Gun Control & RKBA

1. Background checks are limited to what information is/ is allowed to be put in the system. I have been stating for quite a while that NICS need updating, and quickly. Perhaps the HIPAA act should be slightly modified, also, allowing those that have been threatening/truly unbalanced to be placed in the system as well. I know, this is a touchy subject for some, but mental instability should be treated as a possible "switch" for violence, especially if the individual is showing signs.

2. Legally buying a gun, and then, sometime down the road, using it for a heretofore unplanned crime, is an impossibility to predict. Waiting times are not effective. Background checks are not effective. The only effective way to handle this, is to make ALL guns illegal. Not gonna happen. Thankfully, I'm sure that this is a small piece of the pie, taking away suicides, which kinda fall under par.1.

3. Enhanced sentences. Yeah. How often are they actually used, or are they used more often to get a "plea" to a reduced charge? My belief is, that committers of violent crimes should be locked up, and for longer, if a gun is used, but it seems a lot of cities/states aren't doing that. Someone commits a class 2 murder, gets 8 years, out in 5. Fair? No. But that's how our system is running things at times. Tired of hearing of a killings, and the news is "Person XXX, accused of multiple murders, has an extensive rap sheet. Locked up for 1 year on a recent violent assault charge, out on parole 6 months later." If a lot of these criminals were in jail for the time they SHOULD have received for their crime, a lot of these killings would go away.

4. "what the hell constitutes a law abiding citizen that legally buys a gun and why so many of them kill people" Well, the person in the OP was not that law abiding, really, as he was making threats against individuals/place of business. Take away suicides, take away those that technically should have not been able to purchase firearms, and I think the actual number of "lawful citizen" crimes will be a rather small percentage.

Hope this helps you out trying to understand my position.