The Reasonable Compromise

I kind of hate to link to Claire Wolfe because she's probably on some list, but she suggests that the banning of private sales and universal background checks will be offered as a reasonable compromise.  She explains why this is not reasonable.  Both the article and the comments are worth the time to read. 

I suggested, with much less wisdom and eloquence, something similar a few days ago.

It seems to me that these police-state politicians are way too eager to know who has what kind of gun and how many.  The "reasonable" attack may be via pressure on Congress to close the "gun show loophole", to "encourage" checks for private transactions.

It is also possible that Congress will yet go tell Obama to pound sand.  If they do, Obama will attempt.to circumvent the law.  How will he do that exactly?  He will find a regulatory way to put pressure on manufacturers of guns and ammunition through the Department of Labor, the EPA, the Justice Department, banks, etc.

They are not going to give this up.  In the minds of the police-state totalitarians, we must be disarmed.

Oh, look here, Breitbart's Hawkins speculates on Holder's push for new rules:  ... the third measure "would authorize the FBI to retain records on denied firearms transactions in a separate database for longer than 10 years."

Some of the comments on Breitbart are indicative of the kind of "reasonableness" that Wolfe fears.  What could possibly go wrong with the federal government creating a "no-buy" list of American citizens?  For one thing it is illegal and useless.  For another, without any legislation being enacted, it could easily become an "enemies' list" maintained by the ATF (of course we can trust the murderers of children at Waco and the creators of Fast and Furious).