Why are some republicans against the Brady bill?

Question

It is a bill that requires a waiting period for purchase of handguns...it is also in response to a man, James Brady (beloved hero) who was shot during an assasination attempt on Ronald Reagan (beloved conservative).

There is a waiting period for abortions...it is called informed consent, and forces you to educate yourself on all options. i would LOVE to see that with gun ownership!

Taking a bullet for the president makes aomeone a hero in my book. And I'm not a liberal...just patriotic

Answer 1

Because many of the Republican strongholds are in the South, and are part of the good ol' boy network. They are hunters and don't like any type of gun control, even if it could save people's lives. I don't see a lot of people hunting with handguns. But many see it as a slippery slope, where they will eventually try to control sporting arms too. This is an ignorant point of view, but so are many Republican views for that matter.

Answer 2

Why are you blaming the Republicans? 2 of the significant fighters to the Brady bill were Democrats Tom Foley and bill McCollum. you're actually over-simplifying what the Brady bill replaced into about. The Brady bill required a 5 day waiting era on each and every sale of a handgun. It positioned the load for checking backgrounds on interior sight regulation enforcement. the unique bill also reported that if a history examine ought to not be finished interior the mandatory 5 days the sale must be voided and the technique had to be all started back. The bill finally exceeded after some adjustments. Has the bill stopped gun violence? the city of Chicago has guidelines making unlawful to personal or own a handgun interior the city yet 32 college age toddlers were killed this college 365 days. All of those handguns were illegally owned. Gun guidelines by no skill avert gun crimes. Gun guidelines in elementary words influence those who follow the guidelines. Criminals do not follow guidelines. If criminals will purchase guns illegally, who's meant to be stopped from procuring guns with techniques from gun guidelines?

Answer 3

If you don't live anywhere near a gun store it is actually a big imposition adding significantly to the price of the gun. While the waiting period was in effect you could not purchase handguns same day at gun shows, so if the vendor was from a remote part of your state you would need to arrange to have it shipped to a store near you and pay that store fees for handling the transaction.

The Brady bill had nothing to do with preventing crime, it is all about making it more difficult for people who follow the law to purchase guns. They want to disarm us so the socialists can take over.

Answer 4

"The fact is that there are 20,000 gun laws already on the books, seventeen of which were violated by the Columbine killers. What would one more law accomplish that the other 20,000 could not? Especially one which would merely mandate background checks on buyers at gun shows? Is there any evidence that these shows are the sites of a significant number of criminal purchases, or that such legislation would have any effect on armed crimes? The Brady Bill has been violated on 250,000 occasions [as of 1999] according to police records, but not a single violator has been punished. Is there any correlation at all between stringent registration laws and low gun deaths? Social scientist John Lott has just published a study that claims that communities in which citizens are armed have lower incidences of gun violence than communities where guns are relatively absent. In places where gun violence has actually been reduced, like New York, where the murder rate has been cut by a phenomenal sixty percent, the reason appears to be aggressive police methods, which have come under fire from many of these same liberals who think gun control is the answer."

Answer 5

Because, I think, it was a reaction to an event which affected his life rather than a long-held position. That said, it also imposes limits on gun ownership to an extent and it seems that no matter what limits are placed, gun adovocates are against them.

Frankly, I don't think it does all that much anyway and even a small waiting period for some weapons isn't that big of a deal. For example, I can buy a weapon from a private citizen or at a gun show with no waiting period (I think). Plus, does one really need a gun that fast that a few days will that much of a difference?

Answer 6

I think you should leave out the discussion about killing unborn children. It is not pertinent to the subject at hand.

I'll give you several reasons.
1. Bad laws are made with good intentions. The Brady bill is a perfect example. It intrudes into the lives of good and honest citizens and their right to own and carry a firearm. (Our Constitution is the highest law of the land and it clearly says that Americans have this right.) So the Brady Bill hinders American citizens in their lawful rights. It fails to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals. So the bill costs us lots of money to enforce but fails to in it's stated purpose.
2. The Brady Bill is often used as a steping stone to attempt to intrude further on Americans rights to own a hand gun. Since the bill fails to keep guns out of criminal hands, Liberals now say "We need more gun laws!" So one bad law often leads to another and another. We don't need one bad law. We certainly don't need dozens more. This is the politics of 'feel good intentions' and not intelligent concideration.

Two last additional points.
1.James Brady was not a beloved hero. He was on Regans staff and an unknown until he got shot. I'm not belittling James, simply pointing out that Republicans don't become heros unless they get shot. At least as far as most Liberals are concerned.

2. It is a fact that everywhere in America, where honest law abiding citizens are free to own and carry firearms, there you will find the lowests crime rates. Where you find government intervention and laws forbiding firearms, there you will find the highest crime rates.

Good luck!

Answer 7

because it goes much further than a waiting period.it's been admitted by anti-gun liberals pushing the brady bill,that it was just a foot in the door for a national ban on all private firearm ownership. I believe the quote was:"this is just the nose of the camel."

Answer 8

This is an unfair question that serves only to further drive a dividing wedge into our society.

I know "some Democrats" who are against the Brady Bill too.

Bottom line, the issue of gun rights in this country is not limited to one of political affiliation.

Answer 9

Brady bill doesn't stop bad guys from getting guns. It just stop good guys from buying a gun and taking it home the same day.

Answer 10

laws are just that laws. if we inforced all the ones already on the books things would be better. And anybody that is going to go through the process of the brady bill would be less likely to use them for harm. If you want to cause harm you can get them in other means. its just a waste of paper.

Answer 11

1. The Brady Bill was passed in 93 and went into effect in 94.
2. which GOP members are you citing as being against it?

As far as I know it received most opposistion from the NRA