http://wagunrights.org/http://wagunresponsibility.org/about-594/Please, please, please. Be civil, discuss and debate the above.
I stand firmly on the pro gun side. New laws do nothing to curb violence when the old laws are not being enforced.
I have a question to the anti gun members. How many people have been prosecuted when failing to pass the current background checks? The felons and mentally (certified) who know they are prohibited from purchasing, owning, or have in their possession?
Let me answer that question for you.
"Nevertheless, NICS performs millions of checks every year, and usually in under two minutes. In 2010, the agency reviewed more than 6 million 4473 forms. Just 72,142 were denied the right to buy a gun.
Among those denials, 47 percent were rejected because of a felony indictment or conviction. Yet, just 44 were prosecuted, and 13 convicted of lying on their 4473 form, according to a report prepared for the DOJ by the Regional Justice Information Service in 2012. That represents just .0002 percent of all denials, and an even smaller percentage of the total number of background checks.
While the background check does deny guns to criminals, very few are punished for trying. And while a majority of lawmakers appear to support the system, there are lingering questions over to what extent it prevents crime. According to a 2000 report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found rates of homicide and suicide were not significantly different in states that had implemented the checks versus states that had not."
My argument is simple, if it is about death and killing people, why the attention on guns and not alcohol and cars (Ted Ks car has killed more people than my firearms)? Far more violent deaths, daily. We can keep chipping away at our rights, eventually we will end up with none. Without the 2nd, the first will fall shortly there after.