[elklindo69]

As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks.

Upon release in a few years from my current federal sentence on bank robbery and weapons charges, I fully anticipate being able to stop at a gun show on my way home to Connecticut -- where new laws have made it nearly impossible for a felon to readily purchase guns or ammunition -- in order to buy some with which to resume my criminal activities.

And so, a heartfelt thank you to the NRA and all those members of Congress voting with them. I, along with tens of thousands of other criminals, couldn't do what we do without you.

Gary W. Bornman,
The writer is an inmate at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo.

[RealJustme]

I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks...
The writer is an inmate at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo.

So are you saying the Obama Administration I now allowing prisoners to get weapons?

[Clownkicker]

"So are you saying the Obama Administration I now allowing prisoners to get weapons?"-RealJustme

Let's see how this clown thinks...
NRA = Obama
ex-con = prisoners

This explains why reactionaries' reading comprehension is so atrocious.

[sillydaddy]

Well the guy is thanking Congress and he is an inmate at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo. I can see why RealJustme would ask for a clarifcation, when even you Clown don't seem to understand what you wrote.

[johnforbes]

It is silly to think that a criminal would undergo a background check of any sort.

The problem with the so-called "universal" background checks was that psychiatric info would remain private and criminals wouldn't comply, so only the rights of good citizens would have been limited and nothing would have been done to lessen crime.

[elklindo69]

So this guy just happens to be a gun grabber who is a convicted felon???

[johnforbes]

Criminals won't undergo a background check of any sort.

The problem with the so-called "universal" background checks was that psychiatric info would remain private and criminals wouldn't comply, so only the rights of good citizens would have been limited and nothing would have been done to lessen crime.

[elklindo69]

Criminals won't undergo a background check of any sort.

The problem with the so-called "universal" background checks was that psychiatric info would remain private and criminals wouldn't comply, so only the rights of good citizens would have been limited and nothing would have been done to lessen crime.

Conservatives believe that we should not have any speed limits on highways because all speeders cannot be caught...

[RealJustme]

Elk doubles down on stupid.

[Clownkicker]

"Well the guy is thanking Congress and he is an inmate at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo. I can see why RealJustme would ask for a clarifcation,..."-sillydaddy

Let's see how this clown thinks...
Congress = Obama
prisoner who can't have weapons = allowing prisoners to have weapons
prisoner thanks NRA and Congress = it's reasonable to ask if Obama has some ludicrous magical power over the NRA and Congress

This explains why reactionaries' reading comprehension is so atrocious.

[johnforbes]

It is a false opposite to suggest only two alternatives exist -- total limits or zero limits.

Serious conversation relates to the enormous area between antipodal opposites.

[Clownkicker]

"antipodal opposites"

As opposed to what other kind of opposites, johnforbes?
Serious conversation is also not a result of trying to show off using $5 words redundantly when $1 words are sufficient.