Background Check Fallacy

The idea that a “full background check” will “stop gun violence” is a “pipe dream.” In the first place, all that background check does is (maybe) help the cops find, and prosecute a shooter IF—he bought his gun legally and stood for such a background check. It does NOTHING to PREVENT such shootings. Secondly, it has done NOTHING to stop, or even slow down “gun violence. The FBI itself says, “The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is all about saving lives and protecting people from harm—by not letting guns fall into the wrong hands. It also ensures the timely transfer of firearms to eligible gun buyers.” The FBI says they have denied 1.3 million firearms transfers since NICS began, and gun violence continues, apace, since people who want to commit a crime with a gun will get their guns ILLEGALLY, and never get NEAR a licensed gun dealer. Now they want “expanded background checks,” which will be equally ineffective, for the same reasons. There is one fatal flaw in ALL their anti-gun laws, not just this one. That is, that the “bad guys” don’t, as a rule, get their guns legally. They just ignore gun laws and go on victimizing the law-abiding, who DO obey the law and are thus defenseless. (American Thinker)