Somehow Americans have been cohersed into thinking that gun background checks are good even though nearly 50% think that it will lead to gun confiscation. Don't they know that when the government confiscates weapons, you lose your rights?
Every nation that went onto kill millions of their citizens, ALWAYS has started with gun confiscation. Look at Russia under Stalin and China under Mao as two great examples. If we let this go on, the United States will follow that ugly tradition.
Conservative Tom
According to the survey, 48 percent said they believed the government could use background check records to guns, while 38 said the government could not. Ninety-one percent favored background checks anyway, and only 8 percent are opposed.
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Every nation that went onto kill millions of their citizens, ALWAYS has started with gun confiscation. Look at Russia under Stalin and China under Mao as two great examples. If we let this go on, the United States will follow that ugly tradition.
Conservative Tom
Gun poll: Most say background checks may bring confiscation
- 04/04/13 07:47 AM ET
A plurality of Americans believe the federal government could use information gleaned from expanded background checks to confiscate legally-owned firearms, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Thursday.
But the poll also showed support for background checks remains nearly universal.
“In every Quinnipiac University poll since the Newtown massacre, nationally and in six states, we find overwhelming support, including among gun owners, for universal background checks,” Quinnipiac University Polling Institute director Peter A. Brown said in a statement.
“American voters agree with the National Rifle Association, however, that these background checks could lead someday to confiscation of legally-owned guns.”
President Obama on Wednesday was in Denver seeking to build public support for expanded background checks, arguing it’s a common-sense approach to reducing gun violence in the country.
Obama blasted the National Rifle Association for opposing the measure, which is among the key elements in a bill Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring to the floor next month. The NRA says universal background checks are the first step toward a national gun registry.
“We’re not proposing a gun registration system, we’re proposing background checks for criminals,” Obama said, urging gun owners to “get the facts.”
“The opponents of some of these common sense [gun] laws have ginned up fears among gun owners,” the president added, alluding to the notion the government would use the registry to confiscate guns.
Background checks, once called the “sweet spot” for gun control reform by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), have faced roadblocks in Congress, as Republicans argue existing laws aren’t enforced and that the record keeping requirements it would entail are akin to a federal registry.
Some conservatives have argued that the registry could lead to the government confiscating legally-owned guns.
When the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the universal background checks bill along party lines last month, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he opposed the legislation because it could lead to “confiscation.”
Democrats say this argument is conspiratorial, and Schumer accused Grassley of “cheapening” the debate by bringing up confiscation.
When broken down along party lines, 61 percent of Republicans say background checks could lead to confiscation, against 25 percent say they could not. A majority of independents also believe this – 51 to 36. Among Democrats, only 32 percent said universal background checks could lead to confiscation.
The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,711registered voters was conducted between March 26 and April 1 and has a 2.4 percentage point margin of error.
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"When broken down along party lines, 61 percent of Republicans say background checks could lead to confiscation, against 25 percent say they could not. A majority of independents also believe this – 51 to 36. Among Democrats, only 32 percent said universal background checks could lead to confiscation."
ReplyDeleteAmericans are not stupid. They are ignorant. Half the population apparently believes this conspiracy theory. I would not have believed it was this pathetic, but I guess I was wrong.
--David
Yes, it is pathetic that so many people do not believe that background checks will lead to confiscation. The reason--background checks will NOT stop crime with guns, therefore the next step is to take another step toward confiscation, which will not work. Then another step will be taken which again will not stop crime.
ReplyDeleteEven removing ALL weapons (guns, knives, bungy sticks, numchucks, swords, rocks and bottles) will not stop crime. People will still get murdered, people will still get hurt, people will still get threatened.
We cannot make this world completely safe unless each of us are in our own self-contained bubble.
"We cannot make this world completely safe unless each of us are in our own self-contained bubble."
ReplyDeleteHey, we agree on something!
Stop signs and speed limits don't make highways completely safe, either, so I guess they are useless.
Since when do stop signs and speed limits stop crime? Did you ever notice that most people ignore the yellow caution on stop lights? How many people run yellows and even some red lights?
ReplyDeleteSo is that a reason to take down all the stop signs and stop lights? Stop all efforts at traffic control?
ReplyDeleteThis is your gun control argument applied to traffic control, drug control, etc., etc.
--David
That is a superfluousess argument.The rules of the road already exist. The rules they want to impose on us would say that you need to get a drivers license and only those who work for the department of transportation and those who can drive on two wheels down the road at 70 miles per hour!
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