{"id":87717,"date":"2022-11-15T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87717"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:28:10","slug":"87717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87717","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadly Consequences of Believing Gun Control Will Work<\/a><\/p>\n

A report by\u00a0Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a> may have opened some eyes\u2014albeit too late\u2014to the futility of passing ever-more-restrictive gun control measures, as the story includes a quote from Paul Donheffner, legislative committee chair of the Oregon Hunters Association, which opposed recently-passed anti-gun Measure 114.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is going to put a lot of honest citizens through the wringer,\u201d Donheffner said. \u201cThe people that are committing gun violence aren\u2019t going to get a [permit to purchase], you\u2019re not going to get a background check, you\u2019re not going to go through all this rigmarole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Measure 114 will require training and a police-issued permit (neither of which will be available when the initiative takes effect, thus effectively cancelling out the Second Amendment and Article I, Section 27 of the Oregon State Constitution) in order to purchase a firearm. The Second Amendment Foundation is currently preparing a legal challenge.<\/p>\n

Critics of the legislation concur with Donheffner\u2019s observation. It will not prevent any crimes and it will only inconvenience law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n

There may be no better example of gun control failure than Chicago, where the weekend saw \u201cdozens of people shot,\u201d according to\u00a0Fox News<\/a>. Among the victims was a 12-year-old girl shot in the neck during a drive-by, and a 64-year-old man killed during an attempted supermarket holdup.<\/p>\n

The Windy City has some of the most restrictive gun control laws, and it also has a body count of at least 580 people killed by gunfire out of the 640 homicides so far this year, according to the popular website,\u00a0heyjackass.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of this provides a contrast to a weekend Op-Ed piece posted by\u00a0NBC News<\/a>\u00a0touting the promise of Oregon\u2019s anti-gun-rights measure. Authors Ari Davis,\u00a0policy advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions,\u00a0and\u00a0Lisa Geller,\u00a0state affairs advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, assert Measure 114\u2019s licensing requirement for gun purchases will prevent \u201cmany dangerous people from purchasing guns and deters gun straw purchases carried out in order to traffic guns to criminal networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s assuming criminals go through the process to get their hands on guns, which Donheffner said emphatically is not going to happen.<\/p>\n

And the\u00a0Oregon Firearms Federation<\/a>\u00a0weighed in Monday with an email message stating, \u201c114 is clearly unconstitutional. Of that there is little doubt.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a matter of whether or not the courts can read the simple language of both the Oregon and United States Constitutions and the recent Supreme Court decision in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Federation announced the \u201cOregon Firearms Educational Foundation will use every resource at our disposal to overturn this mean spirited, evil attack on our rights in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least three county sheriffs in Oregon have already announced they will not enforce a tenet of the new law which bans so-called \u201clarge capacity magazines\u201d capable of holding more than ten cartridges.<\/p>\n

This all translates to a legal donnybrook brewing south of the Columbia River, which will be played out in federal court.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, however, true believers in gun control will continue pressing for increasing restrictions which only seem to affect law-abiding citizens, claiming that studies show more restrictive laws lower the violent crime rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deadly Consequences of Believing Gun Control Will Work A report by\u00a0Oregon Public Broadcasting may have opened some eyes\u2014albeit too late\u2014to the futility of passing ever-more-restrictive gun control measures, as the story includes a quote from Paul Donheffner, legislative committee chair of the Oregon Hunters Association, which opposed recently-passed anti-gun Measure 114. \u201cIt is going to … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87718,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions\/87718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}