However, background checks are not currently required for private sales, including those conducted at gun shows.
Wrong. Private sales are not tracked but sales at a gun show still require a background check if the gun is sold by a licensed dealer. This fact is so well-established it takes a Katie Couric-level of dishonesty to continue to repeat it.
Certain people are banned from owning weapons, including convicted criminals, people with mental health illnesses or non-U.S. citizens. But the system has major holes in it.
Primarily due to lack of enforcement which compels us to ask: What good would yet more laws do?
The wording of the Second Amendment is the primary defense cited by gun rights advocates.
And the 13th Amendment is the primary defense cited by opponents of slavery. What was the point of this sentence except to have people scoff at the notion of constitutional rights.
Those advocating stricter laws cite statistics to bolster their case.
This is definitely straight out of the Katie Couric Handbook of Dishonesty. Self-defense advocates also cite statistics but these authors would have you believe -- like Couric's deceitful editing -- that 2A advocates have no answers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports...
Who is doing what? On VOA's on website they are peddling the myth that there is a ban on gun-related research imposed on the CDC --
http://www.voanews.com/content/democrats-seek-link-gun-violence-measure-funding-bill/3098447.html
-- and yet, here they are contradicting their own stories.
...there were more than 33,000 firearms deaths in the U.S.
Over half of which are suicides and of the remaining crime oriented deaths the vast majority are perpetrated by those with criminal records. Again, facts so well-established that the deception can only be deliberate.
They point to countries like Japan where gun control laws are strict and shooting deaths are almost nonexistent.
Another threadbare trope. No mention of nations with strict gun control and higher violent crime rates or nations with comparably lax laws and lower crime rates. They just want to cherry pick data to give the ignorant the impression they control all the data.
They argue that better records on gun ownership and more stringent laws dictating the sale, possession and storage of guns would allow law-abiding people to have firearms, while resulting in far fewer accidental deaths, suicides and homicides.
So they say but the data -- which they pretend does not exist -- shows their assumptions to be unfounded and their willingness to engage in such widespread deceptions leaves their motives in doubt.
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