Top Dem Stops His Gun Grabbing Party In Its Tracks

Dems are once again trying their best not to waste a tragedy. So they are of course attacking guns again after the recent shooting in Colorado because it’s the spoon that makes us fat, not the person wielding it. But luckily Americans still have a semi-level-headed Dem in Office that is stopping Dems from passing strict Gun Control. Senator Manchin.

Manchin commented on Dems recent push for Gun Control.

“What the House passed? Not at all,” Manchin said when asked if he supports the legislation.

The House passed two bills this month: one to extend the window for completing a background check before a gun sale and a second that would extend background checks to all sales and transfers. However, the second bill provides exemptions including for transfers between family members, responding to an immediate threat, or temporary transfer for hunting.

Manchin, however, suggested he wanted a bill that provided a bigger carve-out for private sales between individuals who know each other.

“I come from a gun culture. I’m a law-abiding gun owner,” Manchin said, adding that he supports “basically saying that commercial transactions should be background checked. You don’t know a person.”

“If I know a person, no,” Manchin said.”

“Democrats have come out and pushed fringe ideas like gun bans to more modest, yet still problematic ideas, like universal background checks. Democrats seem uninterested in the fact that Colorado has universal background checks, which did not stop the tragedy from happening.

Leah Libresco, a former researcher at FiveThirtyEight, was a proponent of all the far-left gun control measures that Democrats champion — gun bans, restricting suppressors, limiting magazine sizes, among others — until she and her colleagues spent three months analyzing all the gun deaths in the U.S. per year.”

• “I researched the strictly tightened gun laws in Britain and Australia and concluded that they didn’t prove much about what America’s policy should be. Neither nation experienced drops in mass shootings or other gun related-crime that could be attributed to their buybacks and bans. Mass shootings were too rare in Australia for their absence after the buyback program to be clear evidence of progress. And in both Australia and Britain, the gun restrictions had an ambiguous effect on other gun-related crimes or deaths.”

 

• “As my co-workers and I kept looking at the data, it seemed less and less clear that one broad gun-control restriction could make a big difference. Two-thirds of gun deaths in the United States every year are suicides. Almost no proposed restriction would make it meaningfully harder for people with guns on hand to use them.”

But Dems don’t want to hear it. They don’t want to accept that guns are not the problem as they clearly want to disarm us. Gun Control only hurts lawful gun owners. It doesn’t stop criminals or deranged individuals looking to hurt people, from getting them.