You do realise that when you buy a gun, you are already subject to a background check, right?
You are right, which makes your questioning of someone saying it wouldn't have prevented the Sandy Hook massacre even more crazy. As you just pointed out, because it was already there.
The proposed legislation simply sought to broaden the coverage of those background checks, to make them mandatory for sales where no previous background check was needed.
Yes, that was all it simply did. I didn't read the text of it to know it adds health privacy exemptions or directs the attorney general to keep a list of all approved guns. It is just simply a "broadening."
And this broadening, of course, creates a pain in the ass for people who look to buy a gun off a friend in a quick impulse buy while visiting, or while at a gun show, or receiving it as an inheritance. We have the worlds largest yard sale (127 Yard Sale) go near my house. Churches and community centers rent out spots on their land to hundreds of vendors as a fund raiser. Some of those vendors are selling guns, and some working antiques or replicas. How the hell is he supposed to run background checks from the middle of a field?
It's unrealistic legislation that risks private information leaks and is unfeasible to carry out. Nevermind that they cannot guarantee it can be completed in 48 hours. They basically were killing a large part of the collector market. But they are just second-class citizens that Biden thinks get of on holding the gun like some would driving a Ferrari.
That's nothing more than paranoid rhetoric. When has your government ever made a serious effort to take your guns from you? And why do you seem to think that this is just the first step in a greater plan to do exactly that?
Didn't I say if? Yes, yes I did. Quit taking words out of my mouth.
That said, they violate the 4th and 6th amendment protections of every airline passenger, as well as some citizens at home. But it is to prevent a tragedy caused by a statistical anomaly, so it is all good.
And there are some who want to take all guns, so there is a movement to do it, even if it is small right now.
Again, they are already subject to a background check when they buy from a store. You have the right to buy a gun - but you cannot purcahse one without submitting to a background check.
You asked why they are trying to buy a gun. I gave you a reason. If the store is too expensive, the check can't be completed in time, etc, etc. they have a number of legitimate reasons to not want the check.
I'm not being unreasonable here. A check for a criminal history at a dealer store is a reasonable thing. Extending that check the way they want to, to unfeasible and unenforcable situations and opening your medical records and putting you on file with the government is too far.
Try telling that to the families of anyone who ever lost someone to a mass shooting.
Heart strings, really? I thought I covered my thoughts on putting your soapbox on the graves of victims.
But just so you know how effective that pathetic ploy is with me, my wife tries it every single time I let our daughter do something that all the "experts" say is dangerous, like eating peanut butter. I tell her it is all just a bunch of highly unlikely scenarios overblown by super paranoid idiots, and she pulls the "tell that to the families of the dead children" line out. Find some new overly predictable material. You aren't getting anywhere with that.
This is an attitude that I've seen from a lot of gun advocates: that your right to own a gun is more important than someone else's right not to be afraid that one statistical anomaly will take their life
Because history has shown us that power is most abused in those situations. By the way, do you think that violent video games should be heavily regulated, or even banned in the off chance they do create violent sociopaths? If not then;
And tell it to the families of the kids killed by video gamers (all mass shooters, apparently).
and that your fear that the government is somehow conspiring to take your guns from you is more genuine than the grief the families of victims feel. It's appallingly selfish.
I don't fear it. I don't even own a gun for them to take. But I won't open doors for them to do it. And I won't tolerate politicians, like Bloomberg, saying they can do it.
Now, get off the graves. It's disrespectful.
If gun control advocates really cared about taking guns away from the criminals, this would be the point they would be pushing, so thank you for bringing it up. 👍 At least this & IMO, requiring private firearm transactions to go through FFL. 
