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Here's what the media won't tell you,

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the NRA

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has fought for 20 years to put the records of those

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adjudicated mentally incompetent into the

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National Instant Checks System.

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And until the politicians demand that they are

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submitted,

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killers who are legally prohibited from owning

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firearms will walk into gun stores and pass every

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background check they take.

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So if they really wanted to make a difference,

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the media would lead every newscast with a

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reminder

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that the names of millions of violent felons,

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criminal gang bangers,

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and adjudicated mentally incompetent and

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dangerous people are missing from the background

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checks system.

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But no one gets ratings by telling the truth

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about how to stop mass killers.

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So they don't report that 38 states submit less than

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eighty percent of their felony convictions to the

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system,

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leaving more than seven million felony

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convictions in the dark.

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They don't tell you the truth,

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instead, the only thing the average American has

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heard about background checks

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is the absolute fallacy that what we need is more.

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The system is only as good as the records within

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it,

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and the records

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only get submitted if the politicians demand it.

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What do the Oregon killer,

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the WDBJ killer,

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the Charleston church killer,

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the Santa Barbara killer,

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the Maryland mall killer,

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the LA airport killer,

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the DC Navy Yard killer,

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the Aurora movie theater killer,

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the Tucson killer,

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the Virginia Tech killer,

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and both Fort Hood killers have in common?

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Every single one of them passed a background

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check.

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If you cast a net and the fish swim through the

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holes,

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you don't need a bigger net,

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you need tighter holes.

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But when it comes to a background check system

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that's missing the names of millions of

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prohibited people,

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the politicians don't want to fix it.

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The best kept secret is that the National Instant

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Check System wouldn't exist at all

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if it weren't for the NRA.

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It's true.

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Back in the 90s, President Clinton forced

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passage of a mandatory waiting period on every

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hand gun purchase in America,

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not a background check.

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A wait.

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But NRA said as soon as the technology was

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available,

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their wait

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had to be replaced by an instant background check

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done by the dealer at the point of sale.

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NRA supported it.

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NRA got the votes.

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and

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NRA got it passed.

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We demanded an honest system that was supposed to

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make sure good people can purchase firearms as

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quickly as possible.

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A system that catches violent felons,

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and adjudicated mentally incompetent and dangerous,

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and every other prohibited person right at the point

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of sale,

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where they would be prosecuted for a federal

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felony, but they aren't.

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What has happened instead

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is one of the greatest failures in the history of

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American leadership.

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In 2010, roughly 80,000

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prohibited people committed a felony by trying to

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buy a gun.

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Just 44

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were prosecuted for it.

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Does that sound like a good number to anybody?

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So when you hear politicians who won't fix the

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broken system talk about expanding it,

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don't buy it.

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Demand what works.

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Put armed security in every school.

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Fix the broken mental health system.

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Enforce the federal gun laws against every

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criminal thug on the street.

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Prosecute dangerous people when they show up to

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buy a gun.

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And for God's sake put every prohibited person into

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the system.

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That's what common sense gun laws look like.