A Boston URL wants to know what is wrong with Universal background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
well, first, there is the well documented problem that criminals do not buy guns from gun dealers or law abiding citizens, they buy guns from other criminals, or steal guns for their own use and to sell. Since criminals only rarely – less than 1 in 100 even attempt to buy a gun from a citizen or a dealer – background checks amount to a lot of expensive wheel spinning for no legitimate purpose.
Then there is the documented fact that the decline in the gun related crime rate stopped falling on the day the FBI’s NICS System went into effect, November 30, 1998.
And then there is the fact that most Universal Background Check laws provide the State with a permanent record of the gun seller and the gun buyer, something that has an evil history.
Turkey knew had guns when the Yount Turks ordered the Armenia minority to turn their guns in. Since the Armenians knew gun owners were were known to the State, they complied. And were promptly forced to march to a wasteland with no food and little water, where they died.
Stalin changed Trotsky’s liberal gun policy, confiscating all guns not property of Party officials, and then began the “Death by Starvation” campaign against the Ukranians and at least three other ethnic groups within the Soviet Union.
A NAZI Party Membership card was a gun permit in pre WWII Germany, and the Jews, Roma, and others were unable to resist with the SS loaded them in cattle cars on their way to extermination camps.
And on and on, for a total of well over 262 million known victims of demicidal regimes carried out because the Tyrant had a list of gun owners in his custody.
That is three strikes against Universal Background Checks, and in gun owner registration and licensing in general. Three strikes and you are out in anyone’s ball game.
Stranger