{"id":81238,"date":"2022-05-19T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81238"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:31:17","slug":"81238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81238","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2022\/05\/19\/gun-control-fails-n58444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There&#8217;s a reason why gun control fails after mass shootings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of any mass shooting, we hear a lot about gun control. Proponents of it argue we simply need to embrace it to make such shootings a thing of the past. It just hasn\u2019t worked out for them.<\/p>\n<p>Over at Axios, they decided to lament this fact by pointing out all the times gun control failed to materialize after a mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>What they miss is that there\u2019s a reason it didn\u2019t pass in pretty much all of those cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Sandy Hook, December 2012<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, in which 26 victims \u2014 including 20 children \u2014 were killed, Congress\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/senate-obama-gun-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"proposed\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/senate-obama-gun-control.html\" data-vars-content-id=\"88f49cb9-0c0e-4bf6-ae4d-d382b8e96280\" data-vars-headline=\"Failed gun legislation is the norm after mass shootings like Buffalo tragedy\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">proposed<\/a>\u00a0a bipartisan bill expanding background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons and a ban on high-capacity gun magazines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Part of the reason that didn\u2019t pass was that the killer didn\u2019t purchase his gun. He murdered his own mother and took an AR-15 that she lawfully purchased\u2013and underwent and passed a background check for\u2013to use it to carry out that particular atrocity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expanding background checks wouldn\u2019t have prevented such an attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Charleston church, June 2015<\/h5>\n<p>When a white man opened fire at a Black church congregation in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, Democrats proposed legislation to tighten background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats sought to eliminate what became known as the \u201cCharleston loophole,\u201d which allows people with incomplete background checks to purchase guns after three days,\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/10\/gun-control-jim-clyburn-480708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"Politico reports\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/10\/gun-control-jim-clyburn-480708\" data-vars-content-id=\"88f49cb9-0c0e-4bf6-ae4d-d382b8e96280\" data-vars-headline=\"Failed gun legislation is the norm after mass shootings like Buffalo tragedy\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">Politico reports<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>And that remains because going beyond those three days is too much of an infringement on people\u2019s Second Amendment rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What people have to remember is that the three-day window was put in place to appease gun rights advocates who worried that people could be long-term denied the ability to purchase a firearm simply because their background checks never came back.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day window remains because no one trusts the government enough to take it away.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>San Bernardino, December 2015<\/h5>\n<p>A shooting at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health holiday party killed 14 people and injured 22 others.<\/p>\n<p>One day after the shooting, the Senate rejected two gun control proposals introduced by Democrats on background checks,\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2015\/12\/03\/senate-democrats-to-force-gun-control-votes-in-the-wake-of-the-san-bernardino-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"the Washington Post reports\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2015\/12\/03\/senate-democrats-to-force-gun-control-votes-in-the-wake-of-the-san-bernardino-shooting\/\" data-vars-content-id=\"88f49cb9-0c0e-4bf6-ae4d-d382b8e96280\" data-vars-headline=\"Failed gun legislation is the norm after mass shootings like Buffalo tragedy\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">the Washington Post reports<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>California pass universal background checks in 1991. The killers in this case\u00a0<em>still<\/em>\u00a0acquired weapons illegally and without undergoing a background check.<\/p>\n<p>Why pass more of what clearly didn\u2019t work?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Pulse Nightclub, June 2016<\/h5>\n<p>The proposed bills would have prevented people on the federal terrorism watch list from buying guns and closed loopholes in background check laws, per the Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that one failed because there\u2019s no due process on the terrorism watchlist. You can be added for any reason and aren\u2019t told you\u2019re on it. Getting yourself removed is a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the terrorism watch list is a list of names. There are no other identifiers. So if a terrorist named Tom Knighton exists somewhere on Earth, I don\u2019t get to purchase a firearm under this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it\u2019s an absolute mystery why this didn\u2019t pass.<\/p>\n<p>Look, you\u2019re starting to see how this goes, and Axios does continue.<\/p>\n<p>For example, they bring up Atlanta and how background check bills didn\u2019t pass despite President Biden calling for just that, but the shooter in that one actually passed a background check. They tie this to Boulder, but he also passed a background check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time and time again, there\u2019s a mass shooting, then lawmakers make demands for laws that wouldn\u2019t do anything to stop the attack, but would do wonders for infringing on people\u2019s rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look, gun control isn\u2019t the answer to this. Especially since the two high-profile attacks we saw last weekend were both in heavily gun-controlled states.<\/p>\n<p>Gun control doesn\u2019t pass because, in each of these cases, it\u2019s clear that the laws proposed wouldn\u2019t have done a damn thing. Further, each of these is actually something of a black swan event, meaning they\u2019re\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the norm, despite people trying to pretend they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I\u2019m actually OK with inaction from Congress on this. Frankly, I prefer inaction in Congress on most things, but especially here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are better ways to handle mass shootings than infringing on the rights of the non-shooters, especially when it\u2019s clear that infringement wouldn\u2019t have stopped diddly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason why gun control fails after mass shootings In the wake of any mass shooting, we hear a lot about gun control. Proponents of it argue we simply need to embrace it to make such shootings a thing of the past. It just hasn\u2019t worked out for them. 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