Inmate Central Inmate Central, where civil and family-friendly discourse about off-audio topics (other than religion and politics) is welcome. |
|
In Reply to: RE: Under Heller, they could be compelled. posted by pictureguy on April 16, 2021 at 17:06:06:
Only licensed gun dealers need to perform criminal background checks. And they aren't very thorough. The spa shooter in Georgia, from what I've read, got his gun the same day he shot up the massage parlors.
The Manchin-Toomey bill would have required background checks for Internet sales and sales at gun shows. You would still have been able to give a gun to your spouse or kids without a background check. It even reiterated a ban on any national gun registry. Pretty small beer but it died without a vote.
FWIW, I don't think it would have worked. Crazy as it sounds, the problem isn't criminals with guns; some idiot who holds up a 7-11 isn't a mass shooter.
It should go without saying that passionate gun freaks and casual "I've got one for self-defense" folks are not the problem either. Anybody who fetishizes his AR-15 the way I do my LP collection isn't a mass shooter.
There's something endemic to the US, something in our socio-economic system that causes rage and depersonalization. We have higher levels of mental illness than the rest of the industrialized world as well. The two most common types of mass shootings are a) a guy who was known to be a dangerous nut, who scared most of the people who knew him, gets a gun and goes into a school/shopping mall/former workplace and starts killing people, saving the last bullet for himself, or b) guy with a history of domestic abuse gets a gun and kills his ex-wife, their kids, her parents, her new BF, then himself. Criminal background checks probably won't make a dent.
Our gun control laws are stuck in 1968, designed to prevent muggings and armed robberies that were common 50 years ago but are far less common today.
Maybe instead of criminal background checks, maybe it should be more like applying for security clearance. Talk to family members and employers instead of the local court system.
Of course, that has about as much chance of happening as me looking like Jon Hamm.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- There are no background checks on private sales. - ghost of olddude55 04/17/2105:04:43 04/17/21 (3)
- RE: There are no background checks on private sales. - pictureguy 11:15:08 04/17/21 (2)
- New York City has strict gun-control laws. - ghost of olddude55 11:40:47 04/17/21 (1)
- RE: New York City has strict gun-control laws. - pictureguy 00:15:12 04/18/21 (0)