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

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97. Car analogies don't work as well as you think.

You don't have to transfer the title to loan a car. You don't need a title at all if you don't drive it on a public road.

The same background check infrastructure will be used for private transfers as for commercial sales. Same system - same penalties - same objective. The only difference is that if a private individual sell too many guns they are considered a dealer, and a dealer has to have an FFL. Even if a new law doesn't make that distinction moot, the expansion of potential sellers will create a straw buyers market. How many millions of guns don't get sold now because the seller didn't like the buyers looks? Or do you think every private gun sale is between two shady characters? You didn't really think that, did you?

Cower in your shrinking majority while you can. It is shrinking. Fast. And as I have pointed out over and over, your argumentum ad populum doesn't prove anything. People have overwhelmingly favored a lot of bad legislation. You have failed to show they aren't making that mistake now.

Of course there is obstruction. It's called the political process. People are asking uncomfortable questions and not getting reasonable answers. Partisan orthodoxy will not suffice. Nor will squealing "NRA" and "90%".

The truth is that you've got nothing. You haven't given the issue any thought. You don't have a clue how universal background check will work, nor do you care. You have embraced the issue because it sounds good and lots of other people seem to like it. You have confused consumerism with citizenship.