Dr Grump
Platinum Member
Your response does not negate the validity of my point.Yeah, please don't check if somebody has just come out of the looney bin.Um... where?
Background checks are a form of prior restraint.
Prior restraint is an infringement.
The right shall not be infringed.
Straw, man.Naw, hand them a peashooter as they walk out the gate....
It absolutely does. What you are trying to say is, that because you think your rights might be infringed that it better to allow loons to be armed than infringe on what you think might be lost.
To which I say "bollocks". The collective freedom and safety of the people (ie, not having to worry about somebody who is a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic running around shooting folks) is more important than what you think you have 'lost'. If you think every Tom, Dick and ex-Felon should have a firearm, go live in Somalia.
Straw man my arse....it's a valid point and you know it. You want the Constitution of 1776 to apply? Go find a time machine and go live there. Times change, thus the amendment process to your constitution...
Don't worry, nobody wants to take your peashooter away from you, just those who don't have the mental wherewithall to be in control of one, or those that have shown in the past (ie ex felons) that they should never have a firearm...