Congratulations, Virginia, you’re about to elect Terry McAullife as your governor. He’s stumping through Virginia today with Bill Clinton, you know the guy who McAuliffe loaned a couple of million bucks so Clinton could buy a house in New York State and then his wife could run for the Senate. Here in the DC area, we’ve been inundated with McAullife ads, mostly about how his opponent is against abortions, but lately, the McAullife campaign got a load of Bloomberg bucks from the anti-gun nut who is running New York City into nanny-statism.<\/p>\n
The funny thing is; you can’t find McAullife’s anti-gun anywhere on the internet – I even looked on his website and it’s not there. Isn’t that a little bit strange? Politico writes a little about the ad;<\/p>\n
With imagery of the gunmen in three recent shooting sprees, including the one at Virginia Tech, the ad\u2019s narrator says, \u201cThe gun show loophole. It means anyone can buy a gun without a background check. The dangerously mentally ill. Criminals. Endangering our families.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, while those words are being read pictures of the Virginia tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, the Aurora Colorado shooter, James Eagan Holmes and the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza are flashed on the screen. And the words themselves are a lie. There is no real gun show loophole – I’ve bought two guns at gun shows and both times I went through the same background checks that went through when I bought guns at dealers’ stores. So I don’t know what a “gun show loophole” is, unless they mean the same loophole that allows people to sell guns at their yard sale.<\/p>\n
As we’ve stated before<\/a>, even the Bureau of Justice Statistics admits that less than two percent of criminals were arrested with guns they bought at gun shows or flea markets. And none of the three in the ads bought guns at gun shows.<\/p>\n
And Republicans and the NRA want to limit gun sales to “the dangerously mentally ill”, but it’s liberals, like Terry McAullife, who won’t let “the dangerously mentally ill” be included on the national ID check system.<\/p>\n