“My problem with background checks is you’re never gonna get criminals to go through universal background checks.”
–Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Smoking Gun of Stupidity for the NRA
Listen closely and you will hear the audible outbursts of laughter when Senator Durbin calls out LaPierre on his failed attempt at using logic.
There are two basic ways to get people to agree with you: force and persuasion. I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised when folks who love guns are not so skilled in the art of persuasion.
P.S. LaPierre also says instituting background checks would create “unfunded bureaucracy” where people who want guns will have to “pay the fees.” I might like that nugget even more.
The Goose said:
A funny spoof on Wayne LaPierre, and gun rights – published on The Goose – http://wp.me/p27mGo-og
J. Palmer said:
Apparently, LaPierre also made a bit of a scene at the capitol before his comedy show in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
http://mykeystrokes.com/2013/01/31/straight-from-central-casting-wayne-lapierre-tries-to-manhandle-facts-and-logic/#comment-2514
So much for the art of persuasion…
Tracy Goodwin said:
The real difficulty with background checks is identifying people of high risk while not misidentifying others. Consider that we have had shootings by military personnel like Nassan. If anybody was screened before getting a gun it would be military yet we can’t even catch everybody in that population. Yeah we can screen out know violent offenders but we can’t decide who will be an offender. Also should we decide who might become an offender and preemptively disallow gun ownership? That would be a lot like deeming somebody guilty of being violent before they are violent. In the US we presume innocence until proven otherwise.