The Democrats have once again stepped forward with an effort to circumvent the opposition to additional firearms background checks, or "Universal Background" checks by introducing in the US House and Senate bicameral bills (H.R. 5383, and S.2627) that would require Federal background checks to purchase ammunition. This pre-purchase ammunition background check idea is just one more effort that does little or nothing to reduce the violence in this country. Once again this shows the cowardice of the Democrats to really look at the root causes of violence in America. instead of doing something to reduce the level of violence, the Democrats are again showing they are focused on restricting the ability of good law-abiding citizens to use a tool for personal defense while doing nothing at all to reduce the root causes of most of America's violence. Since we already have background checks on firearms; which the Democrats keep saying we need more of because apparently, the current background checks through the NCIC for criminal and mental health violations aren't effective enough, now they want to use the same system prior to purchasing ammunition? Will the system work better by overloading it with background checks for ammunition? Drop the cowardice and say what you are really after. Try using some of your "common sense" initiatives to; improve the socio-economic-educational conditions in our predominantly Democratically controlled inner-cities, cracks in the mental health system that so many violent offenders seem to slip through, then maybe America will see a reduction in violence. Also, how would this even be enforceable? There is virtually no way to determine without possibly chemical analysis what bullet came from what box of ammunition. Or, if the purchaser is even the end user of the ammunition. These bills are simply an effort to restrict Americans from exercising their Second Amendment right by increasing the difficulty needlessly to purchase Ammunition. But again, the Democrats are using the same tired tactics that they have used for decades of ignoring the base roots of violence in America, then using guns and gun owners as the scapegoats.
I can't think of any firearm owned by anyone I have ever known that ever became violent in all the years of my life. Stop blaming the tools for how a small number of violent people use them. If background checks are so effective at reducing violence and death, then why are there no background checks for baseball bats, knives, and hammers? Each kills more people in America every year than semi-automatic rifles, but because people naturally understand that overall, such a small minority of those things are used in violent, murderous acts that a restriction on the purchase of such items would be ludicrous. That is how the vast majority of gun owners feel about our firearms.
All this sort of bill will do is to cause legal gun owners instead of buying one or two boxes of ammunition to buy ten or so at a time. It may very well have the unintended effect of creating an increase in the number of people reloading their own ammunition. Which already has a long history of documentation on purchases. Again, all that documentation hasn't decreased America's violence. Because the tools, the objects, aren't the cause of America's violence. Why make it more difficult to purchase the tools needed to defend your life, while doing nothing to ease the problem of American violence's real core causes?
Let the flaming begin.
