I will not offer "thoughts and prayers" for the victims in Orlando

[pipoman]

69. A lot

For instance, big gun control has done nothing but pretend first about the "gun show loophole" until every thinking mind knew there was no "loophole". Now "Universal Background check"...same song, same verse, different name...they raise most of their money fooling people that their donation will help fight the NRA, Republicans, and all the other boogie men they pretend are the impediment to federally mandated background checks on intrastate private sales of used guns...they know that the federal government has no jurisdiction over people selling their private property to other residents within their state, they pretend it ain't so to raise money.

If they wanted to actually fix something they would lobby for making NICS actually possible to use for private sales voluntarily...frankly this could be done by executive order...

They would lobby for criminal and civil immunity for former owners for crimes committed by guns sold through the system.

They would set up kiosks at gun shows to conduct bg checks and public information about the liability for not using the system if the gun is later used in a crime.

No, they aren't interested in reducing, they are interested in working through to retirement simply by waiving a red flag.