would you not then maybe, just maybe, think that background checks might have some value?
Perhaps I'm not being clear. I already do think that background checks have value - just not a very huge amount, in terms of preventing that sort of scenario. Most gun-crime is with illegally-obtained weapons.

As I said, the marginal cost is low, but the marginal benefit is as well.

There is no cure-all for gun-crime within gun regulation, even within the realm of the fantastic: e.g. full-on confiscation and proscription of all privately-owned firearms. For sure, even stringent checks would not prevent the thousands of deaths some seem to imagine it could. I doubt the effect of any increases to check-stringency would be beyond the magnitude of 1%.

someone you love
Does not compute.



As for spanky, I'll get to yours in 10 hours or so.