THE Gun Thread

[onlinebiker]

Your dogmatic faith in background checks rivals the Jebus freak' s faith that they will party with their invisible friend for eternity.

A background check only shows PAST behavior. 
It will show you who has been a bad person - and we assume from that they will be bad in the future. Right?

So checking EVERYBODY - (and the vast majority will show up as good to buy guns. Right?) wastes the majority of the law enforcement resource.

It would be far better to simply make it possible for the average person to be able to access a list of potentially bad people.

A background check may only show past behavior, but past behavior is often a good indicator of future behavior. Fun fact: a study of mass shootings from 2014 to 2019 found that 2/3 of mass shootings are linked to domestic violence. Bar people with a history of domestic violence from gun ownership, we’ll likely see less gun violence. And add more things to the stuff to check, things like promotion of political extremism on social media profiles or checking the applicant’s medical records, and I suspect things will go further down.

So on this we agree.

And on that generally accessible list of potentially bad people, who do you think should be expected to maintain it and what do you expect the people who access it to do about it?


One of the big problems is the non- standardization of data and policing agencies not sharing data.

The local cops don' t always share info with the state police, who don' t share with the FBI, who doesn'r share with BATF, or EPIC or other such agencies...

We as a country have an adversion to BBS - big brother syndrome. We don' t like being watched for the most part. ( if watching or being watched is your thing - have at it.)

We have and should expect some right to privacy.

But - that right CAN be taken away if a court decides to do so.

If you run afoul the law - we should be able through the courts to make a note of it in a centralized data base. If you run afoul the law and we decide you should not be allowed to own firearms - that too should be in the same data base.

Your personal ID should have that last bit shown with a nice large NO GUNS logo.

No more background checks needed

It is much more effective and efficient than what we are doing now.

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