I think the ignorance of the masses and the deceitfulness of representatives will eventually get some form of "universal background checks" and several add-ons passed. It has nothing to do with public safety, it has everything to do with making a compliant public and so severely restricting or outright banning of firearm ownership, that the 2A becomes irrelevant for their campaign speeches.
We have an openly pro-Socialist group of politicians, and the only way for a Socialist state to succeed is to have an unarmed population and a brutal police-state to enforce it; it's basic History 101.
As soon as UBC's get "implemented", there will be no drop in crime involving firearms. Well, we need to clamp down even further, so the only rational push would be to register all firearm transactions to assist the police in enforcement. Well what about all the firearms not federally registered? Well, common-sense gun legislation is necessary to have all law-abiding citizen register their firearms. Wow, they will exclaim, that's an expensive piece of law...we'll need to apply a tax to help fund this public safety measure! Unregistered firearms will criminalize their owners and uncontrolled tax rates will make ownership too onerous to maintain. Red Flag laws will be constantly re-defined by the bureaucratical winds and any form of hate speech will be applied, maybe even a tax lien, you-name the offensive nature, likely even retroactively, thereby making the gun-owner a target for firearm removal...all for public safety and to help our law enforcement community.
Oh, crime continues despite draconian measures. We have to remove firearms from the homes of gunowners because of some massive database leak that now jeopardizes the addresses of all gun owners. Oh shucks, time to push for a Safety and Storage Law that will force every registered gun owner to pay a storage fee at government-authorized gun clubs; all at the expense of the gun-owners. Now, Socialism Utopia is a single step away by declaring an emergency at any advantageous crisis and federalize all the gun clubs to control and cease all access to private citizens...all for public safety. The path to utopia! We'll make Venezuela look like a vacation!
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