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In response to "Mandatory gun background checks face long odds in the Senate... -- (link)" by Don Homer

I just do not get this. I don't get it at all. I can't understand one bit why people would fight this.

Posted by Jim (aka Jim) Apr 1 '13, 08:35

It's not saying you can't have a gun, it's just saying you have to be background checked.

For fuck's sake, you were background checked to get the job you have that is helping you buy the gun. What the fuck is wrong with people? Why is this a hot button issue?

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if obama said he liked clean air, republicans would start burning tires in the yard -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 12:28
Having background checks also means having a giant database that includes lists of people who shouldn't have guns, and people who have guns. - Roger More Apr 1, 08:40 2
- I know you're being funny here...but that database already exists. -- nm - Jim Apr 1, 08:46 1
  - I know - but how good is the information in it? Does every state report to it properly? Does every gun vendor have to run background checks through it - Roger More Apr 1, 08:50
I personally hate the cycle this stuff goes in. We will have another shooting and it will get ramped up to 11. AGAIN. - Epiphany Apr 1, 08:39
Even more ridiculous is that the population (including both parties and even NRA members) is in favor of it. It makes no sense at all. -- nm - pmb Apr 1, 08:37 5
- and gun companies probably are as well, but they will never speak against the NRA -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 1, 08:44 2
  - that's a stretch - znufrii Apr 1, 08:46 1
    - not really, and npr had a story about this a couple of weeks ago - tRuMaN Apr 1, 08:47
- *gives Congress's nuts another squeeze* -- nm - NRA Apr 1, 08:40
- it really tells you something about how things get stopped. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 1, 08:40
I agree completely. I don't get what anyone's problem is with this at all. -- nm - Thrugood Jenkins si Apr 1, 08:36 1
- *sfan* -- nm - Krusty Apr 1, 08:37

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I just do not get this. I don't get it at all. I can't understand one bit why people would fight this.

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