"deep" wrote in message news:7r1cj8hp6gsrsch32...@4ax.com...
> You all act like background checks are the tool of the Devil himself.
They could easily be used to infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights as well
as our 4th Amendment rights, and even our rights to privacy.
That's not even considering that the federal government has absolutely NO
authority to impose such checks.
> You might as well face it but a universal background check requirement
> is inevitable so you might as well get used to it.
Sorry, but only by giving up is it inevitable, so there is no reason to stop
fighting it and every reason to do so.
> You would be much
> better served by participating in compromise
What compromise?
What are gun owners getting in return?
>and getting a good system
> designed that we can use to filter out the criminals but doesn't
> infringe on the civil liberties of law biding citizens.
Already proposed and which you've already rejected because it doesn't
require governmental permission, oversight, and a means for back door gun
registration.
> It CAN be
> done but taking a zero compromise stance on anything will only serve
> to make it worse.
Ok. Make it a requirement that each buyer has to see current and valid
government issued photo ID.
Then include something on all government issued ID to indicate if that
person is prohibited from firearms ownership.
There you go. A perfectly good universal background check system that
doesn't infringe on the civil liberties of law abiding citizens.
Somehow, I bet you will reject this proposal yet again.
> As I explained to Scout, UBCdb (universal background check database)
> is NOT a universally readable database wide open to the public that
> collects personal information from gun owners and makes it available
> to everybody.
Well, it is open to the public in that anyone has to be able to enter a name
and get a result.
Second, the very fact that people can enter names at random is a violation
of law abiding people's civil rights because anyone can conduct a background
check on them anytime they chose to do so.
Further access to the system will be public, which means there is a
possibility that one could bypass security and gain direct access to the
database itself.
Second, it still allows the government access to ALL this information. Which
is a problem. Since the FBI is already running a gun registration scheme in
direct violation of the law. So why do you think this system wouldn't be
misused for a similar purpose?
> That is absolutely fucking ridiculous, and is an ideal
> example of just how uniformed you people are.
No, there are valid reasons to question the need, validity and even security
for such a system. Nor have you produced any valid reason why law abiding
people should have to seek governmental permission anytime they chose to
exercise their Constitutional rights.
> Unauthorized people are
> NOT going to be able to go to a website and do searches and pull up
> personal information about people.
Sure, except that people have done just that with other systems.
> It does NOT work that way.
No, it's not INTENDED to work that way, but given a flaw in the system it's
possible to make it work that way.
> As a
> matter of fact, the system can be designed so it doesn't need to
> collect ANY information about the seller or purchaser.
Sure, and we really believe that, particularly since that now means it would
be legally impossible to tell if a background check was actually preformed.
Is this what you are suggesting?
To mandate a background check, and then provide no means to see if such a
check was actually performed?
> That is not
> the point.
Of course not because if it were you might actually have to explain how you
can require a background check and then not have any means to show if it
were actually done.
>The point is the db collects information on CRIMINAL
> activity.
Sorry, it would collect information on all those checked, and since the
seller would probably have to enter their data as well, that information
would be collected. Then you would probably have to enter in the specific
gun being transferred so that authorities could insure that the gun that X
now owns had a background check performed when they bought it, and that you
did one when you sold it.
So, right off, we have seller, buyer, and the specific gun.
Looks like the key elements for back door gun registration.
Sure, they CLAIM they would never use it for that, but then we have the FBI
doing something just like that in violation of federal law and continuing to
do so even though it's known they are doing it.
Excuse me if I don't trust those that seek to limit, restrict, prohibit or
ban my guns as being honest and trust worthy.
Hell, just look at yourself. You are neither, yet you're asking us to trust
your claims on the limits of such a system and how it would never ever be
misused.
> If you aren't a criminal, you don't even need to be in the
> database.
Fine, then you're telling me I will never need a background check done on
me, since otherwise I will be in the database.
> So the notion that a UBCdb will lead to registration and
> confiscation is also absolutely absurd.
Except that the FBI is already doing this with current systems in violation
of the law and there is absolutely no reason to assume they wouldn't extend
that program to this new system.