By Bill Cawthon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-cawthon-08a229b/
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Second Amendment
A Reality Check for Background Checks
“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.
While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”
Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog
All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003
If they do, please let us know. At the moment, it doesn’t appear to be the case.
If background checks, or any gun control laws, for that matter, actually worked, it should be easy to find unbiased, un-massaged, and unfiltered supporting data. It would have certainly become evident in the surge of violence in 2020 and 2021.
Using a five-year period, we compared the 2017 homicide numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual fatal injury report for the states that had universal background check laws to the states that had constitutional (permitless) carry laws. We then looked at the same stats, but for 2021. On average, the constitutional carry states had smaller increases in their homicide rates and fewer additional deaths per state.
California was the first with a universal background check law. Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California’s Davis campus, did a study of the law’s effects in the first ten years it was in effect. His group found no impact on either homicide or suicide.
Gun control nuts might actually cut out their tongues rather than admitting it, but universal background checks can’t even be enforced without universal gun registration, which is not only a practical impossibility in the U.S. but also violates federal law.
Background checks might work in a land where the subjects ride their blue donkeys and mindlessly obey Big Brother’s dictates, but this land is not that land and we hope it never will be.