Here's the link. Read it your own risk ~ and please realize that this one, or other groups like it, do not represent the overall spirit of the US. They are only a tiny example of why it seems right that the word 'fringe' rhymes with 'cringe'.

Just out of curiousity, what do the background checks consist of?

I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here – they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.

I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

The only difference is that John Howard, Australian Prime Minister at the time, banned guns of any sort. That was about the only decent policy decision that he made but it has saved a lot of lives.

The Land of the Free has had four Presidents killed, and quite a few 'dented'. Isn't it about time that people realise that guns DO kill people? The right to bear arms may have made sense in the 18th century, but these days it just seems to be an excuse.

HomicideThe US homicide rate, which has declined substantially since 1991, is still among the highest in the industrialized world. There were 17,034 murders in the United States in 2006[30] (666,160 murders from 1960 to 1996).[31] In 2004, there were 5.5 homicides for every 100,000 persons, roughly three times as high as Canada (1.9) and six times as high as Germany (0.9). A closer look at The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data indicates that per-capita homicide rates over the last 30 years on average of major cities, New Orleans' average per capita homicide rate of 52 murders per 100,000 people overall (1980–2009) ranks highest among major U.S. cities[32][33] Most industrialized countries had homicide rates below the 2.5 mark.

Homicide statistics
Over the past 18 years (1 July 1989 to 30 June 2007), the rate of homicide incidents decreased from 1.9 in 1990-91 and 1992-93 to the second-lowest recorded rate, of 1.3, in 2006-07.

Phelps didn't show up. They sold out to get more press.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/6038/53/

I guess it says something good about society that even these idiots get to the right to talk.

Inciting hatred and provoking violence are offences here