https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-can-t-fund-the-police-so-they-push-for-failed-gun-control/ar-BB1ez75d
Democrats can't fund the police, so they push for failed gun control
n 2020, the U.S. experienced a devastating surge in crimes, including gun crimes. But Democrats have gone so far to the extreme left that they can no longer propose what was once in their standard policy arsenal for dealing with crime: an increase in police funding, putting more officers on the street, etc. Bill Clinton did this and boasted about it for years. Barack Obama at least campaigned on such an increase in funding, paired with reforms.
But today’s Democrats find themselves in a straitjacket. They are left with only the very least effective of all the measures their party historically promotes in times of rising crime: old-fashioned gun control policies that accomplished nothing in the past, which arbitrarily hassle law-abiding gun owners and reduce decent people’s access to firearms, all without doing anything to prevent gun crimes, criminal acquisition of firearms, or mass shootings.
Then there's this:
There is a bipartisan way of increasing background checks that will not put gun owners to new hassle or expense, trample freedoms, or give anti-gun politicians and bureaucrats a way of tracking gun ownership. We have repeatedly advocated for it in this space for almost a decade now. But Democrats don’t want to pass that measure because they still hold forth hope that someday, their efforts will produce a government database containing information on everyone who owns a gun, which will, in turn, help them keep the promise that former Rep. Beto O’Rourke was kind enough to voice out loud: “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.”
The "bipartisan way" they suggest: Give gun owners the info they need to prevent massacres
After the Sandy Hook massacre, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposed an instant check system that anyone could use free online, rather like booking an airline ticket.
Would-be buyers could go online, enter their personal information as if they were checking their credit score and run a background check on themselves. If they passed, the system would give them a tracking number, good for 30 days, that they could present to a seller. The seller could then enter the tracking number online and verify that the buyer was legit. (The seller would not get access to the buyer's personal information, just to whether he passed the check.)
Gun-control advocates objected to Coburn's proposal because this entire system was voluntary. But from their perspective, this is still far better than the status quo, as it would overnight result in far more private legal gun transactions being checked.