But background checks can't work because it won't end all gun crime and/or accidents. Also because people still die in cars and pools. Instead of wasting time and money on this, we should work to arm all school kids with semi-automatics so they'll be safer.

True 'criminals' will still get guns, and I wouldn't think they would be likely to the local gun shop and bother with paperwork anyway. They use them for a hold up, to shoot other criminals, etc... It's the people without criminal records, let's say the guy down the street, with a gun in his vehicle. Maybe his road rage gets out of control one day after he loses his job and his girlfriend dumps him... It's that unstable individual, who may not have a criminal record, who may otherwise be a coward; this is the guy I'm worried about.

Seems criminals are a bit more focused in their targets (could be wrong here), they don't seem to be the ones walking down the street with assault rifles shooting whatever moves, or storming into movie theaters and schools and randomly slaughtering people.

That ad is weak sauce. It's a waste of money to run it. It'll be completely ineffective if not counter-productive.

It needs to have some real emotion in it; something to fill the audience with heartache or outrage.

The very easy response to this ad: Those UNAMERICAN SISSIES are coming to take OUR guns.

Step it up, or go home.

Great ad. I love it! It's about time someone shared facts with people in our state. I hope the ad buy is big . . . bigger than the NRA and its cronies can muster.

The fact still remains that there is no way to enforce background checks on private sales without universal gun registration.

And because criminals won't submit to background checks or register their weapons, it's a stupid law. More feel-good bullshit from the left designed to piss off law abiding gun owners.

5) Why would a background check piss you off?

@6: Because it's purposeful harassment of people who aren't the problem. My longtime neighbor and I both have a bunch of hunting shotguns, and loan them to each other all the time. Under this law, we can either pay for the privilege of doing that (in both directions), or commit a felony.

I realize this is a feature, not a bug, for the backers. But harassing Elmer Fudd is a waste of time and energy when you have career violent criminals out on the streets and not enough cops to go after them.

@5: so you're for universal registration, then?

we're finally getting somewhere!

#8

Nobody has ever been able to explain to me how universal gun registration will prevent crime.

And nobody has ever been able to explain to me why criminals will register their guns.

@9 One argument is that registration can promote responsibility. Gun owners might be nudged to keep better control of their firearm - or just have fewer of them - if, via registration, they were accountable (in whole or part) for whatever crimes are committed with it.

Registration, alone, does not make it so.
It's just a step.

The NRA is for gun rights, especially for felons and lunatics. That's why it lobbies against common sense measures like this one and is always lobbying to cut funding for the ATF to actually enforce the law against bad gun shops (Bulls Eye anyone?) Keep in mind that the NRA is nothing more than a front group for the arms industry for which a sale is a sale.