90% of Households...

I am sick and tired of this push for "Universal Background Checks", every time I hear anything about it there is always mention that 90% or more of American households are in support of having universal background checks. Now hold on just a second, just a few days ago I asked on my Facebook page how many of the people following the page had been involved in these "polls" that come up with the 90% statistic, and I wasn't surprised to find out that 135 of the responses were no.

So where does this 90% of households support universal background checks come from? Well in my opinion it's a made up statistic that is being touted as "fact", because when you use the word "fact" the unenlightened tend to believe whatever follows that.

This morning I got up and checked thegunwire.com and saw that Mr. Gabby Giffords had released a video that he had made when he went in to purchase the .45 handgun, and subsequently saw the AR-15 that he was also going to purchase (which the store owner has now reversed). In this video he is trying to prove that background checks are too "easy" and that they should take longer than 5 minutes. However he is an ex-astronaut who has never been convicted of a felony, who doesn't use marijuana, and is a legal resident of the US. How long does he think a background should take? 10 days like California? He says in the video that the shelves are a little barren at the gun shop and the guys working there told him it was because of the rush on firearms, which of course he says "I don't understand why" either he is dense to what is actually happening, or he is a terrible liar, I am going with terrible liar.

Now how does making a law abiding citizen go through more stringent background checks, more red tape, and wait longer to purchase a firearm stop criminals and the mentally ill from acquiring a firearm? I mean a criminal is willing to break the law no matter what, so what is going to stop them from going out and acquiring a firearm illegally? If they are going to use it for a crime I am pretty sure they don't care about doing a background check.

These common sense gun laws like banning high capacity magazines, the assault rifle (weapons of war) ban, universal background checks, etc. are not common sense at all. Rather they are aimed to slowly dissolve the second amendment rights that we are guaranteed, effectively making it harder and harder to protect you and your family.  If the rush on guns and ammo says anything it is screaming that American's do not want gun control, yes there are some Elites out there who would have you believe that the majority of America is for gun control, and banning assault weapons and high capacity "clips", but American's are not for this.

We are still in for the fight of our lives against the legislation that is being proposed, this will not be a quick and easy fight on either side. We cannot let our guard down for one second, we must continue to pay attention, and keep letting our legislators know that we will not give another inch. If they are willing to ignore us and continue on with the push for more citizen, I mean gun control, make it clear that you you will do everything you can to vote them out the next time they are up for election.