation--the so-called “universal background
check”--is somehow less insidious than other gun control proposals
currently on the table.
Anyone who believes this
is foolish and naive if not delusional.
Here are thirteen reasons why the “universal background
check” is the most insidious gun control of all:
FIRST: The principle that no American can own a firearm without getting the
go-ahead from the government is offensive to Americans. We don’t
require breathalyzer checks before people get into their cars even
though drunk drivers kill more than 30 times more people than “assault
rifles” do. Nor do we require background checks on clubs and hammers,
which also kill more often than “assault rifles.”[i]
SECOND: Universal background checks would not have stopped Adam Lanza (who
stole his guns), or James Holmes or Jared Loughner (who passed
background checks).
THIRD: One
of the nation’s leading anti-gun medical publications, the Journal of
the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that the Brady law has
failed to reduce murder rates. In August 2000, JAMA reported that
states implementing waiting periods and background checks did “not
[experience] reductions in homicide rates or overall suicide rates.”[ii]
FOURTH:
Increasingly, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms is
illegally going into gun dealers and xeroxing all of the 4473’s--a
practice which represents the beginnings of a national gun registry.
FIFTH:
The FBI refuses to tell us how or whether it is complying with the
Smith and Tiarht amendments prohibiting Brady names from being kept for a
national gun registry.
SIXTH:
Germany just set up a national gun registry, based on index cards kept
at 551 locations throughout the country--cards not dissimilar to the
4473’s which every American gun buyer would be required to fill out
under a Universal Background Check system.
SEVENTH:
The NICS list currently contains the names of more than 150,000
law-abiding veterans who didn’t do anything wrong (but honorably served
their country and then sought counseling for their wartime experiences)--and could soon contain tens of millions of names of Medicaid patients
with post partem depression, IDEA students with ADHD, and soldiers,
police, and firemen with PTSD.
EIGHTH:
Anyone who doesn’t believe a national gun registry leads to national
gun confiscation should consider the confidential memorandum advocating
confiscation and circulated by New York Democrats prior to their most
recent round of New York gun control.[iii]
NINTH:
Even under current demands, the Brady system is constantly breaking
down--for example, shutting off many purchases on Black Friday, a day
when there were massive numbers of gun purchases which were effectively
blocked.
TENTH:
Many sellers in very rural areas would find it a great hardship to
travel hundreds of miles, accompanied by their purchasers, in order to
make a sale in a licensed dealer’s place of business. This
inconvenience for rural sellers would be even more significant if, as
happens 10% of the time, the purchase--usually for no reason at all--is not immediately approved.
ELEVENTH:
In a significant number of current transactions, purchases are held up
for no reason other than the fact that the seller’s name is similar to
someone else’s name. Often, these botch-ups permanently block gun
purchases when (1) the FBI’s response remains non-committal after three
days, (2) the gun dealer refuses to sell based on a non-committal
response, despite the language of the Brady Law, and (3) the FBI’s
response is “sue us.”
TWELFTH:
Can we really trust the administration that gave us Fast & Furious
to respect our Second Amendment rights? The Obama Administration
knowingly approved (via background checks) the sales of thousands of
guns to the Mexican Cartel in order to justify calls for greater gun
control here at home. As a result, several hundred Mexicans have been
killed -- not to mention at least one U.S. federal agent. Considering
the Obama administration’s record on guns, the administration should NOT be
trusted to keep guns out of the “wrong hands.” Isn’t this the fox
guarding the hen house?
THIRTEENTH:
Let’s be honest--"Universal background checks" are nothing more than the
ineffectual platform from which gun haters will make their next set of
demands, based on the next horrific tragedy.
[i]
For drunk driving-related fatalities, see Table 3 Statistics, US
Department of Transportation National Highway Safety Administration
Traffic Safety Facts Report 12/2012: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.
[ii]
Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, “Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated
With Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act,” Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 284, no. 5 (August 2, 2000).
[iii] See http://tinyurl.com/bg7q3jy -- and see Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s statement that “confiscation could be an option” at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
