Posted on 02/22/2015 1:29:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the editors of the Washington Post still support background checks on private firearm transactions, along with bans on detachable-magazine-fed semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns, and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. And they’ll call you a “coward” if you disagree.
However, at least two of the newspaper’s reporters who live in the real world have figured out that none of these restrictions stop criminals from committing crimes. From London, Griff Witte and Karla Adam report that “[g]etting a gun legally in Europe may be hard, but terrorists have little trouble.”
While gun control advocates in the United States harp about banning semi-automatic rifles and private transfers, and often use other nations’ gun laws as the paradigm to which they strive in the U.S., the Telegraph reports that the recent terrorist attacks in Paris were committed with fully-automatic rifles smuggled from Slovakia. Similarly, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation reports that the more recent terrorist attack at a cultural event in Copenhagen was committed with a fully-automatic rifle that was stolen from a member of the Danish Home Guard. Witte’s and Adam’s article thus notes that both attacks “were carried out by former small-time criminals turned violent extremists who obtained military-grade illicit weapons with apparent ease.”
In their next attempt to promote gun control, the Washington Post’s editors will not likely point out that the terrorists who committed those crimes failed to submit themselves to background checks before taking possession of their weapons. They may also omit that the perpetrators’ guns were smuggled and stolen, rather than bought at a gun show or from someone they met after responding to “for sale” ads posted on a firearm website in the United States. Doing so would only point out the utter futility of private transfer bans (which only affect the law-abiding), and thus cause readers to better understand that gun control’s ultimate target is none other than themselves.
Burglaries and illegal gun sales happen every day in this country and yeah they’re linked. What are the feds going to do? Pass a law to stop it? Surely the criminals will abide by it.../s
“And they’ll call you a “coward” if you disagree”
No they wont. Not to your face anyway. They are liberals, the
most cowardly of cowards.
Background checks are doing exactly what the government wants them to do, generating data that tells the government who is buying the guns together with a description/serial number of the weapon and the address of the buyer. That will come in quite handy a little later down the road.
Witte and Adams have thus ended their WaPo careers...
More crap from the Washington COMpost pile!
The plan is to create a national registry.
There’s been more than the usual amount of stink coming off these scheissers lately. Panic time for the Left, I’m thinking.
Background checks are unconstitutional.
Eff the federal government.
If Background Checks were in place during the founding of this nation, the Founders would have been executed by the British with that information.
That is usually down the list of the speech suppression words they love to use.
Racist! Is at the top of that particular list.
They expect to be able to scream that at you at the top of their lungs and instantly silence any contrary opinions.
One more law ought to do it.
Achmed is perfectly ready to kill, but a pesky law on IBC’s will do the trick straight away!
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