You’re hearing a deafening chorus demanding new gun regulations to “do something” about mass shootings. President Joe Biden said it in his nationally televised speech last week: “Do something. Just do something. For God’s sake, do something.”
But here’s one problem: the desperate desire to “do something” blinds gun-control advocates to the fact that their so-called solutions won’t do anything. And here’s an even bigger problem: too many conservatives and Republicans accept the flawed premises of the gun-control movement.
By now we’re all familiar with the reflexive response of the political left and their allies in the mass media: they want to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens to possess and use firearms. But why are knowledgeable conservatives accepting and even promoting gun-control measures?
Take columnist Cal Thomas, a respected conservative figure. Shortly after the Uvalde shooting, Thomas wrote that “examining prospective purchasers more closely might help, along with waiting periods and more rigorous background checks.”
Say what? The Uvalde shooter passed a background check to obtain his rifle. Why would anyone suppose that a “more rigorous” background check would turn up anything? Most young, twisted school shooters are not career criminals and don’t have significant records of any kind. Two political scientists from the University of Missouri analyzed the data on every mass shooting in the U.S. between 1980 and 2020. They concluded that background-check requirements did nothing to reduce the number of deaths in mass shootings. Time magazine ran its own study in 2019 and concluded that “it was difficult to point to cases where more expansive background checks would have saved lives.”
And why would a leftist nostrum like a waiting period help? The New York Post reportedthat the Uvalde shooter had been planning his rampage for eight months. Would he have abandoned his murderous scheme if a few more days had elapsed?
Fox News trotted out journalist Judith Miller, who argued that “there is no place on American streets” for “military assault weapons.” Miller said she spoke “as someone who has been embedded with the U.S. military many times.” But given all this experience, she should know that the firearms in question, AR-15-style rifles, are not “military assault weapons.” They are ordinary civilian firearms that have been on the market for nearly sixty years. Tens of millions of citizens own and use AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons for lawful purposes, including self-defense, hunting, and target shooting. True “military assault weapons” are fully automatic firearms—that is, machine guns. If you don’t understand the difference between an automatic and semiautomatic firearm, you have no right to speak on this issue.
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”SMH WITH THIS ASS BACKWARDS THINKING LETS ME KNOW EVERYTHING. THE PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO GET RID OF THEIR GUNS PERIOD.
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