An article in the Federalist outlined 12 Mass Shootings that Background checks wouldn’t have stopped.
Federalist:
Demands for more gun control always seem to follow mass shootings. It makes sense that we want to do something—these mass shootings are horrific, and we should do what we can to stop them. However, universal background checks will not end mass shootings or gun violence.
For example, universal background checks would not have stopped the deadliest mass shootings following the enactment of federal background check requirements in 1994:
Las Vegas 2017:Â Shooter purchased his firearms from a gun dealer (where background checks are already required).
Orlando 2016:Â Shooter purchased his firearms from a gun dealer.
Virginia Tech 2007:Â Shooter purchased his firearms from a gun dealer.
Sandy Hook 2012:Â Shooter stole his firearms.
Sutherland Springs 2017:Â Shooter purchased his firearm from a gun dealer. He had a criminal record and the background check system failed to stop him (the same system that would be used for private transfers).
Parkland 2018:Â Shooter purchased firearm from a gun dealer.
San Bernardino 2017: Shooters’ firearms were “straw-purchased†by someone else.
Fort Hood 2009:Â Shooter purchased firearm from a gun dealer.
Columbine 1999: Shooters’ guns were straw-purchased for them by someone else.
Thousand Oaks 2018:Â Shooter purchased firearm legally with a background check.
Navy Yard 2013:Â Shooter purchased firearm from a gun dealer.
Aurora 2012:Â Shooter purchased firearms from a gun dealer.
Notice something about all of these shootings. After each one, they claimed that more Gun Control would have stopped them. However, Gun Control didn’t.
The left’s tactic is brick by brick. They don’t care if it will actually solve the Mass Shooting problem they just want your guns.
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