I guess I am an outsider when it comes to my views on gun laws. I believe in background checks but also believe in prosecuting those who lie on the paperwork involved. I also believe that better record keeping on those who are are restricted due to DV or Mental Health issues.

Recent events have shown that the shooters slipped through current regulations due to crappy reporting and national database maintenance.

I also think that a common sense regulation would be national concealed carry permits on a Shall Issue basis. Use the same rational as with Driver's licenses. If you know the traffic laws, or in this case the unified national regulations, you get a permit (after background check of course). Laws would be the same from Coast to Coast so one doesn't need to have a smartphone app with GPS in order to know whether they are carrying legally or not.

Common sense in my mind would be to stop penalizing those who are law abiding citizens and start locking up those who clearly demonstrate their scorn for the laws. Don't you just love reading about some loser being arrested for a serious crime and learn that he's a "frequent flyer" with the criminal courts. I recall one recently who was under 30 years old and already had 14 or 15 felonies in his "jacket". Clearly he wasn't locked up long enough after his 2nd or 3rd. If he was he couldn't have racked up the other 12-13 felonies until he was in his 50's or more.

Common Sense tells me that taking the people who illegally use firearms out of the public makes more sense than trying to take firearms away from people who don't illegally use them.

Fix the NICS system and make it publicly accessible.

Fix the NICS system and make it publicly accessible.

Or scrap it altogether. I resent the fact that I have to receive permission from my government to exercise a natural right that the constitution expressly forbids government infringement upon. To the men who wrote the constitution, THAT would be common sense.

I would completely agree if we locked up criminals that can’t be trusted with guns. But since we have a government that turns loose scumbags that can’t be trusted background checks are a necessity. And since they are they should be available to the public so we don’t have to pay to exercise our rights.

From a post of mine in another thread..............

This showed up in my FB Feed:

Prior to 1968, anyone could walk into a hardware store with cash and walk out with a gun, no questions asked. Yet massacres were exceedingly rare. So, instead of the “the easy availability of guns” being shrieked about, we need to ask ourselves: What has changed since then?

The question I always ask of my liberal friends is this, are we more liberal or more conservative than we were in 1968, in both society and fiscally? No one can argue that government isn’t bigger, or there aren’t more social programs or more regulations. Therefore the majority of the issues and problems that beset our country are because of liberalism.

I believe in background checks...

Common sense in my mind would be to stop penalizing those who are law abiding citizens .

Or scrap it altogether. I resent the fact that I have to receive permission from my government to exercise a natural right that the constitution expressly forbids government infringement upon. To the men who wrote the constitution, THAT would be common sense.

Additionally, put the burden on the bad people. Identification for prohibited persons should be marked clearly that they can't possess a firearm.

So you're against punishing law abiding citizens but all for background checks? IMO every single background check I've had to undergo has been punishment, especially those I've had to pay for!

The most recent estimates by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) were released in 2014 and cover the period March 1, 1994 to Dec. 31, 2012. The BJS estimated 2.4 million checks were denied out of 148 million performed during that time, or 1.6%.