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SpokenTruth said:
sc94597 said:

Background checks don't take a few days though. They take a few minutes to hours.

The whole point about compromise is that there are some things that are important to one party but other things which can be horse-traded on. That is how parliamentary reprsentative politics works. 

What is the big benefit of registration that it is worth killing the other, more effective reform for it?

And it is not just the far right that is skeptical of registration. The guy who posted that proposal says he is a "liberal gun owner" and I am on the far-left, a proudhonian socialist. 

Sorry, I'm used to having a 3 day waiting period to act as a cooling off buffer to reduce heat of the moment type purchases. 

As for compromise....registration and background checks ARE part of the compromise.  The lack of an outright ban is why registration and backgrounds checks are a compromise.

Are you skeptical of registration as a precursor to confiscation?

What percentage of murders by people who bought guns in the "heat of the moment?" I am not convinced this is an extant problem which must be resolved.

Compromise is not, "we will do only a little bit of what you don't want." Compromise is an exchange, "I give you a policy reform you want and in exchange you reform something I want.We won't touch those things which we chose not to budge on."

I am less skeptical of registration as a means of confiscation and see it more as a means of criminalization of the otherwise  peaceful, because those proposing it know very well that the overwhelming majority refuse to abide by the registration requirement. It is an onerous requirement with no purpose other than to create a misdemeanor or felon who wouldn't otherwise exist as a criminal.