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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why has the biden administration stalled out on controlling the gun violence in our country? I feel like he had a chance to do something when the democrats took control of both houses and he blew it.

Violent gun violence is skyrocketing in our country and every night there is a shooting in DC. [/quote]

The "gun violence" that is surging is in overwhelmingly deep blue jurisdictions.  Of course actually addressing that is hard, [b]good thing it is easier to advocate for taking away the rights of law abiding citizens. [/b]

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No one is advocating for your rights to be taken away. Turn off OANN, my guy.

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Also, the only way to address gun violence is to address it on a national scale….and because there are so many damn guns out there, it’ll take decades to see any results. But, yeah, let’s keep claiming nothing is being done when you are too damn scared to do support this country doing anything for fear of losing your symbol of masculinity.

And let’s be clear, you don’t give a shit about Chicago beyond using it as a talking point.

[Black woman gun owner][/quote]

Liberals lost the compassion for Chicagoans contest. I’m liberal and it’s a travesty and embarrassment. [/quote]

Chicago is a perfect example of why gun laws have to be tightened on a national level.  Chicago already has tight gun laws.  But all a criminal has to do is go a half hour east into Indiana where a private seller can legally sell them guns at a gun show with no background checks and no questions asked.[/quote]

This is not correct. Except for some exceptions related to active members of the armed forces, it is not possible to legally take possession of a handgun in Indiana if you you are not a resident of Indiana. This is true for all states actually. There is some responsibility on the part of the private seller to verify that the buyer is a resident of Indiana. And if the buyer is a resident of Indiana, and if the seller believes that the buyer intends to illegally transfer the gun (as in a straw purchase), then the seller may refuse to sell or face criminal charges.[/quote]

You've completely missed the point.  You are counting on the gun buyer, who is a criminal, to be honest, and to voluntarily, and without prompting, disclose that they are from out of state, which would then establish to the seller that it's an illegal sale.  A criminal who wants a gun won't do that.

And currently there is nothing requiring a private Indiana gun seller to verify that the buyer is a legal Indiana buyer.  So, it's don't ask/don't tell.

That is exactly how thousands of unscrupulous gun sellers flourish, feeding an epidemic of gun crime.

If we instead made it absolutely mandatory for every gun transfer to undergo a background check and kept a persistent database of all serial numbers and gun transfers and analytical capability for tracing guns from scene of crime to sources in the sales chain, as well as ability for looking for anomalous and suspicious behavior in buyers and sellers.  Without pieces like that, there is no hope of stemming the illegal trade in guns.[/quote]

You hit it on the head…it took you a while…but you got to it. The activity described is illegal. You have introduced a proposal aimed at addressing the problem. Thanks. We can debate it. My proposal for Chicago would be a lot more stop and frisk.[/quote]

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