Posted on 06/18/2015 6:09:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Liberals up to and including the president are already using the tragedy at the SC church to try to advance gun control, so it begs the question, what gun control law would have prevented the tragedy?
Assault weapon bans are a favorite of anti gunners basically because they are scary looking and have large magazines. Yet reports say Roof reloaded up to 5 times. Clearly a new AWB would not have prevented the massacre.
What about universal registration? The answer is simple, it wouldn't. Universal registration is only valuable to the police to track the last person who bought the gun from a licensed dealer.
And the latest darling of the anti-gunners, universal background checks for all gun transfers. From the news reports the shooter had never been convicted of a felony or domestic violence so even if he had to pass a background check, he would have passed.
Then there is the old standby, waiting periods before you can take possession of a firearm. Wouldn't have helped since he obtained the firearm months before the crime. Besides if someone is planning to commit a mass killing, they would not be deterred by waiting a few days or even a few months. It didn't stop Adam Lanza from murdering his mother and taking her guns.
Anti-gunners would love to force everyone to undergo a psychological evaluation before "allowing" them to own a firearm. To a liberal wanting to own a firearm is enough evidence to say you are too paranoid to have one. However, that aside, Dylan Roof's friends all say that aside from the occasional racist joke, he showed no signs of murderous racism and no mental disorder. Also, almost anyone who was planning on murdering multiple people would be clever enough to conceal it from a psychologist.
So what does that leave? Total confiscation from the public? Besides being unconstitutional, it would start a civil war that would not be pretty. Also it didn't stop a person in China from getting a gun and shooting 5 people.
So, tell me, Mr. President, what would have prevented this?
We were saved by the five year old in the church who fell to the floor and played dead. If the gun grabbers had her picture on every TV screen, gun control would be a lock right now. But they don’t, so I don’t think the emotional push they need.
I go to Synagogue every Saturday for Shabbat services, our temple has armed security guards posted at the entrance, when you go up the stairs, and one outside the door. I dont understand why more places of worship dont have armed security
How about a ban of all firearms, including hunting weapons, and down to pellet rifles, punishable by death, you have 7 days t turn in your currently owned firearms.
It appears that Christians are being targeted, more than ever.
The cops can’t protect every church, every day.
That is an invalid question. Insane and criminal minds don't follow laws and it is them that by hook or crook steal or illegally get possession of a firearm. It is them that will ALWAYS be able to get possession of a firearm to carry out their insane or illegal acts. That, or put everyone insane, drug addicted, criminal in jail forever.
As I understand it, even the draconian laws proposed by the grabbers after Sandy Hook could not have prevented it. What most people in this country no longer believe is that there is not a law solution to every problem.
So the rule of law and the US Constitution is now not in force.
Got it. Holy crap.
Good for them. I can’t blame them.
Fine, let them try to take them. More than a few will die, as well as the tyrants who sent them.
It is so much easier to blame the gun than to reopen the thousands of mental hospitals that were closed by the democrats years ago because their patients were entitled to their freedom.......which the VAST majority did not want and who became our homeless.
Of course, it didn't prevent any one of these governments from murdering tens of millions of innocent people by all sorts of means - including "legal" guns.
Probably because they can’t afford it.
Exodus 20:13
Do not murder.
Another observation I always have in the back of my mind is that the first man born of a woman was a murderer.
This stuff just does not shock me any more, the nation is crawling with demons.
Pray for protection at all times and incline to the right with the LORD.
Any law he would have followed.
One that states all Americans must be armed and ready at all times.
A law requiring every church to have at least one member designated as an armed guard.
The only thing that would stop him is the recent drug conviction. You cannot own as an ‘addict’ for a period of one year after a conviction, or if you have two drug arrests within 5 years and the last one was within a year.
Not unless he had a drug conviction recently, and from what I hear he hadn't been convicted on the April charge yet. Arrest != conviction.
I see there are a number of irresponsible loudmouths on the left abusing their 1st amendment right. Maybe they should be stripped of it?
True. The one thing that Hollywood gets right about gun is that bad guys will always be able to get anything they want, even machine guns.
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