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Brady Act for gun control shows astounding success rate
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2006, the government issued 8,209,900 background checks. It resulted in 73 convictions from felons attempting to buy guns.
That's something like 1 thousandth of 1 percent. 1.3 percent of would-be gun buyers were either denied without reason, denied with suspicion but not prosecuted, or, in the other 98.6 percent of cases, simply inconvenienced or put in harms way by the wait times.
Victory! We've stopped gun violence.
OK. So we didn't.
Which leads one to wonder how all those criminals who get their hands on guns fooled the background checks.
Or, whether they get their guns legally.
In a country where hundreds of tons of narcotics and hundreds of thousands of illegals flow across our borders, self-defense opponents pretend that America's criminal class won't get access to weapons or that people who have no compunctions about killing other people over farthings will be bothered or mended by a series of wrist-slapping laws.
Given the cost, the hassle and the likelihood that background checks have left many people vulnerable to the predations of others, is this a program that is worthwhile, or is it simply another way for the State and its lovers to exert power over their neighbors?
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