There Is Overwhelming Support For Increased Security Checks To Buy A Gun

[g5000]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

 

[g5000]

So why was this bill defeated by the GOP Establishment?

 

[g5000]

RELEASE: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Support Background Checks, See NRA as Out of Touch, New Poll Finds

83 percent of gun owners nationally support criminal background checks on all sales of firearms, while only 14 percent of gun owners oppose them. There is strong bipartisan agreement on the issue, with 90 percent of Democrat and 81 percent of Republican gun owners in support of background checks.

So why was this bill defeated by the GOP Establishment?

 

[Brain357]

RELEASE: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Support Background Checks, See NRA as Out of Touch, New Poll Finds

83 percent of gun owners nationally support criminal background checks on all sales of firearms, while only 14 percent of gun owners oppose them. There is strong bipartisan agreement on the issue, with 90 percent of Democrat and 81 percent of Republican gun owners in support of background checks.

So why was this bill defeated by the GOP Establishment?

Minority rules right now.

 

[OldLady]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

I predict they won't believe you. They wouldn't believe me yesterday, when I gave them 5 polls. Maybe 6.

 

[g5000]

Paul Ryan the castrated RINO defeated these gun control measures. Why?

 

[OldLady]

The polls are easily manipulated! These numbers are falsified! They asked unfair questions! They're lying.
Maybe they'll believe someone who wears pants, though.

 

[Brain357]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

I predict they won't believe you. They wouldn't believe me yesterday, when I gave them 5 polls. Maybe 6.

There is a small group of very loud gun nuts who are good with arming terrorists and criminals.

 

[BlindBoo]

It's a principle thing.

The main principle is to not allow any semblance of an Obama victory.

All other priorities are rescinded.

 

[g5000]

Remarks by the President at Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil

We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law -- no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.

But that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely, we can do better than this. If there is even one step we can take to save another child, or another parent, or another town, from the grief that has visited Tucson, and Aurora, and Oak Creek, and Newtown, and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that -- then surely we have an obligation to try.

In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens -- from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators -- in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?

 

[Weatherman2020]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

It's already the law, doofus.

 

[g5000]

Donald Trump the True American who will Make America Great Again is in favor of further gun control measures, including an assault weapons ban.

Paul Ryan and the other yellow-bellied limp dick RINOs are opposed to the overwhelming Will Of The People™ who want tighter background checks.

Why?

We must get behind Trump the Patriot and support these measures. If you don't, you are a traitor who wants more Americans to die.

 

[OldLady]

Do we really HAVE to support Trump?
Couldn't we just vote in some folks who would do their job properly?
Please?

 

[DarkFury]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

Looking at YOUR chart that number has DECREASED since 2012.

 

[g5000]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

Looking at YOUR chart that number has DECREASED since 2012.

Ooooooh. It's decreased from 96 percent to just a mere piddling 92 percent. Gosh, you really got me!

 

[DarkFury]

One of the laws which was just defeated in the Senate, and which has prompted a sit-in in the House of Representatives, was a bill to close the infamous "gun show loophole". It would have expanded the use of background checks to make it more difficult for the mentally ill and convicted felons to buy a gun.

92 percent of Americans are in favor of this.

92 percent.

Looking at YOUR chart that number has DECREASED since 2012.

Ooooooh. It's decreased from 96 percent to just a mere piddling 92 percent. Gosh, you really got me!

And its from a bullsh#t site.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

“The law already requires licensed gun dealers to run background checks, and over the last 14 years that’s kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun,” said Mr. Obama, when he announced his gun-violence task force results on Jan. 16. “But it’s hard to enforce that law when as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check.”

The 40 percent figure that Mr. Obama and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, cite so frequently comes from a 1997 Justice Department survey. A closer look at that 40 percent number reveals it includes 29 percent of gun owners who said they got their guns from family members or friends and acquaintances.

That leaves 11 percent of firearms obtained through unfamiliar people. Of these, 3 percent reported they got their firearms “through the mail,” a process that requires a background check from a federally licensed firearms dealer. Four percent said “other,” and 4 percent made their purchase at a gun show.

The “gun-show loophole” is an exaggeration designed to foster the false impression that this is how the bad guys acquire firearms. A 2001 Justice Department survey found 0.7 percent of state and federal prison inmates bought their weapons at a gun show.

MILLER: The gun-show loophole myth

 

[OldLady]

Whad I tell ya.

 

[g5000]

Whad I tell ya.

Yep. You nailed it.

Here is a whole host of polls on guns, and they all show overwhelming support for increased background checks.

 

[OldLady]

“The law already requires licensed gun dealers to run background checks, and over the last 14 years that’s kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun,” said Mr. Obama, when he announced his gun-violence task force results on Jan. 16. “But it’s hard to enforce that law when as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check.”

The 40 percent figure that Mr. Obama and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, cite so frequently comes from a 1997 Justice Department survey. A closer look at that 40 percent number reveals it includes 29 percent of gun owners who said they got their guns from family members or friends and acquaintances.

That leaves 11 percent of firearms obtained through unfamiliar people. Of these, 3 percent reported they got their firearms “through the mail,” a process that requires a background check from a federally licensed firearms dealer. Four percent said “other,” and 4 percent made their purchase at a gun show.

The “gun-show loophole” is an exaggeration designed to foster the false impression that this is how the bad guys acquire firearms. A 2001 Justice Department survey found 0.7 percent of state and federal prison inmates bought their weapons at a gun show.

MILLER: The gun-show loophole myth

And next you'll explain how laws aren't actually about majority rule, huh?