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Thankfully we have the 2nd amendment and your second 'choice' is the only valid one. There is no end to the way government will try and make you believe you are 'safe' while grin stripping you of your rights. Universal background checks would not have stopped this incident, or Sandy Hook, or any other 'mass shooting' in recent memory. To entertain such lunacy is to be part of the problem.Adding the violent wife-beating, child-skull-cracking, animal-abusing future killer's name on a "prohibited persons" list won't do much good when private party sales are unregulated.
So, we either need to go with universal background checks (all private sales get transferred through an FFL) OR we just accept that crazies, illegal aliens, felons, and others who could never pass a background check will be able to buy their weapons in face-to-face deals with private-party sellers they meet at gun shows, flea markets, newspaper ads, internet ads, etc.
Yes, freedom sometimes is messy. Thank God there are those that have died to keep it so.