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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
If the guns were stolen, then they wouldn't belong to the seller anyway, so the implication is really false.
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The implication is that the guns are "illegal", so it's not only not false, but it's perfect.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
There are many ways to bypass a background check, which is why there shouldn't even be one. All the system does is retard the ability of decent people to buy guns.
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Bias impacted opinions aside, that's the worst reason to get rid of a law in history. "Some people get around it, so it should be abolished".
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Again, why are we criminalizing mere possession? Possession should not be a criminal act, the actual crime of violence with the weapon is what we should be pursuing.
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You're right. If the FBI finds an Islamic fundamentalist group in the US with a nuclear weapon we're SOL because they only have the weapon. It's just possession, which shouldn't be a criminal act. Just because they came upon it by illegal means and they're likely to use it to kill people doesn't mean that our police should be pursuing it.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
You are seriously deluded
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Stop right there, hot shot. If you're going to head in this direction I'm leaving the thread along with all my perfectly valid points because we all know how this conversation goes once it turns from factual discussion to personal insults. Are you capable of having this discussion without insulting people?
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
if you think that every ex-con avoids possessing a gun. They are doing it in your very own neighborhood as you type and all with the current regulation there in california as strict as it is. In reality, the only ones the regulations affect are the law abiding people who wish to protect themselves.
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Unless you have evidence that ex-convicts who were convicted of gun crimes can pass background checks, I'll have to ask that you reexamine your answer or post some rather serious evidence.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
To add to this thought, WHY should an ex-con, who has supposedly paid his debt to society, be denied the right to effectively defend his own life, home, and family?
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Because paying one's debt is not the same as earning trust.