Boot,Bootstrap wrote:The gun control lobby wants person-to-person sales to use a national system that invokes the same background checks needed for other gun sales. If you don't have that, then there's really no way to keep anyone from buying weapons, no matter what their criminal history or mental health status, because someone with no restrictions can buy the gun and sell it to them. That's really quite different from making person-to-person sales illegal.Josh wrote:The gun control lobby refuses to see eye to eye with gun rights advocates on this. They want to pass laws to basically make it very difficult to legally own firearms without a big risk of accidentally becoming a criminal.
Most notable is that virtually all of the gun control lobby wants to make person to person sales illegal. In every country that’s done this, it eventually led to wholesale confiscation, like in the UK and in Australia.
Actually, polls consistently show that a sizeable majority of Americans wants universal background checks. Most Americans are sold on this.Josh wrote:The gun control lobby needs to figure out how to make right wing America plus a sizeable fraction of left wing America trust them.
And our country should not be governed by competing lobbies, it should be governed by cooperative adults working together to solve our important problems, seeking common ground.
If you aren’t willing to take a step back and consider why so many Americans don’t want the government requiring you to register with the government for person to person sales, you aren’t going to ever get anywhere with getting what you want.
Does the idea make sense to you that a lot of Americans don’t want the government to have a detailed list of who has a gun and who they bought it from?