
Originally Posted by
ZoraSpook
Gonna sound like that old TV guy “Andy Rooney” here.
Background checks for firearms make sense. Since they are potentially deadly or can cause bodily harm.
It’s not the gun dealer that authorizes you to buy a gun, it’s the Feds that are allowing the person to buy the gun, when they approve the background check the gun dealer submits for his client.
And yet with a background check satisfactorily completed, some folks want to hold the GUN MAKER responsible for what the gun owner does with it…….right?
So if that’s the case, shouldn’t there be other times we need a background check.
Like when you go to buy a car. Shouldn’t the dealer have to submit a background check to be sure you don’t have outstanding dangerous car use warrants out for you, before giving you a car to commit more crimes? Cars can be deadly can’t they? And if you buy the car and do drive stupid and harm someone doing it, why don’t the networks and newspapers try to hold the car maker responsible for what the car owner did with it?
It’s 4th of July, and lots of folks are buying fireworks. They are not guns, but worse, explosives. So why don’t people have to submit to a background check to be cleared to buy explosives, when they do to get a gun which is a far more precise weapon?
And why can you buy a beer, without a background check at the bar to see if you currently already have a DUI pending?
And last but not least. Before buying a trailer, for that new boat a person is purchasing, shouldn’t a background and full psychological evaluation be done before the buyer is allowed to make the purchase. From what I have seen on boat ramps, it appears it would be a reasonable and prudent precaution.