Feds say neo-Nazi with guns was tracking community leaders

You compared to big airports in your analogy. That would be like saying only one of the two big gun stores in town requires back ground checks. Yes, that would be a issue. But that's not what we have. Your airport analogy would be better if, instead of two major airports, you picked say JFK and a small strip in Texas. JFK expects many international flights and is serviced by major public airlines. We have immigration control at that airport. The small Texas strip is not a likely destination for any major carriers and only a private or charter type flight is going to land there. It doesn't have immigration control. A plane from Mexico could fly up there and land at the little strip. Should we force all possible airstrips to have immigration control because any of them could be used for international flights?

Huh? Are you merely unhappy with the word "want"? Ok here: Rand Paul supports laws that would allow Walmart to deny services to say blacks and put up up say "Whites Only" signs.

Ok with you now?

And your last ("logical") point about abortion simply does not follow. What if I see segregation a sin as serious as murder? Then what?

Look here is the argument: if a person is for ALLOWING X as a choice, could that person legitimately be labeled pro X?

Many rightwingers are for allowing the communist party under the law. Are they pro-communists? (There are many other examples so please do not pick on this particular one.)

We can't cherry pick the inconveniences.. when dealing with rights.

No one who willingly sells a gun without care or concern aside from the $$$ involved is going to care about or use any sort of BCG.

The fact that gun fans call people who disagree with them "idiots" leads me to believe that they are an angry, violent-prone bunch of people.

If a gun, knife, car, cell phone, baseball bat is tied to a crime, the last legal owner would be prosecuted unless he could show that he required a BGC for the sale or reported the gun stolen.

Yes, we can, as the SCOTUS has plainly ruled in many cases.

Restrictions on rights can be and have been implemented based on the practical dangers and benefits tradeoffs.

fixed that for ya

When those items are as dangerous as guns then you might have a point.

In the mean time, I'm OK with keeping all dangerous weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

even thought the 2008 ruling was a 5:4 verdict to allow a firearm for lawful purposes, the SCOTUS is still a group of partisan hacks..

They deserve the same respect congress does right now.. (which is somewhere between absolutely nothing to none).

Sigh.

I am told about half of gun purchases do not have BGCs associated with them.

JFK / LaGuardia
FFL / Private Sales

I think the analogy is perfect.

Or if you want switch LaGuardia to the smallest international airport.

Here is another: say we have 2000 miles of border with Mexico. If you advertise that in 1990 miles we have armed guard border patrols who will check your papers but there is 10 miles in which no one needs to present their papers, then you are as equally making a mockery of the border secuirty.

The White House says the figure comes from a 1997 Institute of Justice report [ncjrs.gov], written by Philip Cook [duke.edu] of Duke University and Jens Ludwig [uchicago.edu] of the University of Chicago. This study is based on data collected from a survey in 1994, just the Brady law requirements for background checks was coming into effect. (In fact, the questions concerned purchases in 1993 and 1994, while Brady law went into effect in early 1994.) In other words, this is a really old figure.

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When all of the “yes” and “probably was” answers were added together, that left 35.7 percent of respondents indicating they did not receive the gun from a licensed firearms dealer. Rounding up gets you to 40 percent, though as we noted the survey sample is so small it could also be rounded down to 30 percent.
Moreover, when gifts, inheritances and prizes are added in, then the number shrinks to 26.4 percent. (The survey showed that nearly 23.8 percent of the people surveyed obtained their gun either as a gift or inherited it, and about half of them believed a licensed firearms dealer was the source.)

Sigh.

I am told about half of gun purchases do not have BGCs associated with them.

Except that restricted rights based on cost/benefits actually was established many decades ago, and makes sense logically. IOW, it's pragmatic, not ideological.

And yet, THOSE are not used in crime.

Lock up criminals and their friends/family where the illegal gun use comes from.

He might very well if he were held liable for its use.

At least the next time he is detained, that liability could result in incarceration.