It never ceases to fascinate me how people can convince themselves that something that clearly does not work will somehow, magically, work. You meet people like that everyday, oblivious to the obvious paradox in that belief of theirs.
And some of the worst “offenders” in that regard are advocates for gun control.
Now, for the sake of argument, temporarily set aside the fact that the Second Amendment is enough to make all gun control illegal. For today’s discussion, let’s stay focused on the fact that gun control simply doesn’t work.
Background checks are a perfect example. Gun control advocates seem to think that background checks will keep would-be shooters from being able to get firearms.
Sure, if background checks actually did this, then they might actually save lives.
But background checks don’t do that. Why? Because human beings are involved, and when people are involved, they can and will find ways to “conveniently” get around laws that they don’t want to follow.
Take the recent shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia as an example of this. Jacki Thrapp writes,
A man accused of selling a gun to the perpetrator of an attack at Old Dominion University was arrested on March 13.
Kenya Chapman was charged on Friday with making a false statement during a firearm purchase and engaging in the business of firearms dealing without a license, according to the Department of Justice.
Chapman was accused of selling the gun to shooter Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who used it to open fire inside of a classroom at the Virginia school on Thursday, killing ROTC instructor Lt. Col. Brandon Shah and injuring two others.
The salesman told police he didn’t think Jalloh was going to commit an attack.Chapman allegedly confirmed he knew that Jalloh spent time behind bars but denied knowing that the shooter, a former Army National Guard member, wasn’t allowed to have a gun due to a previous felony conviction for attempting to aid the ISIS terrorist group.
Before Thursday’s shooting, Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years in prison for trying to aid ISIS, but was released in December 2024.
Now, the background check system was supposed to have stopped this kind of thing from happening. The system should have kept Jalloh from being able to get a firearm.
But it didn’t. Because these types of efforts to prevent gun sales are never followed 100% perfectly by all people.
If you need another situation from history highlighting the public’s desire to get around a law and doing so, just think back to Prohibition. It failed, just like gun control always fails.
In fact, the only people that gun control successfully disarms are people that were never a threat in the first place, and that’s why we must oppose all gun control efforts.
