Federal Gun prosecutions declined under Obama AND BUSH..so why more laws??

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gun prosecutions have declined under Barack Obama and George BUSH!!!

As Congress debates whether to enact new restrictions on firearms, one argument often voiced by opponents is that the federal government should enforce existing gun laws rather than passing new ones, such as a bill now pending that would expand background checks to virtually all gun sales, including gun shows and online sales.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., made this argument on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on April 14, 2013.
Guest host Jonathan Karl asked, "But very quickly, are you going to be able to defeat the background checks?"
Sessions replied, "I don't think it's going to pass. The president of the United States has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases to go down. I was a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted those. He needs to prosecute the laws that we have today. They've declined every year since President Bush left office."

We wondered whether that was accurate, so we looked at the data.
Now, here’s some background on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The system, which began operating in 1998, is an automated system that enables a gun seller to instantly check a series of government databases to determine whether a potential purchaser is eligible to buy a gun under federal or state law.

In recent years, the Justice Department has published annual reports on how many times this system has flagged an ineligible purchaser and whether they were prosecuted. Looking back at these individual reports makes it possible to chart the number of prosecutions over time. Here’s a summary:

• 2005: 135 prosecutions
• 2006: 112 prosecutions
• 2007: 122 prosecutions
• 2008: 105 prosecutions
• 2009: 77 prosecutions
• 2010: 44 prosecutions

So it’s correct for Sessions to say that prosecutions have "declined every year" since President George W. Bush left office. Still, it’s worth pointing out two caveats.

First, data has not yet been published for the final two years of Obama’s first term. (If history is any guide, the data for 2011 should be published in August 2013.) So the number of prosecutions might have gone up in 2011 and 2012, but we don’t know yet.

Second, it’s worth noting that even though the raw numbers of prosecutions have declined in recent years, prosecutions consistently represented a tiny proportion of all flagged purchasers under both presidents. Here are the year-by-year totals:

• 2005: prosecutions accounted for 0.20 percent of background check denials
• 2006: prosecutions accounted for 0.15 percent of background check denials
• 2007: prosecutions accounted for 0.16 percent of background check denials
• 2008: prosecutions accounted for 0.13 percent of background check denials
• 2009: prosecutions accounted for 0.11 percent of background check denials
• 2010: prosecutions accounted for 0.06 percent of background check denials

PolitiFact | GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions says gun prosecutions have declined under Barack Obama

So wouldn't be right to say that it isn't the need for MORE GUN LAWS but MORE ENFORCEMENT of the already existing laws???

 

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Insanity:
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein at BrainyQuote

Writing more laws that will not be enforced IS also insanity!
Enforce the laws we have and we reduce these cases of mass shootings that have hysterical,hyperbolic "angry" Gun-ban advocates panties in a wad!

Remember these FACTS!!!

Myth: Mass shootings are on the rise.
Reality: Over the past three decades, there has been an average of 20 mass shootings a year in the United States, each with at least four victims killed by gunfire. Occasionally, and mostly by sheer coincidence, several episodes have been clustered closely in time. Over all, however, there has not been an upward trajectory.
To the contrary, the real growth has been in the style and pervasiveness of news-media coverage, thanks in large part to technological advances in reporting.

Myth: Mass murderers snap and kill indiscriminately.
Reality: Mass murderers typically plan their assaults for days, weeks, or months. They are deliberate in preparing their missions and determined to follow through, no matter what impediments are placed in their path.

Myth: Enhanced background checks will keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of these madmen.
Reality: Most mass murderers do not have criminal records or a history of psychiatric hospitalization. They would not be disqualified from purchasing their weapons legally. Certainly, people cannot be denied their Second Amendment rights just because they look strange or act in an odd manner.
Besides, mass killers could always find an alternative way of securing the needed weaponry, even if they had to steal from family members or friends.

Myth: Restoring the federal ban on assault weapons will prevent these horrible crimes.
Reality: The overwhelming majority of mass murderers use firearms that would not be restricted by an assault-weapons ban.
In fact, semiautomatic handguns are far more prevalent in mass shootings. Of course, limiting the size of ammunition clips would at least force a gunman to pause to reload or switch weapons.