A question for opponents of gun control?

Question

I see it often stipulated by that side that people on my side (those in favor of gun regulations) are simply "anti-2nd Amendment." But since the Second Amendment does not preclude gun control laws, and since most crimes committed with guns are committed NOT by responsible, trained gun owners but by psychotic criminals who have no business owning dangerous weapons... what, exactly, is the opposition to things like background checks?

I see many people who need to buy themselves a dictionary and look up the word "infringed."

Answer 1

I like background checks, at least they delay a criminal getting his hands on one, until he can find it on the black market, or steal one.

Answer 2

Simple. Background checks and other "control" measures are worthless. When you make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to own guns, fewer will. In other words, you're making it more difficult, costly, and time consuming for law abiding citizens to defend themselves from criminals or government agents (the original intent of the 2nd amendement, by the way). The criminals DON'T CARE about gun control laws. They don't purchase their weapons "legally," anyway. So, you end up reducing the number of law abiding citizens who are able to stop crimes in progress because the criminals are better armed.

The county I live in implemented a concealed carry law with low requirements about two years ago. Violent crime rates have fallen drastically since then amid a WORSENING economy in the county. Point is, gun ownership works to safe guard everyone, not just the owner. An armed society is a polite society.

And, yes, the 2nd amendment DOES preclude Federal gun control laws. What do you think "shall not be infringed" means? It is very clear to anyone who isn't a lawyer, a Federal judge, or a weasel.

Answer 3

To most folks a gun is a tool and a possession or personal property just like a car or a chain saw. When you go to purchase a butcher knife or a double bit ax or any other dangerous weapon for that matter there is no background check. If the stinking, lowdown violent criminals with a record were kept separated from society, where they belong, there would be no need for background checks. Now would there. The only reason we have the problem with these violent felons being loose in our society is because of liberal gun grabbers that vote in idiot judges and polititions that appoint more idiot bleeding heart judges that believe criminals have more rights than good, clean living, law abiding citizens. When a person commits and is convicted of two violent felonies he should be removed from society for the rest of his life. I own several assault style weapons and will never give them up no matter what scheme the government comes up with to try to confiscate them. If you don't like guns there are many other countries (Great Britain or Australia) that have outlawed them that you can move to because you are going to have a bloody fight on your hands if you or anybody you elect to represent you try to take mine. I F**KING HATE LIBERAL TYRANT WORSHIPERS!!!! If they had been around in 1776 we'd still be a colony of the crown. By the way I am THE ALL AMERICAN!!!!

Answer 4

The anti gun crowd often will say that somehow the wording of the 2nd Amendment makes it a collective right while the wording of every other amendment applies as an individual right. This argument makes no sense to me at all and I have yet to see anything except a weak argument in the case of Miller vs. US back about 70 years ago. There are numerous quotes by the founding fathers to include Thomas Jefferson and Mason that makes it clear that the individual has the right to own and bear arms. Next I would say that most gun owners are in rural areas. Gun control is far less prevalent in rural state than it is states with larger cities such as NY IL and CA. Texas may be the one exception as it has both large cities and miles and miles of sparsely populated areas. People who live in large cities are are more afraid of the criminal element than they are of the police are likely to own the a gun .

Answer 5

Most pro-gun people have no problem with INSTANT background checks. In fact, I think the Republicans even offered a bill to have instant background checks on guns. But the Democrats blocked it. Because they don't really want background checks. What they want are 72 hour background checks. And the reason they want them is to make it more inconvenient for people to buy guns. Most gun shows are for less than 72 hours, so having to go through a 72 hour background check before you can buy a gun would cause huge problems for all gun shows.

Answer 6

First there will be background checks, even though criminals lie or steal guns, or buy them on the black market.
After the background checks don't work, there will be the predictable demand for registration, which will tell the government who the responsible gun owners are and what they own. The criminals still won't register their guns.
After registration fails to lower crime levels, the government will confiscate the guns from the legal gun owners, since they have their names. But the criminals with their unregistered guns will be free to prey on anyone, since the law abiding people will be disarmed at this point.
Pretty obvious, England is going through this problem right now. But Democrats don't care, they just want the law abiding gun owners disarmed. Kind of like how every tyrant and dictator disarmed his subjects.

Answer 7

You know what "networking" is, right. Well network a little for someone with a gun for sale. Thats how easy it is to get one, or a dozen. No background checks, no registration, no traces, zip.

This is a huge hole in a network of laws that have proceeded in a step by step manner in England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, etc. with the sole end of taking away everyones gun to aid in the control of the population. In the end of it all, only the criminals and the police are armed.

The best way to prevent this is to deny the government the laws in the first place and since they solve nothing, prevent nothing, and mean only to subvert the population, why let it happen. Most people are too short sighted and ignorant of history to think in geopolitical terms but someone has to, right.

Answer 8

I don't think the background checks are the issue they have. When everyone uses the words "gun control", they typically mean creating laws that control the distribution of certain types of guns, like semi-automatic weapons, and the like. That IS a direct violation of the second amendment.

I think what everyone fails to grasp is that the criminals don't typically follow the laws or procedures anyways. How is a background check going to stop Joey Bagadonuts from getting a gun to use in an armed robbery? All the background check is going to do is see if he has any mental issues, or a criminal record in his past. If he has neither, guess who is going to get his weapon for the armed robbery???

Answer 9

I have no problem with background checks. I also see a need for everyone to go through firearm safety training prior to owning a firearm. My problem is with those who think that background checks will reduce the availability of firearms to the criminal element. It won't because criminals don't get their weapons from legitimate sources. As long as the background check can be done electronically with the same speed as a credit card purchase at a department store, it's fine with me. But, once again, reducing the supply of firearms won't reduce the homicide rate. Boston has almost banned possession of a hand gun. Murders by knife and blunt instrument are going up.
So, it boils down to someone out there who is upset because someone owns something they don't like and they want to ban it. And that's a giant leap from regulation.

Answer 10

Criminals are not law abiding in the first place.. so the only people affected are the law abiding, who in some cases are made to wait, thereby, delaying a right, which they should already have. Why should i have to wait, if i have no criminal history? i have undergone background checks at every gun purchase i have made, with never a problem, but in some staes, i would need to wait days to make a purchase.. cars kill people too, is there a waiting period for those? what about matches? ball bats? knives?

Answer 11

I have no opposition to backround checks. I do have opposition to the goverment keeping those records for any lenth of time because it would amount to a list of gun owners.

I am against all registration/permit/license requirements. You should be able to walk into a gun store buy what you want and if you want to carry a conceled pistol that is your right.
"Second Amendment does not preclude gun control laws " yes it does, what part of shall not be infringed don't you understand?