A Case For The Check.

       On the anniversary of the Newtown massacre it's time to remember the background check that doesn't happen. The undone background check that allows any criminal or mentally incompetent to step up to the vendor and put his money down and buy any conceivable firearm with any size or capacity magazine and any amount of ammunition and immediately walk out with that weapon and go anywhere and either resell it to another criminal or use it himself to kill as many people he wants in as short a time as possible.
       Now this criminal can't go into any gun shop or store that sells guns and purchase those guns without a background check. Anyone who goes into that gun shop or store is in no way harmed unless he is a criminal. No honest hunter, sport shooter or gun owner has ever been harmed by a background check.
       It has been said that criminals will get guns, no mater whether or not there are background checks. And at least in the short term, that is true. But as guns become less and less available, those incidents of gun violence will inevitably become fewer and fewer through attrition. And still no legitimate buyer will be harmed by a background check.
       So why is it that the NRA is so vehemently oppose background checks? Background checks that they used to support? The answer is simply that the support the NRA receives from  gun manufacturers has increased to the point that the vast majority of all their income comes from those manufacturers. And, the more guns manufacturers sell, the more their profits soar. These gun manufacturers don't want anything to slow those sales. Even the fear they suggest increases their sales.
       So I guess, if you are a strong supporter of gun manufacturers and don't care about people, then continue to oppose any kind of gun legislation. But if you support hunters or sport shooters or gun owners and you do care about people, then you need to support at least background checks.