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The Vultures of Gun Control

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As we all know, tragedy hit yesterday as a former sailor/DOD contractor named Aaron Alexis entered the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, and started shooting, killing 13 people and wounding many others. Before the brass was even cool, gun control advocates such as Senator Dianne Feinstein and Shannon Watts of the group “Moms Demand Action” were calling for gun control and throwing blame at gun rights groups and gun owners. Never let a crisis go to waste, right?

But lets look at the facts. Would more gun control have prevented this? Clearly the answer is no.

- Aaron Alexis was a DOD contractor who held a security clearance. You could say he’d already had a stringent background check, so the idea that background checks would prevent him from buying a gun is ludicrous, at best.

-Alexis violated numerous gun control laws in one of the strictest gun control cities in the nation. In Washington, DC it is illegal to own a gun unless you are a resident with a permit. It is illegal for anyone to carry a personal firearm in the city. AR – 15s and magazines over 10 rounds, banned. Not to mention it’s illegal to carry a personal firearm on a military base.

These gun control laws that failed to prevent this are exactly what gun control advocates call for. Yet, they failed.

Furthermore, Alexis started off with a shotgun, then obtained a pistol or two from security as the shooting went on. How do you legislate that from happening?

Nobody is denying this is a tragedy and I weep for the victims and their families, but this idea that more gun control laws would prevent it is completely asinine, as I’ve clearly shown above.

Most sickening of all are the vultures of gun control that feed on the dead to fuel their anti-gun agenda, once again before the bodies were even cold. I find that sickening, shameful, disgusting and downright pathetic. Senator Feinstein and Shannon Watts should be ashamed of themselves, but they’re not.

Remember this behavior in the coming days, as these people push for legislation exactly like DC’s, and remember how despite the existence of such legislation, this tragic event still happened.