Terrorists have rights, too!!!!

[virgil]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/06/28/2011-06-28_mayor_bloomberg_launches_television_ad_warning_al_qaeda_terrorists_can_get_firea.html

I'm curious as to the thought process behind maintaining the 'gun show loophole'.

[Mr VJP]

If you don't know by now, you either aren't paying attention, are in denial, or are incapable of understanding.  Why don't you just Google the answer?  Then you can argue with Google afterwards.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4835

http://www.triggerfinger.org/weblog/group/category/arms_control/gun_show_loophole/index.jsp

http://www.nraila.org/media/misc/fables.html#FABLE%20I:

http://www.minutemanreview.com/2011/02/gun-show-loophole-myth.html

  "The Gun Show Loophole" Exists

So far, the anti-gun movement has lost in the legislatures, at the ballot box, in the courts and in the public opinion polls. So they have created yet another nefarious-sounding "loophole" they claim is arming criminals. There is one huge flaw in their argument - studies show only 1 percent of guns used in crimes are traced back to sales at gun shows.

Once again, there are rich and powerful interests with a lot to lose if the "gun show loophole" is exposed as a fraud. Most notable is billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has used the "gun show loophole" myth as an excuse for why his gun control schemes aren't working to keep New York's criminals from getting guns. By blaming the "gun show loophole" and gun dealers outside of New York, Bloomberg can lay the blame for his bad public policy decisions at the feet of the gun industry.

Like Don Quixote, Bloomberg is on a crusade to smite a mythical foe. The problem is he is well-funded and has the backing of a complicit establishment media - which makes him one of the most dangerous anti-gun leaders in the United States.

He has so much invested in keeping the "gun show loophole" at the forefront of his anti-gun crusade that he clearly believes his own lies. Regardless, his anti-gun rallying cry is nothing more than a figment of a vivid imagination and incredibly well-thought-out political spin.

What the gun ban crowd constantly trumpets as the “gun show loophole” is simply this: private individuals selling an occasional firearm from their individual collections. In most of the country such sales are completely legal and they are no different from private individuals selling an old car or boat in order to buy one that is newer or bigger.

There is nothing about a gun show that makes these private sales somehow evil or sinister, and it is past time that the gun banners stop trying to sell the public a lie.

[Mr VJP]

[table]    [tr]  [td]Friday, July 01, 2011[/td][/tr]  [tr]  [td] [/td][/tr]  [tr]  [td]  This week, the most visible gun control advocate in this country, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, appeared on MSNBC and CNN, promoting his new TV ad urging that Congress impose so-called "terrorist watchlist" gun control legislation. The ad features an edited portion of the well-known video of a scraggly-looking al Qaeda misfit claiming -- falsely -- that jihadists can buy machine guns at gun shows in the United States, without a background check.

Everyone in Congress knows the machine gun claim is a lie, and surely most are familiar by now with the many problems of "watchlist" legislation. But when Bloomberg appeared on MSBNC's "The Last Word," hosted by self-proclaimed socialist Lawrence O'Donnell, O'Donnell didn't blame Bloomberg's dishonesty for his pet legislation's failure to move. O'Donnell instead said Congress is "in favor of illegal guns," to which Bloomberg outrageously added, "Congress must believe that there is a constitutional amendment that says the right of terrorists to buy arms shall not be infringed."

O'Donnell asked, "What does the NRA say?" and Bloomberg replied, "They won't say anything." That, of course, is another lie. NRA has said -- many times -- that 95 percent of the people who are on the watchlist are already ineligible to possess firearms in the United States, because (according to the FBI) they are not U.S. citizens or legal resident aliens of the United States. NRA has also pointed out repeatedly that the "watchlist" legislation would violate a watchlisted person's right to due process of law, by preventing him from clearing his name and getting his firearm rights restored in a fair hearing. NRA has also said that supporters of the legislation have yet to come up with a single violent crime committed by a watchlisted person with a gun acquired after a federal background check. And NRA has noted federal studies showing that less than one percent of imprisoned gun criminals obtained their guns at gun shows.

That Bloomberg resorts to lies shows something about his character. That he resorts to lies that are so easily disproven shows how desperate he has become, as he tries to convince the American people and Congress to go along with his agenda. And maybe that should tell the billionaire anti-gun gadfly that some things cannot be bought at any price.[/td][/tr][/table]

[virgil]

All this is interesting.  But, you haven't addressed my question- why fight to keep this loophole open?

[Mr VJP]

You're joking, right?  Everything posted above addresses your question in every way possible and in great detail. If you're serious, you either didn't read any of the links, or just can't understand the issue.  What specifically do you think wasn't addressed?