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The Patriot Post Digest 11-7-2017
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Darn those facts that undermine The Narrative™.
Fortunately, President Donald Trump, most Republicans and local lawmakers realize that guns aren’t the problem. As we have stated so many times before, guns are tools that can be used for good when in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Evil people can also use guns to carry out their malicious intentions. But when evil people use anything other than a gun, such as a truck29, a knife, or any other object, there’s hardly ever a leftist cry to ban such items.
Further, murdering someone is a crime.
Yet leftists have an agenda of statist control over everything — thus they cry out for stricter gun laws. In the case of Devin Kelley, the Texas perpetrator, there were already laws in place30 to prevent him from owning a firearm. But in this case, the laws and the system failed.
Kelley was an Air Force veteran court-martialed in 2012 for domestic violence against his then-wife and child. Kelley even intentionally fractured his infant stepson’s skull. He was sentenced to 12 months confinement and a reduction in rank, and he received a bad-conduct discharge. That discharge didn’t disqualify him from owning a firearm; his court-martial along with his domestic violence charge did.
Yet somehow Kelley purchased several firearms from a store in San Antonio. Whenever anyone purchases a firearm from a licensed gun dealer, the prospective customer completes a form including questions about prior convictions. Kelley fraudulently answered at least two questions. Once the form is filled out it is entered into the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which also includes the National Criminal Information Check (NCIC) database. If a person is flagged, no sale of a firearm can be legally made. Kelley should have been flagged and denied sale, but he was not.
How did this happen? Air Force officials reportedly failed31 to report Kelley’s domestic assault charge to the NCIC database, which under federal law it is required to do. In other words, human error enabled Kelley to purchase firearms.
Recall that a similar thing happened with the deranged racist who murdered nine people in Charleston two years ago. Human error in data entry left a hole in his background, too, with tragic results.
So there is already a system in place to prevent this kind of person from owning a firearm, but the bureaucratic process failed. The terrible fact is no such laws are going to prevent every evil guy bent on murder.
In any case, the fact remains that leftists’ call for more gun control is a losing argument32 and for the foreseeable future this will remain the case.
It’s estimated that there are more than 300 million guns owned by Americans. If guns were really the problem, there wouldn’t be many people remaining. Not that polling should ever dictate policy on constitutional rights, but the public has grown increasingly skeptical of gun control over the years, despite (or is it because of) Democrats’ increasingly shrill rhetoric.
The right to keep and bear arms is a natural right that most Americans cherish and don’t want to lose. Most leftists understand that an outright confiscation of firearms would spark a bloody resistance, so instead they seek to restrict in smaller increments the liberties of law-abiding citizens. But what part of “shall not be infringed” do they not understand?
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
‘Bombshell’ Climate Report, Part 5,743,86537 — Leftist holdovers are working overtime to demonize the Trump administration’s work.
Trump Is Already Leaving His Mark on the Courts38 — The president has tied Ronald Reagan for most appeals court positions filled in his first year.
Video: Why No One Trusts the Mainstream Media39 — Can the news be fixed? The answer is yes… but the first step to fixing a problem is admitting that we have one.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Rich Lowry: In Texas, Two Very American Heroes40
Tony Perkins: ‘We Know the Ending, and It’s Good’41
Paul Kengor: Birthday of a Bloodbath42
Stephen Moore: Why the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom43
Cal Thomas: With Teladoc, the Doctor Will See You Now … Really!44
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion45.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Rich Lowry: “No matter how tattered our civil society may be, it still produces people who will risk life and limb for others without hesitation, unbidden by anything other than their own sense of obligation. When Stephen Willeford, 55, heard of the [church] shooting, he left his house barefoot with his AR-15 and started exchanging fire with [the assailant] outside the church. An expert shot, Willeford hit [the assailant] and reportedly aimed for the gaps on his body armor. When [the assailant] got in an SUV and sped off, Willeford jumped in Johnnie Langendorff’s truck and told him to give chase. Langendorff, 27, didn’t ask any questions. He followed Kelley at 95 m.p.h. down the highway, until the perpetrator ran off the road. … Willeford and Langendorff would have been justified in considering their work done when the shooter left the scene of his massacre. They would have been justified in considering it done when he crashed his vehicle. They instead were prepared for another gunfight in the cause of incapacitating him themselves. … Any gun control measure that is sweeping enough to make a dent in the country’s gun stock and render gun ownership difficult enough to, at the margins, keep firearms out of the hands of psychopaths will inevitably affect law-abiding people as well. In places like rural Texas that would rightly be considered a serious imposition. Without a gun, if something goes wrong, the only option is sitting and waiting for the authorities to show up. And the likes of Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, obviously, aren’t the waiting kind.”
SHORT CUTS
Horrifying stat of the day: “An October 2016 poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation generated a stunning finding: almost one-third of Millennials ‘believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than under Joseph Stalin.’ And it isn’t only those silly Millennials. More than one in four Americans generally believe Bush was the bigger killer.” —Paul Kengor
For the record: “A key to the problem can be seen even in critiques of this Communist hagiography by conservatives, who remind everyone that Communism ‘doesn’t work.’ That seems a funny kind of understatement, like saying that dousing yourself with gasoline and setting yourself on fire ‘doesn’t work.’ It implies some kind of idealistic goal for which the adherents of Communism choose unrealistic means. But the bloody, grinding history of Communism — and most especially the fact that it went on and on and continues even today, many decades after no one can have any illusions — suggests that oppression and murder is the goal.” —Robert Tracinski
Upright: “If there is one lesson the communist century should have taught, it is that the independent authority of universal moral principles cannot be an afterthought, since it is the conviction on which all of civilization depends.” —David Satter
Braying Jenny: “Remember when Jesus of Nazareth came upon thousands of hungry people, and rather than feeding them, thought and prayed? And all those lepers he came upon, and rather than healing them, thought and prayed, and thought and prayed…? Such thinkers and prayers, these supposed inheritors of his faith have become. … It so happens that in the secular world we regulate things like guns through laws. And you can’t think or pray those up. Someone has to ACT.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid
Braying Jackass: “The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they’d still be alive, you worthless sack of sh-t.” —actor Wil Wheaton to House Speaker Paul Ryan
And last… “Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted, fell into the hands of the Taliban, and got multiple American soldiers killed because of their search for him, will get no jail time. Devon Kelley, the Texas shooter, beat up his wife, cracked his son’s skull, and got let out of military jail after a year. But the sailor who took pictures on a submarine is in jail for a year. Military justice does not seem very just.” —Erick Erickson
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