The background check debate today

In the Washington Times, there a couple of links in regards to the debate on background checks. The first is about Senator Jeff Flake, and his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, this morning;

“We do need to strengthen the background check system, but universal background checks, I think, is a bridge too far for most of us,” Mr. Flake said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The paperwork requirements alone would be significant.”

Not to mention the time requirements for a private seller to locate someone to do his background check, pay the man and wait for the results on an already overloaded system. Phony Vietnam veteran, That Dick Blumenthal tells CNN it doesn’t matter, that any gun control is good;

“Any step that saves lives is a step in the right direction,” he said.

Polls released in the past week indicate that public support for stricter gun laws has dropped almost 10 percent since the December school massacre, when up to 57 percent of Americans supported a crackdown on guns.

So, how is anything that the government does now will save lives, especially since the feds don’t enforce the laws that are already hovering over our heads? And, of course, Mark Kelley, the husband of Gabrielle Giffords and the guy who was denied approval to purchase a scary black gun in his home state, had to weigh in on Fox News Sunday and says that any legislation that doesn’t have universal background checks is worthless;

“They absolutely have a point — I mean, they are right on that issue,” he said of the NRA. “We need to encourage states to include the mental health records … I would love to work with the leadership of the NRA, and work with the United States Senate and the House, to make sure we get those records in the system and then close the gun-show and private-seller loophole.”

But Mr. Kelly said he didn’t think the notion of universal checks paving the way for a national gun registry — a common fear of many gun-rights advocates — isn’t “logical.”

Kelly is absolutely the last guy to talk about universal background checks. First of all, his wife was shot by a fellow who passed a background check because the local law enforcement which had several run ins with Loughner never sent up a red flags about his background. He’d been threatening Giffords for more than a year, and he’d been apprehended for several run-ins at school, but never arrested.

And then there’s the whole thing about a gun dealer denying Kelly permission to buy a scary rifle and Kelley’s comments about how frightening it is that he could buy one with just a few mintues’ background check. He still picked up his 1911 although the dealer wouldn’t sell him the scary black rifle.

As far as the lie about universal background checks not turning into a “national gun registry” – if that’s true, why are Manchin and Schumer arguing over whether or not the government should destroy the records of a background check after approval is given for a transfer? Schumer won’t budge and thinks the government should keep records, while Manchin says that he opposes it.

After the transaction is approved, why would the government need to keep a record of it? Unless it’s, like Schumer said, a “backdoor” to national registration of guns?

Kelly traded away any goodwill he might have had before he went into that gun store. Who the Hell would trust Blumenthal after it was discovered that he’d been lying for years about his non-service in Vietnam? And then apologizes for it with more phony soldiers on the stage with him. Maybe the voters of Connecticut trust him, but the rest of us aren’t that gullible.

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