I gotta go along with conservatives on this one. Everyone wants to prevent guns from falling into the hands of bad guys, but the current rush to fix the system has some downsides.
Things are being overlooked.
First, not one proposal coming out of Washington — heavier restrictions, stronger laws, increased background checks — would have prevented the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. The owner of those weapons was a perfectly responsible, law-abiding citizen who (probably) would have easily passed any and all background checks with no trouble, and therefore would have still been able to purchase every weapon she owned. The problem was, she gave birth to a wacky son. Solution: Ban law-abiding parents from bearing wacky sons.
Second, bad guys don’t like background checks, which leaves just three primary ways they can obtain their goals. They can steal guns from their kinfolk (a la Sandy Hook), they can buy from a gun show or they can seek out someone selling guns from the back of a Buick in a dark alley.
Every week, millions of guns are sold out of Buicks. By implementing greater background checks at gun shows, Washington elevates and aids the thankful Buick owners who sell in those dark alleys.
Suddenly, they become the only game in town from which the bad guys can secure their weapons. Imagine the increase in Buick sales and entrants into that kind of business.
Think about it. Washington is about to produce a new American monopoly.
Guns for sale in the alley — open all night!