Gun Culture?? Many here do not realize Guns are a Hobby and a Tool and a Collectors item.

[pipoman]

85. This is just more of the same..

proposal of the impossible, denial of the truth, and unwillingness to budge like a child not wanting to eat their brussel sprouts..the chicken and the egg, ya know?

"I don't object to opening up the ability to access background checks for private sales. But I think it needs to be mandatory or people won't bother with the extra step."

It can not be mandatory at the federal level, that pesky commerce clause and all. This is so painfully easy it is unbelievable how often it is bandied about. The only hope for those interested, and don't kid yourself, the Brady's really aren't interested in fixing the private sale issue, is to make NICS available for voluntary use by private sellers, then lobby each state to legislate use of the already established access as mandatory. This is the conundrum used by the gun control activists to continue fund raising for a cure to an impossible problem and refusal to support or suggest anything which may ultimately lead to the stated goal. Face it, if private sale background checks were ultimately required at most or all state levels, what would the gun control orgs then use to raise money so the leaders could maintain their incomes?

"This isn't rocket science, and until we start taking measures to attempt to confront this problem, we have to accept that there will be a substantial level of gun violence in this country. There is no logical reason why we can't live in a safer society and still uphold the Second Amendment. Yes We Can."

No you can't. At least by screaming for an unconstitutional impossibility to the exclusion of all others.