Sorry, I must disagree with your 'STUPID STUPID STUPID'. No, it's not a stupid thing to say - but y'all don't seem to get the whole 'why should I be punished for the idiocy/illegality of the few' argument.

Case in point. because some decongestants could be used (in large enough amounts) to produce meth, I now have to go to the pharmacy and have my driver's license recorded because I live in the middle of the allergy capitol of the world and I like to breathe on occasion. And because there are two of us (my husband and I) who are silly enough to enjoy that whole breathing thing, we can go through a 10-count box of decongestants fairly quickly (husband takes normal dose, I take 1/2 dose). And while I can get 2 10-counts, I can't purchase 2 20-count boxes BECAUSE I MIGHT BE MAKING METH. Or so the logic goes. Nor can I purchase 2 10-count boxes more than every two weeks.

Never mind that serious meth-cookers don't bother with freakin' decongestants as a base. But I still have to have my data recorded like I was trying to buy morphine.

So, is THAT regulation keeping the amount of meth on the streets down? Not hardly.

And that's our point. There are already reams and reams of laws out there controlling ownership/sale/purchase of guns that law-abiding citizens have to deal with every time we want to purchase a gun. And people who are looking for a gun for ILLEGAL purposes aren't going to abide by these laws because they don't want a paper trail. So why create more for them to ignore and to frustrate people like me?





>One thing that really gets me going is when people say having laws for databases and backgrounds won't work because the criminals won't abide by the laws. This is STUPID STUPID STUPID thing to say. That violent felon, who just got his gun off the internet or a gun show, doesn't give a damn about the law when he uses that gun to rob you. But guess what - there IS STILL A LAW AGAINST IT.
>And I also notice that the same people who claim their liberty might be infringed sure as hell didn't have a problem with Bush's wide sweeping wack to our civil liberties. Oh yeah - slam our freedoms as a result of 3,400 terrorists related deaths since 1970 - ok the foreign drone strikes of US citizens abroad without any oversight whatsoever, and who needs a warrant for anything anyway? - but ooh have 900,000 guns deaths since 1980 and I guess that's not good enough reason to have a damn background check and gun database? Just goes to show you how badly twisted these NRA bought folks can be and the poor logic and reasoning of some people.