Pirate's Cove

He’s right

(Breitbart) While speaking to reporters Sunday morning President Trump said stronger background checks would not have stopped the mass public attacks our nation has witnessed over the past six or seven years.

Trump said, “I will say that for the most part, sadly if you look at the last four or five going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it.”

He made these comments the day after a man in the Midland-Odessa region of Texas drove around shooting people while sitting inside his vehicle. (snip)

NBC reports Trump saying the shooting incidents in the Midland-Odessa area do not change discussions about guns. Trump said, “We are in the process of dealing with Democrats and Republicans, and there’s a big package of things that’s going to be put before them by a lot of different people I’ve been speaking to a lot of senators, a lot of house members, Republicans, Democrats — this really hasn’t changed anything, we’re doing a package and we’ll see how it comes about.”

What the gun grabbers have been pushing are background checks being required for all purchases except transfers between family. This would include the very few that are private sales. Most purchases are made from a lawful gun shop, which do background checks. So, how will this help? The Democrats policies require gun registration. What would this stop? If the person is able to pass a background check, as it seems most of these nutjobs have done, what would that stop?

What needs to be done is make it easier for law enforcement to report information to the NCIS system, to be able to get the information into the system quicker, and to be able to verify the information quicker, so that the system is not abused. But, would that stop anything? We know almost nothing about the Texas nutter, except that he was fired from his job hours before, reportedly. So, if there were no red flags, how do you stop this?

Of course, the gun grabbers have ideas: grab bugs. They want to, of course, ban all assault rifles. Many are calling for banning those which are owned now. Former executive editor of the NY Times Howell Raines wants to revert to the laws of the 1960’s, and seems to be pushing the notion that only revolvers would be allowed, along with hunting rifles. You can do the same with a hunting rifle as an “AR-15”, as the gun grabbers call every rifle.

We don’t have more “crazy “ or “mentally unstable “ people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings with automatic and semi-automatic high powered firearms. THAT cannot be disputed. Tell me what we and our government must do. Prayers and sympathy are not enough. pic.twitter.com/KpWZa0xJcY

— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) September 1, 2019

If you’re going on a rampage, you’re crazy. That tweet is viral, and featured at The Hill. It’s a shame he doesn’t offer policy proposals. But, those in the comments are advocating for bans and confiscation. As are plenty of Democrat politicians.