NRA ‘Disappointed’ With Biden Meeting For Proposing Restrictions On Guns

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91. We can't effectively get them rounded up, and the Founder's distrust of government was well placed..

I am definitely okay with strict background checks as I definitely want to dissuade firearms in the hands of criminals and crazy people. I am also okay with increased investment in mental healthcare. What I really wish we could do is quit whistling past the graveyard on the real issue which is people shooting at each other in inner cities. Why is there not more outrage from the left on this? To me, this is a tremendously unfortunate crisis of our society. I don't mean a crisis from the standpoint that it is a threat to me- as you said, you feel perfectly safe. I am guessing you don't live in a high crime area, and while I live in a central urban area, I don't live in a neighborhood where people are killing each other in the streets. That is happening here in my city though, and it is tragedy in my mind. Where is your outrage on the crisis these folks are faced with?

Stats show again and again and again that bans don't work. I am not sure if you are saying ban future sales or confiscation of everything, but either way, you are not going to address the central issue with any real substance via a ban. There are 300 million guns in this country, and the argument that you would just be preventing law abiding people from having guns is not a straw man argument by any stretch. It is a straw man argument to point to other countries as proof positive of yuor position as you did earlier because those countries don't have 300 million guns already in circulation, and they don't have the widespread culture of gun ownership we have here. Attempting bans simply will not work, and those efforts are unfortunately just a shortsighted effort to address a more fundamental problem.

The intent of the 2nd amendment is a check against despotism, and we have just come out of a century where 250 million+ people were murdered at the hands of their own government. Look what is happening in Syria as we debate this today. I would love to think we have graduated to everlasting freedom of tyranny, but to take such a position is dangerously naive given what I have just said. And even if we could somehow magically disarm the population, then we are absolutely exposed to greater restrictions on our liberties, likely starting with oppression of dissent. It is much easier to oppress somebody's fundamental rights when they won't be reaching for a rifle to resist it... Given this position, I am very adamantly opposed to any sort of registry, as I cannot imagine any benefit that provides aside from opening us up to confiscation when the political environment seems ripe for it... If you can see another benefit of a registry, please enlighten me...