Universal background checks won’t fix America’s gun crisis. But there’s something else that might.
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It seems like after every mass shooting, politicians talk about expanding background checks for gun buyers. But background checks don’t actually do a great job of keeping dangerous people from getting guns. What does? A licensing system, where before you can buy a gun, you need a license from the state.
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Who are y'all to judge anyone??
Lol!!! At their comment ask all Americans 77 percent. What a crock, i know many people y'all didn't ask for a vote on that. So how can you even begin to state a number like that.!!
If they ban guns all of this will be stopped by a lot.
Banning guns is like the alcohol prohibition. The more you try to ban it, the more people are going to find a way to get around it.
But why do we need a gun in the first place…
"THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, SHAL NOT BE INFRINGED."
A license to own a gun!? Really? A privilege requires a license. No one has the right the drive. A mandatory license to own a gun infringes upon the right to bear arms. A license relegates the second amendment to a privilege.
Wait til they find out about people buying guns illegaly.
in my country after getting license also you will have restrictions like your license will not be valid to all type of guns , common public have limited options to buy , you will be restricted on number of bullet you can have and you need to pay taxes to legally own a gun as common man
"Bob" spreads misinformation and lies to push his own anti gun rhetoric
Fact check: You DO have to do a background check to buy a gun at gun shows.
Criminals won't follow the gun law
So the first guy gets denied, and then he simply gets an ID from another guy with no criminal record who looks somewhat like him, and goes back and buys the gun under the other guy's name.
These people are rediculous. This think tank of aristocrats, who are so far removed from the way life works for the rest of us, making decisions base upon statistics along with their 'perception' of how they think things should be. I'm not waiting weeks for someone to approve my sanity when I have done absolutely nothing wrong simply because your afraid. Police are defended, people are out of work and desperate due to covid, and lunatics are surfacing like sharks taking advantage of all of this…and yet you still want to hinder us law abiding citizens who are the 'ideals' of what an American is. If you can't understand me then you are not fit to lead me.
People forgot the definition of shall not infringe….
Dont start off with a lie 91% agree? No. Of the representatives, there was nearly a 50/50. Be honest, of those selectively polled…
Universal backgrounds checks do not guarantee anything accept a new fee for the government, longer wait times, yada yada.
Good people with firearms are the ONLY way to prevent a mass shooting.
Pretty sure theres a 7 day waiting period after filling out the background check… As a gun owner ive gone through this process.
what is stopping people from buying there buns out the back of a gun
Licensing will stop minorities and other poverty stricken people from getting legal guns. Which will lead to more criminal convictions for minorities and those in poverty who need a gun to protect themselves from the neighborhoods they live in. This is a “solution” that will exacerbate the issues affecting minorities and the poor.
There is no gun culture here in the UK and only police officers with a special licence may carry one and then only under certain circumstances.
Meanwhile in sweden, it takes 14 months to get a handgun license 🙂
Look at Iceland, 1 in 3 people own a gun but gun crime almost never happens there. We should make everyone go through a long and thorough process to get a gun, it's more than worth it if it means saving so many innocent lives.
As a UK citizen, I find this all very weird. There's no way for regular people to own guns and it not be dangerous. There is one straight-forward, reliable to solution to this, but America just refuses to do it. It's so obvious I don't even need to say what it is. You know what it is. It's a simple, binary choice: take the solution or accept the consequences of people having guns. America has chosen the latter.
Watching Vox is like watching a presentation from a mentally challenged six grader that forgot the project was due today
Let's make sure all the Black Market gun dealers do background checks.
So a license will solve the gun problem ? Surprise, surprise, like it hasnt done that for half a century in half of europe.
0:25, if im not mistaken those are muskets in the background, what shop yall buying from?
Again, big government= big problems
Simple solution!
I own 72 firearm's and have had a background check for each one.
Who is to say which person is a bad person and who is a so-called good person!!
Unreal….To much misinformation on this video!!
We have many of this 'wait 3 Weeks or more' systems in germany xD
Give the left something and give the right something. Gun owners need to get a gun license to buy a gun. Voters need to have ID to vote. Both sides are happy this way
You don't need a license for any human right.
Americans be like: “If guns become illegal the dangerous people that really want them will still get them. So just put in a background check so the dangerous people cant get them.”