{"id":97323,"date":"2023-10-31T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97323"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:58:56","slug":"97323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97323","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gun Control Industry and the Media Want New Laws in Maine That Would Have Done Nothing to Stop the Lewiston Shooting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the\u00a0failures<\/a>\u00a0that are being discovered that led to the Lewiston, Maine shooting, the Gun Control Industry is, as usual, pointing at the state\u2019s allegedly lax regulation of guns. Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun agitprop outlet The Trace asked,\u00a0Will Maine\u2019s Permissive Gun Laws Change After the Lewiston Shooting?<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly possible. Democrats are in full control of state government, so the odds are in their favor in that regard. That doesn\u2019t mean, however, that there would be any merit to changing Maine\u2019s gun laws. Not given the laws they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s becoming clear that they see this as a \u201cgrab bag\u201d opportunity to enact more gun control laws in the Pine Tree State. They aren\u2019t just talking about laws that could plausibly have made a difference in this case, either. They want to crack down on gun rights in general.<\/p>\n

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Maine doesn\u2019t have restrictions on AR-style rifles, like the one apparently used by the Lewiston gunman, nor does it regulate high-capacity magazines<\/span>.<\/em><\/div>\n
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If the killer had used a Mini-14 with a ten-round magazine, would the death toll have been lower? That seems a tenuous claim, considering how fast reloads actually happen when someone knows what they are doing (as this veteran and firearm instructor did, sadly). And it was reported that the\u00a0Parkland shooter used 10-round magazines<\/a>\u00a0on purpose because they fit better into his backpack. Yet he managed to kill and wound a similar number of people.<\/p>\n

\u2026a measure requiring the prompt reporting of lost or stolen firearms\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of the rare gun laws I do support, so long as it provides a fair amount of time to comply, and conditioned on when you become aware of a lost or stolen gun. If you become aware you lost a gun or had one stolen, tell the police about it ASAP. But such a law, of course, wouldn\u2019t have done anything to stop the Maine shooting if it had been on the books.<\/p>\n

But [Bates College professor Michael] Rocque said the state\u2019s \u201cinconsistent\u201d rules around guns \u2014 which require residents to take a safety course and exam to qualify for a hunting license but don\u2019t require anything of concealed handgun carriers \u2014 are in dire need of an update.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is where the push for more gun control after a tragedy really becomes something of a loot-fest, trying to take full advantage of the situation while it\u2019s still in the news. Carry permit requirements are completely irrelevant to mass shooters. They obviously aren\u2019t going to be concerned in the slightest about not having a carry permit when their intention is to commit mass murder.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an utterly absurd argument that, again, would have had no impact at all on what Robert Card did.<\/p>\n

Even outside of the mass shooting context, Professor Rocque\u2019s implication is that the lack of a permit requirement is inherently unsafe. That\u2019s an extraordinary claim, given that Maine has one of the\u00a0lowest homicide rates<\/a>\u00a0in the nation. Maine\u2019s homicide rate is so low that more people were killed in Lewiston in this one incident than are usually murdered in the state in an entire year.<\/p>\n

The Trace article concludes that while other gun control pushes aren\u2019t possible under the state\u2019s rules until next year, they can still try to enact universal background checks in January.<\/p>\n

Again, that would have had zero impact on the Lewiston shooter. The Lewiston killer\u00a0bought his guns legally<\/a>. When that happened or whether or not he lied about his history of mental illness at the time isn\u2019t yet clear, but he did undergo a background check.<\/p>\n

As is so frequently the case, the Gun Control Industry and politicians seem determined to punish the community of law-abiding gun owners for the inherent failures of the regulatory system they\u2019ve built<\/p>\n

As more details are learned about Robert Card, his mental history, and the\u00a0failures of law enforcement<\/a>\u00a0in this situation, the more it becomes clear that Maine\u2019s allegedly lax gun laws did nothing to make the Lewiston shooting possible. And the new laws The Trace and gun control advocates are calling for in response would do nothing to prevent another similar situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gun Control Industry and the Media Want New Laws in Maine That Would Have Done Nothing to Stop the Lewiston Shooting. Despite the\u00a0failures\u00a0that are being discovered that led to the Lewiston, Maine shooting, the Gun Control Industry is, as usual, pointing at the state\u2019s allegedly lax regulation of guns. Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun agitprop outlet … 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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97323","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=97323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97324,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97323\/revisions\/97324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}