Background Checks For Everyone!

Instead of doing background checks on someone purchasing a gun, why not do background checks on every man, woman and child in the entire country. If there is any evidence that running a background check prevents a criminal from getting a gun and killing someone, which there isn't, then surely it should be recognized that there must be a lot of frustrated killers out there. Unfortunately no criminal is frustrated by background checks because they obtain their weapon the easy way, stealing one or buying one on the street. With the ability of circumvent the background check with ease we are all in the same danger we were in before we had background checks which those stubborn criminals refuse to comply with. To close this obvious big hole I would ask for the only logical remedy, make everyone, not just gun buyers, but every person in the country submit to a background check once yearly. That way all the people that currently submit to background checks (harmless good people) as well as those that don't and never have (dangerous bad people) will both be checked. If a background check is capable of identifying criminals and prevent them from purchasing a gun then it should be used to identify the same criminals and all the currently unknown criminals as well as those potential future criminals that might get their hands on a gun the way most do now, illegally. cjpost