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January 29, 2013, 12:16 PM | #226 | ||
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You must not remember the days when folks put ads in the paper with their home number and address and folks came over with cash and bought whatever you were selling - I do, it was NO BIG DEAL. I have sold guns at garage sales (and bought some too) where we didn't even exchange first names, let alone our entire history. YOU are free to do it anyway you want, but trying to state that we should ALL do it YOUR way or face criminal charges IS acting like Bloomberg and wanting a nanny state This is NOT something that should be anywhere near being handled at the Federal level - NO social issue is. We need this tyranny to grow smaller, not larger with more impediments in peoples' lives to do what they want with their property |
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January 29, 2013, 01:26 PM | #228 | |
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I would not sell a gun to a person with gang tats (think MS13). Yes, I would discriminate on the basis of tattoos, which is not legally prohibited. And that discrimination would not reflect in the least on whether the RKBA is or is not an essential right. |
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January 29, 2013, 01:55 PM | #230 | |
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Taking this a step further.... as judgement is clearly not universal and there are already laws on the books, what methods are available to ensure that individuals don't sell to the prohibited? |
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January 29, 2013, 01:59 PM | #231 |
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Ah, win-lose, you must be an "anti" as well. If only I could remember the secret handshake, how does it go?
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January 29, 2013, 02:15 PM | #232 | |
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In reality, I'm doing the best I can... I'm writing letters, going to rallies, donating to organizations, losing friends - all to protect my, and more importantly, my kid's constitutional rights. This is consuming most of my free time and much of my emotional energy. Unfortunately, as with any issue, there are elements that have a lot of "grey". It's these grey areas that I'm trying to work out in my head, through discussions in threads like this.... |
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January 29, 2013, 02:19 PM | #233 | |
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January 29, 2013, 02:49 PM | #234 |
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Wow wow wow.
Guys no one said that you can't discriminate. All one's choices are based on discrimination, the discriminating connoisseur of good wine. Discrimination based upon sex, race, religeon, etc .... Zis ist Verbotten
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January 29, 2013, 03:09 PM | #236 | |
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Keep the Feds out of our personal business, no matter what it is - especially social issues. There has never been a social issue program "helped" by the fed involvement that was ever worth having - every single program has been a failure with cost overruns, unintended consequences and restrictions, one size fits all mentality that fits no one and solves nothing. This becomes a mere step to total confiscation - except for the criminals - and I include the elected politicians in that group |
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January 29, 2013, 03:31 PM | #237 |
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So, if I understand this correctly...
People accept that the federal government has not made the prosecution of prohibited persons attempting to buy, or of straw purchases a priority because, in Biden's words there is no time for that; People accept that universal checks could be abused, and used to set up a national registry; People accept that in Chicago, such a system has already been used for confiscation in the past, and that in New York, they have implicitly threatened such a possibility in future (so we don't even need to look at the UK and Australia); People have heard from FFLs that the system, as it is, is overloaded and that adding to it will bog down or break the system; And yet those people still not only favor universal background checks, but they can't understand why they would be perceived as offering aid to the antis, from within our tent? Really? |
January 29, 2013, 04:47 PM | #238 | |
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Win-Lose, again here is the same old foolish concept.
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Are you ever going to get this concept? Or do you disagree? If laws actually prevented crime, we would have no crime. Laws are a guide for the law abiding and a justification to punish the law breaker. But they do not stop anything. In fact, you can not stop these acts. You can't do it, it can't be done. At least not in a free society. There are however numerous science fiction stories/movies which leverage the idea that if government exercises absolute control, and the population can be coerced or co-opted into submission, then you can get pretty damn close. I don't recall anyone who watched those shows thinking the people were getting a really good deal out of it all.
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January 29, 2013, 07:10 PM | #239 | |
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As to methods... We currently have NICS which seems to have been pretty effective at preventing FFL's from DIRECTLY selling to the prohibited. There are clearly laws supporting this system that need to be enforced. If the FFL system can be expanded/staffed to support the additional load, without firearm registration (beyond the FFL's book), with fee schedules that FFL's will be able to effectively participate and perhaps tax credits for those that use the FFL transfer, we may have a workable system. To my mind, getting prohibited individuals to participate only in the black market will go a long way to put the burden of enforcement on the feds and away from us. Like it or not, we have a very real argument ahead of us on universal background checks. When this argument is separated from all other items under consideration, we need to be able to be persuasive, on a logical level, to those who do not have the passion for the issue that we do. To date, I have not seen a single Pro Gun person being interviewed that has handled this question well. This discredits the rest of our positions because most of the population see's this as intuitively "reasonable" and without a persuasive argument, we are seen as unreasonable. So the challenge is to construct an argument that a middle of the road person (non-gunnie / non-anti) would accept as reasonable for not implementing universal background checks. |
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The problem with NICS is that we convinced ourselves of the need for it. Is there a drop in violent crime that can be associated with it? Nope. Folks just thought it was a good idea, just like some folks think banning 30-round magazines is a good idea. The Republic survived just fine for 219 years without a background-check system for firearms purchases.
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January 29, 2013, 11:58 PM | #242 | |
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Remember when Social Security was passed the government was busy telling the people "this isn't a tax" to sell the bill while at the same time arguing in front of the Supreme Court that "it's just a tax" to defend the lawsuit. Remember Obamacare is legal because "it's just a tax" instead of a compulsion. |
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January 30, 2013, 02:10 AM | #243 | ||
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Discrimination is legally prohibited when it involves state supported activities or public establishments. The "right" that is protected by the Civil Rights Act(s) is generally the right to equal access, opportunities or treatment involving things that are supposedly equally available to all. If a person goes into a store to buy the most trivial item and is turned away on a prohibited basis (race, sex, color, etc.), that refusal constitutes legally prohibited discrimination because the person was not treated fairly and equally with others, and not due to the nature of the item the person wanted to buy. |
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January 30, 2013, 09:19 AM | #244 | |
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To my mind, this subject is our achilles heal. If we don't successfully argue it, either pro with limited scope or against, it will be expanded into a significant threat (registration). |
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January 30, 2013, 10:19 AM | #245 |
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AS - since you mentioned rentals and background checks and fair housing...
Re: a universal background check... Why? Why do you want to run one? Is it to keep guns out of the hands of felons & crazies or is it because you don't want to assume a legal or moral responsibility for their actions? - this is an either or question, not a "both". W/regard to rentals.. Say a prospective tenant applied to rent my house. Frank. He's a single father with a teenage child. Frank Jr. Should I be allowed to deny the house to him because he has a teen age child? I can run a background check on him, but, not the teen age child since those records aren't available. What happens if his teen age child breaks the law? Should I , as a landlord, be responsible for that child's actions? What if the crime is committed, say, 250 feet away from the property line and in a public park? Should I still be held liable? Now, let's say you sell a gun to Frank. Frank has a clean record and passes the check no problem. Frank's teen age kid , Frank Jr. is a different story. That little delinquent has been in trouble for years. Should you still be legally or morally responsible if Frank Jr. busts open the gun safe and shoots up the neighborhood? Heck, I'll even go you one further.... If Frank and Frank Jr. live in my rental house, should I be responsible for the little creep getting his hands on a gun and blazing away at the neighborhood? I'm curious - where do you draw the line here? Last edited by Hal; January 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM. |
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From your arguments it sounds as though "something must be done". I am arguing that nothing must be done and that already too much has been done to no effect. This is because of this same foolish concept that you can make the world safe with laws. It's just stupid. If this were the case murder would have ceased the moment Moses unveiled God's Ten Commandments, or surely after Charlton Heston took them to the big screen. It is already against the law to kill people without cause. It is already against the law for a prohibited possessor to have a gun. It is already against the law to knowingly sell a gun to a prohibited possessor. But trying to make it impossible for a prohibited possessor to obtain a weapon is foolish because you just can't do it. You can only punish them for it if you catch them at it.
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Before I get off into this, let me clarify something. Earlier there was some business about whether or not I believed that you supported a new AWB or something about the NFA. I reviewed my posts and don't think I was the one who said you supported renewing/expanding/etc. those things. Just to make it clear for the record: I'm not saying that you support those things.
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The underlined section indicates to me that you believe that I cannot legally decline to sell a person my firearm based solely on his race or religion, as that would violate his civil rights under the CRA or the 2A. Is that a correct understanding? My contention is that I, acting only as an idividual, can legally decline to sell under those circumstances, without violating his civil rights under the CRA, or the US Constitution. Now, let's look at a couple of other quotes from your last post: Quote:
However, statements of "should" and "should not" indicate judgments of value, of right and wrong, better and worse. The law does not generally deal in "shoulds." It deals in "shalls," "shall nots," "mays," and "musts." It tells us what we may and may not do, what we must and mustn't do, but not what we should or should not do. Your other statement is not a statement of "should," though. It's a statement of "can," by which I presume you mean "can do so legally," not "whether Spats is physically capable of" declining to sell. Quote:
Assuming this man is not prohibited: Does that man have a 2A right? Yes. Does he have a right to purchase a firearm? Yes. Does he have a right to purchase my firearm? No. Do I have a right to dispose of my own personal property? Yes. Does he have a right to purchase my firearm, sufficient to trump my right to dispose of my property? No. The CRA was enacted in 1968 to protect minorities from discrimination in matters made available to the public at large, and state or governmental matters. Voting, housing, public facilities. (I seem to recall a case invovling the Howard Johnson's line of hotels and restaurants, for example.) In discrimination law, there are several protected classes (race, religion, gender, age, for example) and protected activities (voting, public facilities, education, housing, and employment for example). The private purchase of firearms, from private individuals, is not included in the list. If we were talking about the purchase of a firearm from a store, held out to the public for public business, that would be a different story. The CRA was not enacted in such a way that it protects from purely private discrimination. Whether or not it should have been is an entirely separate question. Whether I believe the 2A is an "essential right," does not enter into the equation. The 2A right, on the other hand, was enumerated at the end of the 18th century, but that right, RKBA, is not listed in the CRA. So it's not covered by that. Bear in mind, though, that the 2A wasn't even incorporated to the states until 2010, IIRC. In other words, SCOTUS hadn't even told states that the 2A applied to them until 2A. Just because a provision is in the US Constitution does not automatically mean that it applies to the States. As it stands now, though, it has finally been incorporated, which means that States must comply with it. That means that State are now limited in what laws they may enact in restricting the RKBA. It does not mean that private individuals may be forced to sell their private property to other private individuals.
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January 30, 2013, 11:36 AM | #248 | |
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Again, to date, I have not heard one persuasive argument from ANY figurehead against background checks. Most completely evade answering the question posed. This is very dangerous. I see the purpose of this thread to attempt to produce such arguments. |
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It really is as simple as that. Mandatory background checks, as proposed by the federal government, usurp the rights of a state to regulate intrastate commerce. |
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As such, expanding it to cover everybody results in huge outlays in terms of infrastructure. That means taxpayer money, and a lot of it. All that would be for naught if proponents have no proof it'll do any good. And the burden of proof should be on those proposing it, not on us. Though I have no idea where they got this number, the anti-gun crowd is crowing that 40% of guns are purchased at gun shows without background checks. Let's accept that figure for the moment. Less than 1% of crime guns are acquired at gun shows, whereas 13% of crime guns are purchased at retailers. By that logic, the NICS system makes us less safe. OK, maybe that's a bit loopy (and a bit snarky, sue me), but I'm not seeing the problem that universal checks are going to fix.
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