re: #123 William Barnett-Lewis

By some. The real problem is when they tie other things - meaningless magazine or cosmetic feature restrictions that do nothing - onto the bills. Push for _just_ background checks and that has a far greater chance at passing without losing mass number of seats that, for example, the Clinton Assault Weapon ban cost the Democrats.

That’s just it, though. Even if you had a bill that just focused on background checks with nothing else attached to it, the NRA and the gun nuts would still squeal like stuck pigs over it. They’d attach so many conditions and loopholes to that law that you might as well not bother at all.

It’s like my contention that anyone who wants a gun license should spend documented time in a class THEN show documented time at a gun range, because there’s no reason to own a gun if you don’t know the how to properly load, clean, shoot, store, and maintain the damn thing in the first place. A bill like that would have so many exceptions added to it that it would be pointless.