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Originally Posted by Rekna
I fail to see how more comprehensive background checks isn't going to help prevent this sort of thing from happening. Will it stop it? No. Will it reduce the occurrence of gun related crime? Yes. Will it stop law abiding citizens from getting guns? No. What is wrong with more comprehensive background checks? Do you feel there should be no background check at all?
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Laws like drug laws or driving laws, etc. when broken, only deal with victimless crimes....i.e. the only one hurt by the broken law is the person that broke it. Laws that continually reduce the number of people able to obtain a gun, with the idyllic pursuit of limiting the tools of gun violence on the street, leave a larger and larger group of people as potential victims of gun violence because of those laws. Background checks already stop law abiding citizens from getting guns. This is fully documented all over the internet. If a process or law infringes on a general citizens ability to exercise a right, then that process is much too prohibitive.
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Originally Posted by Rekna
On the same point I don't see any reason (other than ego) to own an RPG, submachine gun, or other weapons which have high rates of collateral damage.
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In a nation that was designed to keep the PEOPLE in power, over that of an oppressive government with a highly armed military at their disposal, so that individual rights could be protected, I find it sadly ironic that a large group of people are actively politicking to have that exact structure the founders were afraid to be put in to place.