From what we know about the shooting at Old Dominion University, it’s a testament to the futility of gun control at its most basic level. Numerous gun control laws were broken before the first shot was ever fired, and still, anti-gunners think it’s an example of why we need more regulations.
That’s not really surprising, of course. There’s no tragedy they can’t spin to make it about gun control.
However, sometimes, they have to reach so far that it’s a sign of mental deficiencies.
Like, say, thinking it justifies universal background checks.
Federal charges filed against a Virginia man accused of illegally selling the gun used in a recent shooting at Old Dominion University are intensifying scrutiny of the state’s now-defunct universal background check law — and raising new questions about whether the violence could have been prevented.
The case comes as Virginia’s background check requirement for most private firearm sales remains invalidated following an October ruling by a Lynchburg-area circuit court, a decision that still stands after an appellate court declined to revive the law.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who sought to intervene after then-Attorney General Jason Miyares did not defend the statute, said the consequences of that decision were significant.
“My predecessor had a choice: defend Virginia’s background check law and protect our communities, or stand aside. He stood aside and put lives at risk. I fought to intervene and appeal because background checks save lives and closing the private seller loophole keeps guns out of dangerous hands,” Jones said in an email Friday.
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“That’s the very thing that the law was intended to stop from happening,” said Lori Haas, advocacy manager for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, in a phone interview Friday.
“People who are prohibited from purchasing a firearm, by law, we need to make certain that they can’t buy firearms. Because look at what happened. Somebody who was prohibited by law got their hands on a firearm and caused harm and devastation to another university community.”
Now, keep in mind that the guy who sold the killer his gun was someone who had already violated federal gun control laws once, who apparently possessed the gun he sold illegally, and then sold it to a convicted felon.
What in the world makes anyone think that he would have followed a universal background check law? What makes them think a terrorist wouldn’t just find someone else to sell him a gun in the first place?
The idiocy of universal background checks is that they’re predicated on people following the law, even though we know that criminals don’t. They don’t buy guns from private individuals trying to sell their own firearms lawfully, generally speaking. While that happens occasionally, it’s not as common as some would have you think.
Instead, they either steal them or buy one via a black market sale. Those were generally obtained illegally, either through a straw buy or someone else’s theft of the firearm.
This inane idea that a universal background check law would have actually had any impact on what happened is a level of stupidity that would necessitate rides on short buses and the wearing of a helmet at all times to keep the people sharing this idea from hurting themselves.
There might be a time when the argument for universal background checks won’t be so obviously moronic, but it is not this day, that’s for damn sure.
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