Gun Nuts Kill Local Checks on Purchases, So More People Die

According to a recent study by the Medical College Of Wisconsin, the abiltity of local governments to do background checks on gun buyers, lowers the suicide and homicide rates by about 25%.

Which means, deaths rates rise if states or the feds approve buyers purchases.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article stated, “The researchers theorized that more in-depth, detailed records, especially those involving mental illness and domestic violence, are available to local authorities, resulting in more rejections of sales to potential buyers who might use a gun to kill themselves or someone else.”

Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Not so fast. NRA influenced legislation passed a few years ago that, strangely, prohibits local agencies from doing the checks. Are there any strict Constitutional constructionists out there able to point out the part of the Second Amendment that clearly protects against local background checks? I guess we can only assume the NRA is aware of information that outweighed the data that “found a 27% lower suicide rate and 22% lower homicide rate when background checks were done locally, compared with federally. The suicide rate and homicide rates were 25% and 7% lower, respectively, when the checks were done locally, compared with at a state level.”

Which means nearly 25% of those who commited suicide might be alive today.

Around 7% to 22% of murder victims might have continued with their day to day activities instead of leaving behind devistated families.

I’m sure the NRA had a good reason to not only to oppose, but advance a few other parts of the Second Amendment I can’t quite recall reading.