Universal Background Checks for firearms

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49. I am skeptical because much of the rhetoric here and elsewhere is characterized...

By such expressions as "first step," "just a beginning," "good start," which suggests much more militant controls & bans in the offing. I think also that proposals Not originating with gun-controllers will be resisted.

However, I support the measure you suggest, and the approach of assurances and guarantees against attacks on the 2A rights. It may be possible to break a logjam.

I use "logjam" as a convenient metaphor, but I caution (myself as well) against viewing these controversies as "Pro-gun vs Anti-gun" because societal problems which manifest themselves as "Mass shootings" are far too limited by narrow gun-ban politics, and in fact may be addressed on many fronts. In fact "mass shootings" account for only a small % of all shootings, which leaves this bigger problem unaddressed. I think many people have a difficult time even framing what it is that bothers them outside some creaky, doctrinnaire, and narrow approach such as gun bans to solve CelebroPunk murders.