Gun Control Reform Activism

Squinch you're besting all of us, but keep it up.

creek dog: Let's list some false arguments that NRA and proponents use against gun and ammo regulation

Wayno's current flip flop hypocrisy, paraphrased: universal background checks aren't going to stop criminals, criminals don't care about background checks, so background checks bad, only penalize laaaw abiiiiding gumomers.

As if background checks were ever supposed to be 100% effective & leakproof. Even if they increased efficacy by 10% it would be worth it, and likely would do much better than that.

There was another (of many) a decade or so back after mcveigh bombing where govt wanted to add microscopic maybe plastic 'taggants' to explosives so as to help identify lot# & point of manufacture if exploded in a building or town etc... who could argue with that eh? ... nra that's who.
Turned out adding taggants increased the chance of a misfire when the explosive (same as in gunpowder somehow) was in a bullet, increased about 2 chances in 100,000 or something like that, instead of a 99.950 chance of a good fire it slipped down to only a 99.940 chance, putting the poor gunowner more at risk of not having his gun fire!
... & that became an infringement yada yada. (actually the nra got it's way, since there came a better way to id explosives without using taggants, or the idea dropped, forget which).