Terrorists are using the encrypted messaging app Telegram for crowdfunding guns.
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Such fears could be further fanned by the news that one of the shooters involved in the deadly San Bernardino killings on Wednesday pledged allegiance to ISIS during the crime.
What about mass shootings? Given that the perpetrators appear to have been a married Muslim couple, the hysteria factor will only be magnified.
The nation has been transfixed by coverage of the San Bernardino attacks. But one aspect of their case fits a pattern: In America, unsafe people find it very easy to get weapons. They’ve been illegal in this country since 1934.
Metzl added: “The pro-gun side will say, ‘look a mass shooting happened in a place like California or Colorado, where there are gun control laws.’ They generalize from this unpredictable event, to draw conclusions about the failure of gun control writ large”. We freak out first.
And while Ohio Gov. John Kasich said that the United States could “probably keep (no-fly list members) from getting guns and ought to ban them”, he’s opposed to using other terrorist watch lists in restricting gun purchases.
File image of President Barack Obama bowing his head in prayer during the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at the Ellipse in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. What might account for growing arms sales is that those gun owners are increasing their arsenals. Potential gun buyers that week numbered 953,600.
Gun ownership statistics tend to undercut widely held preconceptions.
This process played out Wednesday after 14 victims were gunned down in San Bernardino. The NRA, for instance, likes to give the example of a widow who is trying to sell her late husband’s guns after his death. Liberty University is in Virginia, and with the news of terrorist attacks by extremists targeting everything from workplaces to college campuses to Planned Parenthood locations, Falwell, Jr., told the crowd he had a gun in his back pocket.
There’s something more sinister going on here than can be fixed by closing a few holes in America’s already extensive gun laws.
That’s a sign of hope. The kind of Americans who want to take charge of their own defense would buy them. Demographics are another factor.
It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment.
“It is disappointing but not surprising that anti-gun Senators would try to exploit an apparent incident of radical Islamic terrorism to advance their political agenda”, Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation told Guns.com on Friday. That is what we need to be looking at. But that’s half a solution.
It is essentially the same strategy the gun prohibition lobby tried after Sandy Hook by calling for background checks on all gun sales when they knew the killer essentially stole the murder weapons from his mother.
Jenkins also said that Congress needs to address the mental health system and said he supports “the right of law abiding West Virginians to own firearms and am a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment”. The publication notes that gun stores all over the USA are reporting an uptick in gun sales from ME to Texas and points in between.
“As a result, many questions remain unanswered on the most effective ways to prevent gun violence”, the groups’ announcement states. But let’s be serious. Some states forbid.223-caliber rifles in deer hunting because they aren’t powerful enough to reliably take down the game.
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The same can be said about the San Bernardino shooters. Later, police found 4,500 rounds of ammo, a dozen pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that could have been used to make more bombs in their home. “They work most of the time”.
