USA should have more restrictions on guns

Good afternoon, I'm delighted to join this debate. Background Checks Let me start my rebuttal by discussing the role of background checks. The so called 40% loophole is very far from the truth. Any Gun Store that participates in a gun show is still operating as a business, and therefore required to conduct the Federally Required Background Check. What people are referring to are gun sales/transfers between private individuals. Does this occur? Of course it does. Every minute of every day someone is purchasing/transferring/gifting a firearm from someone without a background check. The response to this "problem" is the so called Universal Background Check. The problem with this solution is, how could it possibly be enforced? A gun store is easy because they must register with the government in order to operate as a business. The Government knows where it is, what paperwork that must kept for auditing, employee background checks, etc. A gun show would be easy as well because they advertise for months the location. Law enforcement could easily oversee such an event. But what about between private individuals? Every minute of every day people manufacture, transport, sell, and consume illegal narcotics despite both State and Federal Laws. How would laws on the transfer of firearms be any different? Since it cannot be enforced it would be a waste of taxpayer time and money to create the law, and a waste on law enforcement to enforce it. But then again, waste has never been a concern for the government ;) 90% of Americans want background checks! This will be more of my critical thinking than one of absolute fact. Whenever I hear 90% of Americans want background checks, several things go through my mind. 1) Was all of America polled? - There are over 180 million registered voters in the US. Each poll taken have an average of 1000-3000 responses. 2) Where was the poll? - It's extremely difficult to find truly neutral ground to conduct a poll. A poll on MSNBC will have a different outcome than one created by FOX. 3) When was the last time 90% of Americans agreed on ANYTHING? - There is no question that the US is more divided now than at any other time since the Civil War. To claim that 90% of Americans agree on something, especially something as controversial as gun control, is very suspicious to me. Why can't we be like the UK? It's true, the UK/Japan/Australia/ETC have lower gun violence/gun death rates than the US. Did they achieve this by enacting Universal Background checks? No. Did they achieve this by banning "Assault" weapons? No. Did they achieve this by limiting the number of firearms any single individual can own? No. They achieved it by banning ALL firearms. A total ban is the only way to have a total reduction in the number of gun deaths and the number of gun crimes. Several prominent activist groups and people have expressed their desire for a total gun ban, but they are just as extreme as the people who demand their right to own a F22. The majority of people in the US do NOT advocate a total firearm ban. So until we have a majority and ban all firearms, we will never be like the UK/Australia/Japan. We register our Cars, why not our Guns? We arrive in what I refer to as "The Grey Zone". The mysterious and deadly zone of confusion, misinterpretation, and downright ignorance. Do we register our cars because we own them? No. We register them because we DRIVE them. There is no law that requires your vehicle be registered if it is to remain on private property. They are required to be registered in order to drive them on PUBLIC roads. But here is the crucial element that divides the PRO Gun side and the PRO Gun Control side - Driving a car on PUBLIC roads is NOT a right. You, nor I, nor anyone, has the right to drive a car. In order to exercise this PRIVILEGE you have to agree to abide by the rules, laws, and regulations of that privilege. Owning a Firearm, however, is a right. It was a right before the US was created, and will continue to be a right long after the US is gone. The Government is NOT after your guns you crazies!!! No part of the gun control debate is as toxic, ruins relationships, and gets you on a "watch" list more than the idea that the 2nd Amendment was written as a reminder that the Citizens have the right to own ARMS in order to use them against our own government. Here's the thing, that's EXACTLY what the 2nd Amendment was written for. The PRO Gun Control side argues that the 2nd Amendment was written to protect hunting. But in 1776 the right to hunt was obvious to all Founders that it was not needed to be written down. Why? If you didn't hunt, you didn't eat. The Pro Gun Control side argues that the 2nd Amendment was written so that the US could protect itself from outside nations and internal threats such as native american attacks. But if you keep reading the Constitution it clearly states that the Government has the authority to raise armies to protect the homeland. Why state the same thing twice? Redundancies are one thing, inefficiency is another. The 13 States had just won a brutal and bloody war of Secession by using their firearms against their own government. Our Founders knew that the natural order of Government is to grow, consume, and become tyrannical until the next revolution. Our Founders had ZERO faith in the government they had just created. That is why there is a Bill of Rights.