Reply #23: Well, I never said I was against realistic controls (good background checks.)

[karlrschneider]

But the gun grabbers don't want to hear about reasonable, they just want to prevent everybody from having them. Sort of. They get a little confused when you ask about police, sheriffs, security guards, etc. There have even been some DUers who say NOBODY except the "government" should be allowed to have a gun. Boy, there's a wonderful scenario...only Bushco can be armed? I don't trust them to repair hurricane damage, let alone protect my Constitutional rights. I'm about as real as anybody you're likely to run into around here...I think you know that. Let me repeat my suggestions again: I DO support comprehensive background checks for gun buyers...even though they can't possibly plug every 'hole' such as private sales. The guns are here. They can't be uninvented. They can't be 'rounded up' and the cliche' that the anti-gun people repeat as if it's idiotic isn't idiotic, it's absolutely true: Outlaw them and only the outlaws will have them. You surely realize that's true with drugs, don't you?
Why would this be any different?