Are we doing ourselves any favors repeating this 90% number?

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94. So

how do you feel about eighty million gun dealers? If you require universal background checks, that will turn every gun owner into a gun dealer. If you think straw purchases are bad now, wait until you take responsibility for each and every gun transfer made. I mean, if you're going to take responsibility there's no need for anybody else to give it a second thought. Imagine how the bad guys will feel about that! Wow! It'll be like a gun store every twenty feet. I expect firearms manufactruers will love it too. Opening up markets is always good. Fine disaster capitalist libertarian thinking there.

Yes, stopping any kind of violence is a worthy goal, but only if it actually helps people. If you successfully stop violence on Oak street because somebody couldn't get a gun, how do we know your proposed legislation won't keep somebody on Maple street from defending themselves because they couldn't get a gun? And when you demand people jump through hoops because you suspect they will screw up, and they get brutalized because they couldn't jump through the hoops properly, they tend to vote your politicians out of office. That leaves Democrats wandering in the political wilderness scratching their heads wondering why people voted against their economic interest.

You have yet to explain how a universal background check law will actually work.

You have yet to explain the actual impact of such a law on the public.

You have yet to actually explain anything.

Please link to a post where you have actually discussed the issues I raised in post #53.