Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
You are indeed capable of critical thought. Just have have to ask the right questions

Fine

Your interpretation of the constitution, and your analysis of my lack of regard of it, I suppose, is a matter of opinion.

This is the answer I was looking for, and that I knew you understood.

So, in this case, after this law would pass, and the seller sells to a felon, and the buyer buys without a check, are both of them breaking the law? If, in breaking the law, the buyer blows someone's head off with it, are they both responsible?

We have to stop looking at it like everything would prevent Newtown. If I wanted to prevent another Newtown, I could close down every elementary school. Not much could feasibly be done to prevent a Newtown.

Newtown, Aurora were used, however maliciously you may or may not believe, as a prompt to discuss steps we can take as a nation to reduce access of guns only to the people that can't, or shouldn't have them already. No one can argue with that. No one is arguing with that. That's all I'm going to take that as. I'm not going to attribute the use of Newtown as malice toward legitimate gun owners, because that is not its intent at all.

If, in these steps, a similar tragedy is prevented, or slowed down, or whatever, then we've got a bonus.
Based upon your answers, it appears that you would favor the amendment being proposed by Senator Coburn, and as you have stated, with a national firearm registry attached. The registry and the criminalization of sellers are the points of contention. I am completely opposed to those two items. I don't mind the background checks themselves, but as they have been stated to this point, they have no reasonable means to reduce criminal violence that utilized firearms, thus it is poor legislation, and better avenues of preventions should be explored.

Since Newtown and Aurora are not related to the current legislation, perhaps the Administration should not keep promoting its marketing campaign with them as the focal points.