CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Gun Control Advocates Won’t Let Roanoke Journalists’ Murders Go To Waste”

Sep 1, 2015 | Featured

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John Lott’s newest piece at the Daily Caller starts off this way:

Within a few hours of the tragic shooting Wednesday that killed journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, politicians and gun control advocates were calling for more gun controlHillary ClintonVirginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, the White House, the Brady Campaign, and others claimed that the shooting showed the need for so-called “expanded background checks.”

Even the reporter’s grieving father, Andrew Parker, got drawn into the gun control debate. Mr. Parker told Megyn Kelly on Fox News on Wednesday: “My mission in life, and I talked to the governor [McAuliffe] today, he called me, I told him I am going to do something whatever it takes to get gun legislation, to shame people, to legislators, into doing something about closing loopholes in background checks.” McAuliffe apparently encouraged Parker to speak out on the issue.

But when reporters asked McAuliffe whether the killer was prohibited from legally buying a gun, he replied: “I don’t know anything.”  By late Wednesday night, it turned out that all their assumptions were wrong. Vester Lee Flanagan, the killer, had legally bought the gun from a registered firearms dealer. The so-called expanded background checks, which would have mandated background checks on private transfers, would have done nothing to stop this attack. Indeed, such expanded background checks would not have stopped any of the mass public shootings that President Obama has frequently pointed to in justifying such a law. . . .

The rest of the piece is available here.

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