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In reply to the discussion: Former law abiding gun owner shoots wife over dinner [View all]ceonupe
(597 posts)outside of the NRA fighting for states to create rules that allow long ago converted felons to petition courts to receive their gun rights back where has the nra advocated for felons to have guns or to shoot their wifes.
If you mean because they dont support universal background checks and thus felons have a way to break the law and buy guns they are not legally allowed to buy under the threat of at least 5 years fed time. Yes you can make the case by not supporting background checks the NRA is not doing all it could to support the goal of preventing the felons form getting guns. But the NRA im sure looks at it from the side of limiting the interference on legal gun buyers. Its a balance that i personally believe the NRA is on the wrong side of.
I think the NRA should focus on alternative legislation that resolves some of their issues (some legitimate) on guns back ground checks like secure ways for private citizens to voluntarily preform background checks on prospective purchasers or even a system that would allow Universal checks without storing information to create a register of owners or guns. but who are we kidding both sides make way to much issue and gain intensity and the public is distracted from other issues while again nothing substantial on the roots of 80% of our gun violence is never addressed.
I guess until black kids start coming to school and shooting white kids in the crossfire between rival gangs no one will look at the root causes. No one will ask where the fathers are.