Charleston Shooter The Latest In A Long Line Of Mass Murderers Who Passed Background Checks

By Bob Owens

Gun control supporters have constantly argued that “universal” background checks are the most important single element to stopping mass killings… despite the mountain of evidence proving their position to be categorically false.

The mass murderers at Virginia Tech, the Aurora Colorado movie theater, Fort Hood, Isla Vista, the Washington Navy Yard, the attempted mass killing at Arapahoe High School and indeed, the majority of other mass killers since 1993, purchased their firearms legally after passing background checks.

Perhaps even more tellingly, the murderer at the Washington Navy Yard purchased his weapon legally through a system that was “strengthened” after the massacre at Virgina Tech.

CNN is claiming this morning that the murderer who killed nine innocent people at Emanuel AME Zion Church in Charleston Wednesday night did so after buying his Glock .45 through a gun shop, passing a FBI NICS background check.

Dylann Roof has confessed to authorities to shooting and killing nine people this week at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, two law enforcement officials said Friday.

One of the officials said that Roof, who is white, told investigators that he wanted to start a race war.

He himself bought the .45-caliber handgun used in the shooting last April …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms