RE: Uzi death
August 27, 2014 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2014 at 10:44 am by Jaysyn.)
(August 27, 2014 at 10:33 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Seriously don't understand the vehement opposition to background checks for gun ownership (and I own 4 guns!). It's just like the state revoking your driver's license if you keep endangering other people.
1.) Driving is a privilege not a right, as such it's not enumerated in our Constitution.
2.) The government has the right to regulate who is allowed to drive on their roads. You do not need a license on a privately owned road.
2.) Felons are already not allowed to own firearms (at least in my state).
3.) There are already background checks for most firearm purchases, private owners & gun shows being major loopholes.
4.) There is a real fear about using the lists generated by these background checks to assist the FedGov in rounding up people who own firearms. You can't even say something like this could never happen, because it did happen with regard to US Census data being used to put Japanese Americans into internment camps during WW2.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
