{"id":35818,"date":"2013-05-26T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35818"},"modified":"2013-05-26T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:22:27","slug":"felon-tells-us-why-we-need-more-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35818","title":{"rendered":"Felon tells us why we need more gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Beast posts an article written by a convicted felon to influence the gun control debate. The NRA Is Wrong: The Myth of Illegal Guns<\/a> is written by Matthew Parker who by his own admission has been convicted of crimes ranging from “counterfeiting to felony-shoplifting to possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia”. He claims that because Adam Lanza, didn’t know his way around the underworld, he couldn’t have bought a gun illegally;<\/p>\n

My point is that purchasing firearms illegally should be an ordeal, and that effective background checks would be the first step in making it so. But what\u2019s also pertinent is that Lanza was not a shady character with a long criminal history, and so would have had no experience moving in illicit circles. Background checks may have forced him to do so\u2014to risk being arrested, robbed, or even killed in some dark alley for the substantial sum he\u2019d have needed in order to buy a gun illegally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, Lanza didn’t need background checks, he murdered the owner of the guns – his mother. When he tried to buy a gun legally, he was stymied by the waiting period. Apparently he couldn’t wait three days to kill those children. <\/p>\n

When pro-gun lobbyists insist that it\u2019s relatively easy for criminals to obtain firearms illegally they have the luxury of categorizing Lanza, Loughner, and Holmes as criminals because it is after the fact of their crimes. But if you examine the scenario before the fact it\u2019s plain to see that you\u2019re dealing with sick individuals whose criminal proclivities existed solely in their minds. Their first step in becoming criminals was getting their hands on guns and ammunition. Holmes and Loughner, in particular, were able to buy their weapons legally, passing the nominal background checks that currently exist with ease. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the author’s solution is that we should all take a two-hour psyche test that is given to prisoners. Sounds reasonable, right? Give law abiding citizens a test that those incarcerated take to determine their place in the penal system. Of course, prisoners have no reason to lie about the questions they answer because they’re already behind those walls. Doesn’t Parker think that sociopaths not in the prison system and aiming to buy a gun for their nefarious purposes wouldn’t lie?<\/p>\n

Of course, the larger question is; can anyone think of a real obvious reason a four-time loser would want to make it tougher for law abiding citizens to buy guns? The answer is fairly obvious to me – well, more obvious than it is to the editors of the Daily Beast, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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