John McCain: I Don't Understand Why GOP Would Filibuster Senate Gun Control Bill (video)
Oh really Senator? Let me explain it to you...
Well for starters it sets up civilian gun registration, which history shows not only is useless at crime fighting, but is used to disarm the citizens before a disaster. It bans certain guns, in such a way that goes directly against the Supreme Court rulings in Heller and Miller.
Combine such a list with current data mining in the government and you have a new 4th Amendment problem as well. What ever happened to the right to privacy?
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Senator McCain asks "why can't we have an open debate (and simple majority vote implied) about this?" The answer is obvious even to him:
1 - Human rights are not subject to majority vote. It says "shall not be infringed" for a reason.
2 - Politicians are not honest brokers when debating most any issue. What they are calling "universal back ground checks" is really civilian gun registration. All while they try to sell to the masses that most people go to a gun show to buy guns without a back ground check, when that simply is not the case.
While talking about "back ground checks" for mental health, the left has and continues to oppose inserting more of these records into the current national instant check system. The left also opposes mandatory evaluations for those who are dangerously mentally ill; actually arguing that people "have a right to be mentally ill".
The left refuses to enforce the gun laws we have now against genuine criminals. Chicago has the lowest gun crime enforcement rate and the highest gun crime. That is not an accident. However, when the left has a chance to go after an honest citizen who makes a technical violation of a gun law without criminal intent he is prosecuted with zeal, unless of course he is politically well connected.
Speaking of not debating as an honest broker, in the budget battle the Democrats have redefined the term "balanced" in the budget to mean "more tax increases fewer spending cuts and more spending elsewhere" rather than a budget that does not spend more than it takes in. When politicians stoop to this level of dishonesty any debate becomes a platform and tool for the lying politician.
And to think somehow John McCain was able to become the Republican Presidential Nominee.