' Yesterday on Fox News, Ted Cruz went after the Obama administration because “in 2010, 48,000 felons & fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns, [the Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them.” He touted a 2013 bill he co-sponsored that, among many other gun-related provisions, would have created a task force and allocated $50 million over five years to prosecute more people who try to buy guns and are rejected during the background check.' ' Let’s start with the legitimate reasons these cases might not be prosecuted. One focus of conservative criminal-justice reform lately has been “mens rea,” or rules concerning the state of mind a person is in when he commits a crime. ' There is constant howling here for backgrounds checks for everybody , for all occasions , that it is the key to preventing violence...I think not Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...un-background-checks-usually-arent-prosecuted
The key to preventing violence is simple: segregate the violent from the peaceable, and keep them segregated until they are no longer violent.
