Universal Background Checks for firearms

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44. Before you double down on your "believe drugs should be illegal" statement...

Often times ending the war on some drugs is proposed here. Often. Not unanimous, but I'd say it's a very strong majority of the comments I've seen. Years ago, I saw a chart on the murder rate over the 1900's and two large spikes showed up. One coincided with the 18th amendment, albeit the rate was already going up before 1920, but the decline started about the time of the repeal in 1933 and the second the ramp up of the war on some drugs you see the rate climbing in the early 1970's until it's peak around the early 1990's and it's continued decline to historic lows. Putting millions of dollars of drugs on the streets provided the buying power and motivation to protect turf and the dealers were going to jail with or without gun crimes so they had nothing to lose and everything to gain by arming up to the teeth.

Social and economic equality and security, you know, the old style democratic party stuff, are often times called for by pro gun posters.

Per an amendment to prevent confiscation, dream on folks. Even if it would be approved, the govt (both repub and democratic ones) has shown little restraint in bypassing or ignoring the majority of the BOR and finding favorable judicial rulings to cut the original Bill of Rights down to the Bill of Right and that one only covers something about state voting. Tens of thousands of law abiding Americans have had their cash seized by law enforcement and then are faced with going to court and it's attendant costs and time delays to recover their cash which is generally given as a bounty, 21st century American privateers like, to the law enforcement unit that seized the cash. Over 100,000 Japanese Americans (over 60 percent American citizens) could tell you how well they were protected by the Constitution in 1942 and not only was their internment validated in 1944 by the Supreme Court, but later records proved the Census Bureau aided in the roundup with census data.

You're not paranoid if they are really out to get you or in this case the BOR.