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Checking the Logic of Background Checks: Would a Broader Screening Requirement for Gun Buyers Reduce Violent Crime?
By Jacob Sullum
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Urging Congress to expand background checks for gun buyers, President Obama claims the current system has "kept more than 2 million dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun" during the last two decades. If you understand why that claim is misleading, you will understand why background checks are not an effective way to stop criminals from obtaining weapons.  
 
It's true that more than 2 million gun sales have been blocked since 1994 as a result of the background checks mandated by the Brady Act. But judging from the way law enforcement officials treat them, these people typically are not dangerous.  
 
Anyone who buys a firearm from a federally licensed dealer has to fill out a form attesting that the transaction is permitted by federal law, which bars gun ownership by felons, fugitives, illegal drug users, illegal immigrants and people who have been involuntarily committed to mental hospitals, among other prohibited categories. Although lying on this form is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, sales blocked by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) rarely result in a federal investigation, let alone prosecution.  
 
According to a 2004 report by the Justice Department's inspector general, the most common reason the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) chooses not to pursue these cases is that the buyer does not seem to pose a threat. "The special agents we spoke with generally commented that they do not consider the vast majority of NICS referral subjects a danger to the public," the report said, "because the prohibiting factors are often minor or based on incidents that occurred many years in the past."  
 
The ATF's handling of NICS referrals reflects two facts commonly ignored by background-check enthusiasts. First, the criteria for stripping people of their Second Amendment rights are absurdly (and unfairly) broad, sweeping pot growers, hubcap thieves, and guys who got into a bar fight 20 years ago together with violent predators. Second, criminals generally do not buy their weapons in gun stores.  
 
Even in surveys conducted before the Brady Act, only a fifth of state prisoners who had used guns to commit crimes said they bought them from licensed dealers. In a 2004 survey, the share was just one-tenth.  
 
Furthermore, a criminal turned away by a licensed dealer can always steal a gun, buy one from someone who does not run background checks, or ask someone with a clean record to buy one for him. Obama is therefore doubly wrong to equate blocking sales through NICS with preventing "dangerous people" from "getting their hands on a gun."  
 
Given these realities, it is not surprising that a 2000 study by criminologists Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig found no evidence that the Brady Act had an impact on homicide rates. But according to supporters of expanded background checks, the problem is that the Brady Act did not go far enough.  
 
One difficulty with that argument: As Cook and Ludwig note, most people who use guns to commit crimes — including almost all mass shooters — could pass a background check. But what about the rest? Would they be thwarted by a broader screening requirement?  
 
Probably not. Forcing private sellers at gun shows to arrange background checks with the help of licensed dealers is relatively straightforward. But in that 2004 inmate survey, less than 2 percent of respondents said they had bought weapons at gun shows or flea markets. 


Three sources accounted for almost nine out of 10 crime guns: friends or family (40 percent), the street (38 percent) and theft (10 percent). It is hard to see how any national background check requirement, even one applying to all private transfers, can reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on these sources. As usual with gun control, the attempt to enforce such a requirement would impose costs and uncertain legal risks on law-abiding gun owners while leaving criminals free to go about their business.  
 
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @jacobsullum. 

ObamaGov: Story of a Tyrant and a Collaborative Congress

March 2, 2013, 2:02 pm

  by Sher Zieve

It’s becoming harder and harder for a great number of people to make sense of what the government is doing.  So, instead of actually looking to and accepting the obvious and logical reasons (aka Occam’s Razor) for what it occurring, media personnel (it has become increasingly difficult to call them journalists or reporters) continue to scratch their heads and ask ‘what is Obama doing’?  The answer is obvious to all, but the relatively brain dead.  In other words, Americans–even if they are slightly dim-witted collaborative “reporters”–know precisely what he’s doing.

Despite his ill-gotten success, but raised by Communist he and she wolves, Obama is destroying the country he has been taught to hate since he was a child; the same country that gave his grandparents an excellent income and lifestyle in Hawaii and Obama a life of privilege and enrollment at Honolulu‘s finest school.  There is no other logical or rational explanation.  He is destroying the country with vigor and prurient joy.  Therefore, that was and is his intention.  His early heroes were Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler.  He later graduated to admiring the oft-mentioned self-proclaimed Luciferian Saul Alinsky.
Note:  Obama is currently following Hitler’s plan toward gun confiscation to the proverbial “t.”   Hitler began with nationwide gun registration in Germany, then began banning certain firearms, then had his controlled media ask “why do the people need guns, anyway,” asked for “voluntary” relinquishing of guns and ended with door-to-door storm-trooper gun confiscation.  Yes, folks.  Hitler’s private army broke down doors to grab guns and whatever else they could find in private homes.
Most of us know what happened in Germany.  After the guns were forcibly taken from German citizens, the exterminations of Jews and other of Hitler’s “undesirables” (those he called mental defects, gypsies, political opponents etc) began.  There were approximately six million Jews murdered and two to three million others.  If we still refuse to look at, understand and realize that the groundwork Obama is rolling out now is the same as Hitler laid in the 1930s–we truly are a doomed country.
And, if liberals believe the ObamaGov won’t attack them because they voted for Dictator-in-Chief Obama, they had best think again.  Just recently, amongst others, the Obama White House (which is completely under the thumbs of the Obama/Jarrett team) attacked two very prominent and in-the-news figures (Bob Woodward and Lanny Davis) and CBS reporter Sharyl Atkinson (for exposing the Fast & Furious gun Obama/Holder gun-running scheme to arm the Sinaloa drug cartel) for not towing the Obama barge.  And the liberal elite actually think Obama won’t come down on them like a hammer if they deviate even an iota from his exponentially expanding dark vision for the USA and its people?  If so, this once again proves that liberals (even the “elites”) are likely insane…and, tragically, it’s probably a genetic trait.
One of the latest of Obama’s overt salutes to Nazi Germany, Leninist/Stalinist Russia and all other totalitarian governments that have existed over the last 100 years or so are his illegal in-state “immigration checkpoints.”  Most of these checkpoints are not even close to the US-Mexico (or even Canadian) border.  Drivers are being stopped to essentially ‘show their papers’.  When faced with drivers who dare to ask these USBP agents why they are being stopped and/or what legal grounds they are using to do so, they will not (or cannot) answer the question.  Instead, they become even more demanding with their questions and, on one occasion in the below video, even threaten the driver.

For those journalists who have finally waked up to the truth, I offer my commendations.  However, many seem to think we are–still–only approaching a dictatorship.  No.  We are there, folks.   This is largely due to Congress’ incessant desire to no longer actually work for what we pay them and the perks they receive under the table.  Despite its GOP “leadership“ claims to the contrary, Republican members of Congress would prefer to let Obama do all of the decision making.
Thus far, without fail, they have caved to the Marxist-Nazi contingent on every “crisis” at the end.  As an example, in 2011 and 2012, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell even actually tried to give Obama dictatorial powers and recently offered him “flexibility” on the fake “sequestration crisis.”  Obama, however, seems determined to wait until Congress begs him to become Emperor of the USA.  Chillingly, it may do just that.
We are living under tyranny now, via one manufactured crisis after another.  In fact, since Obama took the helm of our country, our ship has hit one iceberg after another in his attempt to bring the country to its end.  With a collaborative Congress, Obama is very close to doing so…and to bringing most of us to our own ends, also.
If We-the-People still refuse to take the initiative to end our enslavement–and coming genocide if still-ObamaCzar Mark Lloyd has his way–we will very soon no longer have any time left.
“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.”
–Daniel 11:36
Bob Woodward: A ‘Very Senior’ White House Person Warned Me I’d ‘Regret’ What I’m Doing:
in businessinsider.com
Lanny Davis: White House Threatened Me Too (video):
in realclearpolitics.com
Why Obama’s Flacks Bullied a CBS Reporter:
in whitehousedossier.com
Nazi-style checkpoints cropping up all over the USA:
in beforeitsnews.com

McConnell’s attempts to give Obama the US dictatorship:
in westernjournalism.com
in nbcnews.com
in washingtonexaminer.com Mark Lloyd on using media to commit genocide on your opponents:
in youtube.com