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Trump is cutting $$$ support for background check system. oops
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:14 pm
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Schumer rips Trump's proposed cuts to gun background check system
Sen. Chuck Schumer blasted President Trump’s budget proposal for stripping millions from the background check system used to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from getting guns.
The White House budget plan would strip 16% from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, Schumer said — cutting its budget from $73 million to $61 million.
“Our background check system is our line of defense. We need to make it better, and here Donald Trump is cutting it,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. “It’s just appalling.”
The system is used to conduct checks under a federal law requiring licensed gun dealers to do background checks before making a sale, to determine whether the buyer has a serious criminal record or has been adjudicated as mentally ill and ineligible to buy a gun.
“It means that people who shouldn’t get guns because they’re felons or adjudicated mentally ill will, because they’ll fall through cracks in the system,” Schumer said.
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Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:15 pm to CelticDog
The background check system budget should be $0.
Free people shouldn’t need the Federal government’s permission to exercise a Constitutional right.
Free people shouldn’t need the Federal government’s permission to exercise a Constitutional right.
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:15 pm to CelticDog
Senator Schumer can re-insert it if he would like. You do understand our three branches of government, correct?
Oops.
Oops.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:16 pm to CelticDog
What do they need $61 million for?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:16 pm to CelticDog
Schumer? Yeah EABODs 
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:17 pm to CelticDog
quote:
Trump is cutting $$$ support for background check system. oops
You would think the Obama years would have taught people that the President doesn't control the purse strings. But then we have thread titles like these...
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:17 pm to CelticDog
What is the cost-benefit analysis?
If policy-makers think the same amount of checks can be done with 61 million as with 73 million, what is the problem?
If policy-makers think the same amount of checks can be done with 61 million as with 73 million, what is the problem?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:17 pm to The Boat
Congress has the purse strings, right?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:17 pm to CelticDog
Do you even separation of powers baw?
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:18 pm to CelticDog
When is that last time a budget actually became a budget?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:19 pm to CelticDog
Stopped reading at
quote:
Schumer rips Trump's
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:21 pm to CelticDog
Better question: Why does it cost $73,000,000 to keep a database updated?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:22 pm to CelticDog
Tell me how the background check would have stopped the Florida school shooting, the Vegas shooting, or the Texas church shooting?
The Texas church shooting would have if the military had done their job. The other two flagged nothing.
Also, people sell AR15s every single day in the local classifieds. If I wanted one bad enough, and I couldn't pass the background check, then I would go the private seller route.
Edit: The background check could have stopped the Texas church shooter from purchasing a new gun. He could have easily purchased from a private seller and still committed his terrible crime.
He could have also set the church on fire and killed everyone. Evil people do evil things. No law or requirement is going to deter them.
The Texas church shooting would have if the military had done their job. The other two flagged nothing.
Also, people sell AR15s every single day in the local classifieds. If I wanted one bad enough, and I couldn't pass the background check, then I would go the private seller route.
Edit: The background check could have stopped the Texas church shooter from purchasing a new gun. He could have easily purchased from a private seller and still committed his terrible crime.
He could have also set the church on fire and killed everyone. Evil people do evil things. No law or requirement is going to deter them.
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 3:37 pm to The Boat
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What do they need $61 million for?
No shite.
That's a lot to run a database.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 4:21 pm to weagle99
quote:
Free people shouldn’t need the Federal government’s permission to exercise a Constitutional right.
So you're against libel laws?
Posted on 2/18/18 at 5:16 pm to The Boat
quote:This question needs to be asked. The infrastructure of the "system" was just overhauled a couple of years ago. Some of it still hasn't fully deployed. WTF do they need more money for?
What do they need $61 million for?
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 5:20 pm to CelticDog
300 million guns....300 million citizens....yet we need more then $63M dollars a year on background checks???? Thats not including all the money we give the FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS to watch people and report properly. This is beyond ducking retarded. What about the money people spend on licenses...
Posted on 2/18/18 at 5:21 pm to CelticDog
....and what the frick will the FBI do with the information???? Not a fricking thing. Go kill yourself a-hole!!
Posted on 2/18/18 at 5:41 pm to CelticDog
I suspect there's plenty of dead weight that can be jettisoned from that program.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 5:44 pm to CelticDog
The dear leader didn't do squat with the background checks.
Over 100,000 convicted felons attempted to illegally purchase firearms each year during President Barack Obama’s eight years in the oval office, and the Obama administration did virtually nothing about it.
The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) only "considered prosecuting" approximately 30 to 40 convicted felons per year who attempted to illegally purchase firearms — roughly .04%.
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Over 100,000 convicted felons attempted to illegally purchase firearms each year during President Barack Obama’s eight years in the oval office, and the Obama administration did virtually nothing about it.
The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) only "considered prosecuting" approximately 30 to 40 convicted felons per year who attempted to illegally purchase firearms — roughly .04%.
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