No right is absolute

[krispos42]

61. *snort* Have you read DU in the past 24 hours?

Pretty much everybody here would agree this instant to outlaw all civilian gun ownership. Because, apparently, only the corporate-defending police and the military-industrial-congressional complex should have guns.

We have background checks for gun dealers. If you want to expand that, you can, but it has to be done on a state level, as this is not a federal issue. And stop calling it a gun-show loophole; it's not.

Part of the problem is that some states are far behind in their reporting of mental and criminal records to the background check system. If the information isn't accurate and timely, this reduces the ability of the background checks to help.

The killing we continue regardless, I fear. Our non-gun homicide rate is as high or higher as the total homicide rate in many western European countries, so it's pretty clear that the core problem of our higher homicide rate (which dropped in half from 1991 to 2004) is our society... economy, education, drug war, prison system, etc.


And there are plenty of gun laws already on the books on a federal and state level.