Dan Wos, Author of – Good Gun Bad Guy
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- You’ve heard them say it, “we need more background checks to keep people safe.”
It always comes from the political left. Why is it that we never hear it from a true Conservative? Because background checks, like other fantasies of the liberal-minded, speak to a dark corner of the ideological thought process of Biden supporters and those who believe that more government intervention will cure the ills of society. Just like socialism, mask mandates, and vaccine travel cards, the words “background check” are like fingernails on a chalkboard to freedom-minded Americans, Why? Because real Americans don’t want to live in a world where a small group of people decide what’s best for everyone else and we already know that the firearms background check system is a flawed, politically driven process that deters the gun ownership of law-abiding American citizens while doing nothing to stop the bad guys. The Bureau of Justice statistics show over 90% of prisoners surveyed in 2016 avoided the background check system altogether when acquiring firearms. You would think, that alone, would be enough to make even the staunchest of anti-gunners scratch their head and question their support of background checks. That is if their intent was really to stop the bad guys.
In 2017, the Government Accountability Office did a study that recognized 8,606,286 million NICS background checks. Of that 8.6 million background checks there were 112,090 denials. The anti-gun crowd sees this number as a success, touting the notion that 112,090 mass shootings were stopped. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Of the 112,090 denials, there were only 12,710 investigations. This tells us that the vast majority of the denials were false positives or cases that were unworthy of further investigation for one reason or another. In other words, good people being denied their right to gun ownership. Of the 112,090 denials only 12 people, who “should not have been purchasing a firearm,” were prosecuted. So now the anti-gun crowd chimes in and says, “See, we stopped 12 mass-shooters.” Wrong again Snowflake. If the 12 people who were prevented from purchasing a firearm were cold-blooded killers, wouldn’t they have already been in jail? If not, why not? The conclusion that I’m sure you’ve already come to, is that over 112,000 people in 2017 were denied the right to keep and bear while being rendered defenseless during the process for no good reason, but the anti-gun crowd wants to hypothesize who “may” do something bad with a gun and deny them their constitutional rights. Professor John Lott has estimated that up to 99% of NICS denials are false positives based on the number of actual criminals apprehended or convictions obtained.
Carol Bowne from New Jersey was stabbed to death by the very man she feared while she was waiting for her concealed carry, even after she had reported her killer to Police and filed a restraining order against him. After the state of New Jersey made her go unarmed and defenseless for 43 days while deciding if she deserved to defend herself, her abuser took her life.
So why is it that those on the left gravitate toward more of the policies that get good folks killed, while those on the right denounce the idea? It comes down to two distinctively different ways of viewing the role we as individuals play in society. Those on the left tend to be more willing to give up freedom for perceived safety, while those on the right are willing to give up safety for freedom. Those on the right are much more willing to take responsibility for the safety of their families rather than pretend that government will protect them. They also recognize that the reason we have the freedoms we do is because our Founders told the King what he could do with his dictates.
So, to all those in favor of background checks or to those who believe that more background checks will save lives, please pay attention. Putting good people in danger by delaying their firearm purchase with a failed system is something the gun-grabbers should be ashamed of. The 2nd Amendment is not a privilege. It’s a right, recognized by our Founders and written into The Bill of Rights for the sole purpose of stopping the misguided anti-gunners and ill-intentioned Legislators we find living among us today.
The 2nd Amendment is not a privilege.
It’s your right.
Dan Wos
Good Gun Bad Guy
The Loaded Mic
About Dan Wos, Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
Dan Wos is a nationally recognized 2nd Amendment advocate and Author of the “GOOD GUN BAD GUY” series. He speaks at events, is a contributing writer for many publications, and can be found on radio stations across the country. Dan has been a guest on the Sean Hannity Show, NRATV, and several others. Speaking on behalf of gun-rights, Dan exposes the strategies of the anti-gun crowd and explains their mission to disarm law-abiding American gun-owners.
The democRATS also want to use background checks as a means to make a list of people and what they have. For future reference.
But how else will they defend themselves from the inevitable uprising? They need to know in order to limit collateral damage to only a million or so. Just because they love our country and it’s people so much!
\sarc if it isn’t obvious enough
Poof, don’t need no stinking background checks, just subpoena the records of safe dealers, boom you now know who owns firearms. Way easier.
If the 12 people who were prevented from purchasing a firearm were cold-blooded killers, wouldn’t they have already been in jail? I’ll lay high stakes at very long odds that those twelve were somehow unaware they were “prohibited persons”: thus unable to lawfully possess firearms. I’ve read a number of cases where someone had a bust long ago they had literally forgotten about, or it was for some inane thing unrelated to violence, or was to have been quashed after some period of time but was not. Anyone really wanting to get a gun to go kill someone WILL find… Read more »
but that is prohibited
By who? LOL!
\sarc ???
You left out a very important little detail, a minimum of 75% of the assailants were KNOW to either the worthless FBI or to local police prior to the commission of the shootings. Some, Hunter Biden, lied on their forms…a FELONY.
The vast majority of “false denies” and delays” are because of SIMILAR names. This is because the system as designed does NOT correlate morethan one factor at a time. Nor is it consistent with HOW someone’s name is reported. My own name gets twisted changed morphed with each new government agency that deals with it, and the banks. I have bank accounts insisting I use THIS form of it, while the next one wants THAT form of it. Driving license has one thing, Mother May I Card another, SocialSecurity yet different, IRS different again, Medicare got REAL creative… yet its… Read more »
I dislike your idea…I look at it like this. Garbage into “their” computers, garbage out. I make sure that I make mistakes all over the place when it comes to certain businesses. A number reversed, a letter that is added. I don’t give a crap. “THEY” HAVE NO BUSINESS in MY BUSINESS without my express consent.
I have a friend who lives in Tennessee who has a .50 caliber rifle. One day the Secret Service showed up at his house asking some strange questions because George Bush was visiting the town he was in…oh, yeah, they already have registration. You can bet your ass on it. That was 20 years ago.
I remember calling in a background check on someone once, and the operator commenting how this guy has been buying a lot of guns lately. They aren’t supposed to keep the check history after a certain period of time, but obviously they did. I lied and said he recently came into some money (inheritance) and was a good customer. Further, this is kind of like Hippa law, she should have never revealed that to me, very unprofessional. I learned from that, and space out my purchases over time. They want to know everything you do. Use cash,too. Your credit card… Read more »
My recollection is that Carol Bowne was not asking for a carry permit, she was only seeking permission to purchase a handgun. And wasn’t her murder 13 days after the Police were required by law to grant or deny her permit to purchase? And during those 13 days did she not contact the Police several time wanting their decision?
The Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The US Constitution does not give us any rights, and that includes the 2nd Amendment. Rather, it affirms rights that already existed, espoused in the “Bill of Rights”, in order to safeguard them. Note that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” isn’t given by the language above. Instead, our right to keep and bear arms, which existed outside of any… Read more »
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