Sensible gun laws lose to politics.
A proposed amendment sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) would have closed some of the loopholes in the background checks for gun purchases. Specifically, it addressed sales at gun shows and sales over the internet which are now exempt from background checks.
In the words of Senator Toomey:
“I don’t consider criminal background checks to be gun control, I consider them to be common sense.”
The National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed this legislation. In my opinion, if we have background checks to prevent criminals from buying guns, it makes no sense to have these exemptions which enable criminals to easily avoid these checks.
Almost all Republicans voted against this commonsense measure but Republican Senators John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.) voted in favor. These courageous Senators defied both their party and the NRA. Their courage should be applauded.
Last week I was amazed that 13 Senators would oppose this commonsense measure. Now we know the numbers is larger than that.
I don’t think they did so to make life easier for the bad guys, but that is what they did.
Background checks can nonetheless pull up damaging
info, inflicting you to miss out on a great job opportunity.
I’m not sure how this would happen. Does info from background check get put into a record potential employers can access? But if it does should not the employer know about this info? Just a thought until you can give me more detail on how this might happen.