As universal background check bill passes the House, the media spin begins

H.R. 8 does nothing to stop violent crime, and will lead to a national gun registry.

Just minutes after the House passed H.R. 8 Thursday, the media began spinning their support, proving yet again they are loyal, anti-gun lapdogs who are incapable of critical thinking or independent thought.

From Vox:

While gun sales between licensed sellers and buyers are contingent on the buyer’s passage of a federal background check for red flags like a criminal record or a history of mental illness, unlicensed sellers, including online sales, gun shows, and sales between family members and friends, are currently under no obligation to request a background check.

Again with this online red herring.

Has anyone found that website that will deliver a rifle to my door without a background check? I’ve been looking for it for years and haven’t had any luck. What I have found are several online retailers that will sell me a firearm and then ship it to my local dealer, where I have to undergo a background check.

Vox also uses some spurious sources to buttress their story’s overall theme, that background checks are necessary.

They cite Gabby Gifford’s circus, now known as Giffords:

Research from Giffords shows that 22 percent of all guns — including 45 percent of those acquired online — were sold without a background check. But if the goal is a reduction in gun violence, universal background checks are likely just one part of what a safe environment would look like.

Forty-five percent of all online gun sales were made sans background check?

Really?

I’d love to see how they created those numbers.

Vox also quoted Cassandra Crifasi, the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, who said universal background checks would be most effective, “if followed by policies that require a license for gun ownership, such as the ones states have for vehicles.”

Well, at least she’s being honest about their true intent — national registration.

Fortunately, we have a constitutional right to own a firearm, not to drive a car. I wonder what other constitutional rights the good folks at Johns Hopkins would allow the government to license and regulate.

Voting, perhaps?

Vox also quotes John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown, in their “fair and balanced” piece. There’s not even a hint of a pro-gun voice. Not that any were expected.

USA TODAY, without any attribution, states that the gun community’s fears are misguided, and that the bill “does not create a firearms registry or other federal mechanisms for review.”

Instead, the legislation would expand the cases where a background check is required for the sale or transfer of a firearm by requiring checks for private individuals and groups whenever selling or transferring firearms, closing the so-called "Gun Show Loophole." The new requirements would also apply to online sales.

I don’t buy it.

Anyone who believes this bill won’t lead to a national gun registry and eventual confiscation probably has an actual paid subscription to USA TODAY.

CBS News quotes some blood-dancing from Speaker Pelosi: “If you are afraid to vote for gun violence prevention because of your political survival, understand this: The political survival of none of us is more important than the survival of our children.”

I’m really getting sick of the “for the children’ excuse they’re using to infringe upon my God-given and constitutional rights.

To think that this bill would do anything to reduce violent crime, for any reason, requires more suspension of disbelief than a 1950s episode of Buck Rogers.

H.R. 8 will fail because criminals don’t buy their guns at a gun shop. They get them the old fashioned way: They steal them. Or they buy them from other criminals. Either way there’s no background check involved.

Instead, this bill creates an entry point for a national firearms registry. Otherwise the legislation would be unenforceable.

And history has shown us time and time again what governments tend to do once all the firearms are registered.

They take them, by force if necessary.

H.R 8 is about setting us up for eventual confiscation.

And I am positive that if, God forbid, it ever comes to pass, it too will be justified as being “for the children.”

As always, thanks for your time.

Lee