President Obama is at it again, charging that if we could just extend “background checks” to all firearms sales, the world would be a safer place. Terrorists, armed robbers and paranoid schizophrenics bent on mass murder would be turned away by potential gun vendors and would thus be unarmed and presumably, therefore, unable to do harm to the rest of us. This has been a major part of the gun control mantra for some time in spite of numerous studies and common sense that tell us criminals don’t buy their guns at Wal-Mart or at gun shows, and that the mentally deranged have thus far managed to buy firearms legally in jurisdictions that already require stringent background checks.
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