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DEMOCRATS PUT POLITICS INTO FIREARM LEGISLATION BACKGROUND CHECKS ONLYCREATED NEW TAX, AND REGISTRY OF GUNS
BY U.S. SEN. TED CRUZ
In the national debate over gun control, emotion and rhetoric often overshadow the facts. Consider what President Barack Obama said inthe wake of the tragic murders at Sandy Hook: "If there's even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that canbe saved, then we've got an obligation to try." Of course he's right; we should do everything we can to stop violent gun crime. But then whydid Democrats in the Senate just vote down common-sense legislation that would have made major progress in actually stopping gun crime?The only answer is politics. There are two basic approaches to gun legislation: We can target violent criminals and those with serious mentalillnesses or we can restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens. Obama and U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, favor the latter. But the formeris what actually works. Here are three facts that Obama does not want to address:
The Obama administration has not made it a priority to prosecute felons and fugitives who try to illegally purchase guns. Indeed, in 2010,48,321 fugitives and felons tried to illegally purchase firearms. The Obama administration prosecuted just 44. Forty-four out of 48,321.1 Under Obama, gun crime prosecutions hit a decade low in 2011 - down 30 percent from their record high in 2004. Obama's budgets haveslashed funding for school safety. If the objective were to stop violent gun crime, the approach would be to target felons, gun-crimeprosecution and school safety.And that's exactly what the Grassley-Cruz bill would have done. It allocated $50 million to create a task forceto prosecute felons and fugitives trying to illegally purchase guns; it provided $45 million to increase gun-crime prosecution in the 15 mostdangerous U.S. cities; and it restored $300 million in school-safety funding that the Obama budget had cut. The legislation had the mostbipartisan support of all the gun proposals; Democrats cast nine of the 52 yes votes. But the remaining Democrats, led by Reid, filibusteredand killed the bill. Why? They wanted instead to pass legislation that would extend the background check system to private sales betweenlaw-abiding citizens. Their bill would not have allocated one penny to prosecuting felons, fugitives or gun crimes. But it was poll-tested."Universal background checks" are popular, at least until people learn what that entails. Under current law, every federally licensed firearmsdealer must perform a background check on every single gun sale, whether that sale occurs in a store, at a gun show or online. Individualcitizens, however, are not required to do the same for private sales. The bill Obama seeks would turn Americans into felons for simplyselling or transferring a firearm without first performing a background check, with fines and penalties up to five years. A recent nationalpoll of law-enforcement officers showed that they overwhelmingly disagree this would bring down gun crime. If regulating private saleswouldn't be effective at stopping violent crime, why are the Democrats pushing so hard for it? For one thing, it would impose a universalObama "gun tax" on private sales - requiring individual citizens to pay for the new background checks. Even more ominously, the long-termobjective of extending background checks to private citizens is the creation of a national gun registry, a federal government list of everyfirearm owned by every American. To be sure, the latest Senate legislation purports to prohibit a gun registry, but the Obama JusticeDepartment has been explicit about its ultimate objective. In January 2013, Greg Ridgeway, deputy director of DOJ's National Institutefor Justice, wrote, "effectiveness (of universal background checks) depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gunregistration and an easy gun transfer process." And gun registration has historically been the predicate for gun confiscation. SenateDemocrats reply that gun confiscation is not their objective. But the record belies that claim. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has said that,"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them (assault weapons) …Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it." Given those stated objectives, Americans are understandably reluctant to takeany steps down a path toward a federal gun registry. Instead, we should protect the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms forlaw-abiding citizens. And we should do what works: targeting felons, fugitives and gun crime and improving school safety. If we look atthe facts, that's how we stop violent crime.
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Awareness of seat belts and risks of not wearing them play critical role in saving lives
Texans wear their belt buckles with a certain Lone Star pride, but it’s the buckles in their vehicles that could savetheir lives. More functional thanfashionable, life-saving seat belts first debuted 45 years ago when Lyndon B.Johnson’s National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and The Highway Safety Act went into effect, mandatingthat all automobiles have seat belts as a standard feature. To honor President Johnson’s pioneering dedication tosafety, the Texas Department of Transportation today launched its 12th annual Click It or Ticket campaign at theLBJ Library in Austin with a car show demonstrating the progression of seat belts through the ages. “The cost ofnot wearing seat belts is far greater than a ticket or fine,” said Phil Wilson, TxDOT executive director. “Simply put,a seat belt could save your life. Public awareness is working, but we still see some teenagers, pickup truckpassengers and rural Texans who aren’t buckling up.” Taking a cue from LBJ’s leadership, Texas has made seat beltsafety a major priority and is proud to be one of the most buckled up states in the union. When the Click It or Ticketcampaign began in 2002, only 76 percent of Texans buckled up. Today, 94 percent are wearing seat belts. TheNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the Click It or Ticket campaign has saved nearly 3,700lives and prevented more than 50,000 serious injuries since its launch. The increase in seat belt usage also hassavedan estimated $10 billion in wages and productivity losses, medical expenses, insurance premiums, taxes and othercosts. Despite an increase in seat belt compliance, there is more work to be done with the lives of Texans at stake.Initial TxDOT data from 2012 indicates traffic-related fatalities in Texas are up by 11 percent. In 2012, there were3,400 fatalities due to traffic crashes across the state. Data also shows that only 82 percent of pickup passengers arebuckled when riding compared to more than 91 percent of passengers riding in cars. Pickups also are more likelythan passenger cars to roll over or eject unrestrained occupants in a crash. As part of the Click It or Ticket initiative,law enforcement officials across the state will be looking for and ticketing unbuckled drivers and passengers in aneffort to raise safety awareness and prevent fatalities. By Texas law, all occupants of a vehicle, including back seatpassengers, must wear a seat belt. Each unbuckled occupant faces a ticket and fines up to $200, plus court costs.Last year, more than 21,200 seat belt citations were issued during the Click It or Ticket campaign. This year's ClickIt or Ticket enforcement period dates are May 20th-June 2nd. Learn more about Click It or Ticket by liking theTxDOT Facebook page at www.facebook.com/txdot or visiting www.texasclickitorticket.com.
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