I always try to read John Micek’s liberal opinion column in the Griffin Daily News, partly to try to understand the extremely liberal mindset but also to make fun of it and see how silly it is.  His support of gun control and justifications for his bias always amaze me.

    In his November 30 column, he decries the trouble with the FBI database used for the background check for buying a gun.  He points out the problems with government agencies not adding names of prohibited people to it.  He is also upset the FBI and other agencies sometimes change their definitions of criminal acts so some don’t get added that he thinks should.

    He says the database system should be improved.  I agree. But then he goes off on a strange liberal tangent that every gun purchase should have to be run through it, the so called Universal Background Check that gun banners constantly demand.  Although he admits the background check really does not do any good, he wants to make more people go through it.

    That may sound good, but, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details.  What their scheme would include would be things like parents giving guns to their children for Christmas and a gun club member selling a gun to another club member.

    Can you imagine having to pay for a background check if you want to give your child a single shot .410 for Christmas? Or a gun club member selling a skeet gun to a fellow club member they have been shooting with for years? 

    When you look into gun ban groups demands, nothing they call for would have any effect on crime. They even admit this, or ignore the question when asked what their proposal would do to prevent crime.

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