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[–] Totenglocke 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Second, it's not a choice between no background checks at all, or background checks that are done so strict that people will fear going to the doctor.

Except that any has a chilling effect on people having to choose between seeking help and losing their rights. Would you support taking away the right to vote of anyone who got help for depression or any other mental illness? What about "if a doctor decides they're too unhealthy", then they lose their right to vote?

I mean would it really hurt to check if someone is a full-on psychopath, cartel member or murderer before selling a gun?

First off, background checks don't stop criminals from buying guns because they don't go to legally run stores to buy guns. So no criminal is prevented from buying a gun. Get that Hollywood bullshit out of your head, right now. That's like your delusion that a person intent on murdering children will walk up to a school with a gun and see a "no guns" sign and go "Aww, dammit. I guess I'll go home and watch TV instead...". These laws only affect the law abiding and the purpose of banning private sales (or as you call then "universal background checks") is to create a list of who has guns so the government knows who's doors to kick down (as we saw happen in New Orleans and Democrat politicians, including Senator Dianne Feinstein, have threatened to do to Americans many times). Secondly, if a person is too dangerous to own a gun, then they're too dangerous to be free. You can easily kill people with a car, knife, bat, etc. Hell, the worst incident of mass murder at a school in US history (the Bath School disaster) didn't involve any "evil" guns, simply some homemade bombs and a baseball bat. Why do you think that guns cause violence or that other forms of violence are OK? It's wrong for a wacko to use a gun to kill someone, but it's perfectly fine for him to stab them to death or set them on fire?

You are 100% against any sort of background check and there isn't a middle way you're willing to meet?

Background checks are unconstitutional. The men who wrote the Constitution didn't stutter, they clearly said that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Supreme Court even wrote a multi-page English lesson dissecting each word of the Second Amendment in the DC vs Heller ruling, thus humiliating anyone who tries to use the "collective right" bullshit. There's two types of adults in the US - those who are violent and cannot be trusted to be free among others and those who are not violent. You don't get to make people into second class citizens based on a whim or secret government lists where saying the wrong thing to the wrong government employee means losing your rights. Contrary to what our current politicians seem to believe, this is not the USSR.