Posted on 02/22/2015 2:07:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While Democrats, Gabby Giffords, and groups like Moms Demand Action claim that expanding background checks would end mass shootings, The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorist acts.
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“The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorist acts.”
Same IS happening here, so a legitimate premise.
I read an article maybe 30 years ago by a British Constable named Colin Greenwood. Several things he said, stuck with me. One of them was that there would always be enough guns for criminals.
That probably goes double for terrorists.
Background checks are doing just what they supposed to do. They make it difficult for law abiding citizens to get a firearm by adding more and more hoops to jump through while at the same time allowing criminals to keep doing what they do. All by design.
I am sure the next law will work/s
Seems that governments would know that whenever you make something illegal (prohibition, pot) or too expensive (cigarettes), a black market will spring up to meet the demand.
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