Mike Rowe Absolutely Crushes Obama In Debate Of Gun Control Mike Rowe made a long Facebook post attacking Obama on the topic of gun control. We couldnt agree with him more. Hello Friends For some reason, I was not among those celebrities selected to assist The White House in this endeavor. Ive since recovered from my initial disappointment, and identified three possible explanations for the oversight. 1. The White House did not ask for my assistance, because they do not believe Im famous enough to persuade anyone of anything. With respect to #1, The White House is correct. My powers of persuasion, like my celebrity, are limited. Currently, thousands of people deemed mentally incompetent by the courts are NOT registered in our National Check System. Thats insane, if youll pardon the irony, in part because its so easily correctible. Likewise, The ATF says that most states report less than 80% of their felony convictions to the national system. As a result, nearly 7 million convicted felons are not currently registered. Is it any surprise that nearly every mass killer in recent memory passed a background check? Seems to me, our current system is only as good as the records in it, and right now, those records are laughably incomplete. But even more troubling are the tens of thousands of people who ARE in the system, that keep trying to buy guns illegally with absolutely no consequence. Lying on your application to purchase a firearm is a federal offense, but very few are prosecuted for doing so. According to Politico, the Feds have prosecuted just 1.5% of all those individuals who have attempted to purchase a gun illegally. If my math is correct, that means 98.5% of people who are NOT allowed to own a gun, have not been prosecuted for trying to buy one. Maybe its a manpower problem? Maybe its a resource problem? But whatever the reason, many thousands of individuals who try to purchase a gun illegally are allowed to keep on trying. Many eventually succeed, and then use that gun in the commission of a crime. This strikes me a serious problem. And yet, Ive received no tweets from my favorite action heroes, asking me to support an effort to fix the system we have. Why is that? To be clear, Im not a member of The NRA. Last time I joined a club it was The Boy Scouts, and that was a long time ago. But from what I can tell, the NRA is not the reason that so many criminals and lunatics are able to buy guns today. Nor do they appear to oppose the kind of overhaul that would give us a more effective check system. In fact, wasnt it The NRA that demanded background checks back in the mid-nineties, the moment the technology was first made available? Regardless, we now possess the technology to update and maintain an accurate data base of felons, lunatics, gang members, terrorists, B-list celebrities, and other unsavory types that we can all agree should never be allowed to own a weapon. We also possess the ability to identify and prosecute anyone who attempts to buy a gun illegally. But if we dont have the resources or the commitment to administer and enforce the system we have, why in the world would we want to make it bigger? #When your foundation is shaky, you dont keep building on top of it, you knock it down and start over. Hey it seems to be working for Trump Mike What an awesome man. He has our full support. Do you agree that gun control is counterproductive? 