What can possibly be tighter, and what gun violence are you talking about? You are very educated person, that is fully capable of working with statistics. An FBI uniformal crime report shows, that every single category of crime decreases steadily since 1993. Including murder. Despite the number of guns in the hands of civilians TRIPLED in the meantime. Democrats are merely fueling the paranoia by constantly repeating the words "gun violence". Same as Trump, that is repeating "mexican" (or muslim) threat.
The background check exists since 1993 (brady bill), and is mandatory for every purchase thru the FFL. There is also the so called loopholes, where private citizens can sell guns to each other. Every single mass shooter either bought their guns legally, passing the background checks, or aquired them illegaly (like Lanza, who killed his mother, or st. Bernardino terrorists, who's friends commited a straw purchase on their behalf), meaning no new gun laws could stop them. Not a single one used this loophole either, so any new regulation, prohibiting such transaction will be merely a kneejerking for the sake of prohibition without any real effect. So, how can we do the background checks tighter, that would possibly have any effect?
There are indeed quite few things, that should be done. I can share my thoughts on it, if you are interested.
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Date: 2016-01-16 05:16 pm (UTC)The background check exists since 1993 (brady bill), and is mandatory for every purchase thru the FFL. There is also the so called loopholes, where private citizens can sell guns to each other. Every single mass shooter either bought their guns legally, passing the background checks, or aquired them illegaly (like Lanza, who killed his mother, or st. Bernardino terrorists, who's friends commited a straw purchase on their behalf), meaning no new gun laws could stop them. Not a single one used this loophole either, so any new regulation, prohibiting such transaction will be merely a kneejerking for the sake of prohibition without any real effect. So, how can we do the background checks tighter, that would possibly have any effect?
There are indeed quite few things, that should be done. I can share my thoughts on it, if you are interested.