Mr gryphon: I didn't get that from the video.
The very first thing out of his uninformed pie-hole was "folks, we got a problem" because anyone can buy his Ruger from him without going through an FFL and a NICS check.
So I listed some (perhaps most) of the high-profile shootings that involved handguns (the Navy Yard shooter was the exception but I included him because he went through checks anyway). They all went through the NICS system, just what he wants to happen.
NY Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) wants universal background checks to stop these killings, although I've already shown you that all these people went through UBCs and it didn't do a single thing. Hillary Clinton wants UBCs, too.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) said
"We proposed sensible measures such as a ban on illegal trafficking and straw purchases.” Wait, what? Banning things that are already banned? Not only is he an idiot, but so are the people that keep voting him into office. (He was AG for 20 years).
These liberals/progressives/Democrats are idiots. This is just the latest example. That's what this youtuber (and being a cop, Navy vet, and Republican mean nothing) wants to do, "something." Never mind it won't fix the problem he sees, we have to do "something."
Okay, so you tell me what law would have stopped the list of shootings I posted above?
to throw our hands up and do nothing is the wrong course of action.
To run around waving our hands in the air crying "we must do something" is both foolish and counterproductive.
He's not an idiot.
I disagree.
He's an intelligent, concerned firearms owner.
He may be a concerned firearms owner, but he's far from intelligent.
There are 317 million people in the US. There are over 367 million guns in the US. There are few people each year who murder others like this with guns. On the other hand, there are 800,000 law enforcement people in the US if you count the feds. Only 1/400 the population. They go through strict scrutiny and psychological testing. They are trained, some better than others. They are given wide latitude and legal benefits not afforded to the average citizen. Yet each year, each month, week, and day more and more cops are being fired or even sent to prison for crimes ranging from murder and rape of underage children to selling drugs, assault and battery, and citizen abuse. The percentage of cops--who remember go through all this testing and training to weed out the bad ones--who are bad are HIGHER than the percentage of average citizens who commit these crimes you are trying to stop.
If we can't even stop our law enforcement from committing criminal acts, what makes you think we can stop the average citizen from committing criminal acts? It's the price of living in a free society.
There is only one solution: the total banning, confiscation, and elimination of guns in the US. And even that won't work, but everyone from the CSGV to MDA is quick to point out that no one wants to do that anyway.
So stop running around waving your arms in the air saying "we have to do something." You tell me what law we could have passed that would have stopped the attacks I listed above. Until you do, you are simply looking for your car keys not where you dropped them, but by the lamp post because the light is better there.