TO STRIKEYOUROLDLADIEFIRE83: A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE 2nd AMENDMENT!(WHAT AN IDOIT)POEPLE LIKE YOU SER ARE THE REASON WILL ALL LOSE THE 2nd AMENDMENT
-Speaka de Englisch mutch, amigo? I'm the idiot yet you're the one finding that keyboard a little too hard to master? Nice.
I need to state this again, for everybody who came in late...I don't believe that the background checks will in any way reduce crime. I've never thought that.
Watch this, because you don't see it very often. A man changes his mind...
Reading back over this thread, I see that I was, in effect, arguing IN FAVOR of background checks, which was never my intention. I originally meant to say that I didn't find them particularly offensive or prohibitive. I guess I was wrong, as those of you who didn't attack me provided situations I hadn't thought of. Thank you.
I think that this thread proves one thing, how quickly many of you will turn on/witch hunt/attack someone with a slightly different opinion than you.
To everybody who thinks that a lone man sitting in front of a computer is somehow championing our rights, then you're deluding yourself. Discourse is a part of the puzzle, but organizations like the NRA are, as others have said in another thread, advancing our gun rights. We NEED moderate gun owners, those who only have an over-under shotgun, or those who use single shots only, to JOIN the fight and realize that these people are after EVERYONE'S firearms.
Attacking people and branding them traitors to the cause HURTS the 2nd Amendment fight. I'm not saying sacrifice your personal morals to the status quo, but we don't pass laws and elect senators by ourselves.
That's all. I'm a big enough man to admit when I'm wrong. In for a penny, in for a pound.