What The Trump Assassination Attempt PROVES About Gun Control

At this point, you’ve almost certainly heard about the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump which happened a week ago, at the time of this writing.

If you don’t know the details, Trump was golfing on one of his golf courses in Florida on Sunday, September 15, 2024, and when Secret Service saw the muzzle of a rifle pointed in Trump’s direction, they fired in the direction of the gun. The alleged would-be shooter fled the scene at that point and was arrested a short time later.

Now, anyone with any bit of decency in their body finds this whole situation disturbing. It was bad enough that one person tried to kill Trump in August, but a second assassination attempt on a presidential candidate? Horrible. You don’t have to agree with a person’s politics to know that trying to kill someone over a political disagreement is evil.

But there are details about the alleged shooter in this second assassination attempt that you probably haven’t heard, and they’re important details that people should know. Jack Phillips writes,

Agents investigating the course perimeter found a loaded SKS-style rifle chambered in 7.62mm x 39mm, equipped with a scope, and with a serial number that was “obliterated and unreadable to the naked eye.” During his initial court appearance on Monday, Routh, a felon, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Court papers filed in the case and the Thomas affidavit do not disclose how Routh obtained the SKS rifle, which is typically manufactured in China or the former Soviet Union, although other countries have produced them over the years.

Phillips continues:

Routh’s alleged possession of a firearm as a convicted felon could result in a 15-year prison sentence with certain sentencing enhancements, according to federal law and sentencing guidelines. Possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number carries a five-year prison term under federal statute.

That’s right, the alleged would-be assassin was a convicted felon who had a firearm with the serial number removed (not a ghost gun that doesn’t have or require a serial number). Both of these factors (being a felon and removing a serial number from a firearm) are things that existing gun laws prohibit.

So, how did he get a gun, much less a gun like that? Isn’t gun control supposed to prevent felons from getting guns and to prevent firearms from having serial numbers removed?

And that’s exactly why you probably haven’t heard these details about Routh. Because this situation proves, yet again, that gun control just doesn’t work.