So it turns out that pro-gun proponents don't really support background checks after all

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61. No, I don't recognize that good has been done with guns

when used against other human beings, but I do recognize they are at times a necessary evil.

There are many existing laws and bills governing universal background checks. I am not a legislative aid. My OP specifically said you should tell your representative about the version you support. You see, it has never occurred to me in my life that legislation should be exactly as I want it. I am not a person born into privilege, and I am a woman. The world has ever revolved around me, and I have never expected it should. So I haven't dreamed up an ideal bill because that would be an exercise in futility. Okay, when I was 17, I wrote a college paper about a socialist utopia, but I was 17. I grew out of it, and even then I never believed it would really come about. So I refer you to the Tooney-Manchin amendment and any number of state bills and laws. Take your pick. Imagining an ideal one here would be no more than mental masturbation. I want to see more guns go though them and less guns in the hands of felons and the dangerously mentally ill. That's it. I'm open to all kinds of compromises to protect the rights of law abiding gun owners but not felons or the profits of the gun lobby.

I can't possibly even imagine what harm would come to you from going though a background check unless you are a felon, in which case you shouldn't have gun. It might take you an hour longer to buy a gun. Is that really such a big deal? Limiting access to guns for the mentally ill adjudicated dangerous will likely save many lives from suicide. I think that matters great deal. Those are people the least likely to obtain illegal weapons if it becomes more difficult to do so. Since suicides are the primary use of guns, I would think would be significant. I don't happen to think people deserve to die because they have a mental illness, as many here casually dismiss their deaths.