Time to eliminate gun background checks

Clearly the background checks are not being effective.  Ghastly crimes and mass shootings are almost so common that they aren't really news anymore - unless you know the victims.

Besides, there are so many loopholes that congress just can't seem to close.  Anyone who would not pass a background check can simply attend a gun show or check out craigslist.  I'm amazed anyone fails a check.

So let's think about this.  The government isn't capable of fixing this problem.  Upstanding gun dealers clearly want to do their part to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people with mental issues.  Let them do it.

Here's how - one simple, easy to understand, law:
"If you sell a gun, that is used in a crime, you face the same charges as the perpetrator."

I bet gun sellers would be very careful who they sold to.  I don't think making them an 'accessory' to the crime would have the same effect.  You sell a gun used in a murder, you are a murderer.  Clean, simple, done.

What if Mitt Romney had endorsed Obamacare?

Imagine Mitt Romney running for president in 2012 and supporting Obamacare.  He could claim that HE had the original idea.  There are many, many Republican ideas that resulted in Massachusetts' successful 'Romneycare' plan that are also in Obamacare.

It is too bad he had to repudiate it to survive the Republican primaries.  And with the rollout troubles we have seen, he could have run again in 2016 claiming to be able to fix the 'mess'. Stay tuned, 2016 isn't that far away.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun

is to keep the effing gun out of his hands in the first place!

The trick is to respect citizen's rights to keep and bear arms while keeping them away from people who would commit criminal acts with them.  All in an insanely divided political atmosphere.