When Democrats Push For Universal Background Checks, The Danger Of A National Gun Registry Looms

John R. Lott, Jr. / Townhall Columnist

 

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Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Andrew Pollack.

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When it comes to gun control, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: criminals and psychopaths shouldn’t be allowed to get guns. The real question is how to stop them.

For Democrats, the answer is “universal background checks.” Their argument is that private sales, the so-called “gun-show loophole,” must be closed to keep would-be killers from getting their hands on firearms.

There’s just one problem with this prescription: it would not have stopped any of the mass shootings we have seen in this century.

Background checks have no chance of working unless criminals are arrested and prosecuted. If you seriously threaten someone’s life, you shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun. One of us, Andrew Pollack, saw the disconnect first-hand between the rhetoric of gun control and the reality of mass murder.

Iran’s Foreign Minister: If US retaliates for Saudi bombings, there will be “all-out war” with “a lot of casualties”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran shows, the Islamic Republic of Iran has wanted war with the United States for a very long time. They may be trying to bring it about now in order to topple Trump, who has stymied them with new sanctions: the American Left will be able to blame Trump […]
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Trump administration threatens to cut funding from university course for dishonest, pro-Islam discussion of Islam

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

The US Department of Education has ordered that the programme run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University revise their course plans by 22 September or risk losing future funding. This initiative should be rolled out nationwide. This “should not be funded or subsidized in any way by American taxpayers.” There is no education about Islam, only dawah (proselytizing). There is nothing talk about the 1,400 years of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements. Our children are woefully unprepared for what’s coming.

The Department also accuses the programme of having a “lack of balance” in its discussion of Islam, “while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East”.

Read entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2019/09/trump-calls-out-jihad-univeristies.html/

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