Time for a History Lesson about 'Gun Control'
By Stephen P. Halbrook . June 22nd, 2018
Also published in TownHall.com
Advocates of "commonsense gun safety" measures have been promoting two major objectives. One is universal background checks, about which the National Institute of Justice wrote, "effectiveness depends on . . . requiring gun registration." Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) just introduced a bill in Congress that would do just that -- create a national registry of all firearm owners.
The other objective is a ban on "assault weapons," which have been defined in contradictory, bizarre, ways. The American Medical Association has just reaffirmed its endorsement of such a ban, including the confiscation of all such firearms from Americans at large.
Why hasn't Congress adopted these proposals?
Perhaps commonsense does matter. Most guns are sold by licensed dealers, who are required to clear every sale through the National Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Congress recently passed the Fix NICS bill because governmental units were often not reporting criminal records to NICS. That's why the Texas church shooter was able to buy a rifle. His massacre was ended only by a citizen who shot him with an AR-15.
It is doubtful that background checks for occasional private sales between law-abiding citizens would prevent any crimes. Don't hold your breath waiting for criminals to do background checks on each other.
Similarly, the Parkland school shooting had nothing to do with the ability of law-abiding citizens to own semiautomatic firearms.
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"Maybe it's time to pursue real solutions to criminal violence and forget about a war on law-abiding gun owners." This in a nut shell is the crux of the matter, but 'they' still seek to disarm the law abiding citizen, with little or no impact likely on criminals and guns.
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