Gun Control Mind Games

By Ammoland

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Gun control advocates would have you believe that, if only there were background check requirements for all gun sales and transfers and if only the so-called “private sale loophole” was repealed, criminals would no longer be able to obtain guns online or at gun shows without a background check.

Then, they’d have you believe, we’d see an end to the proliferation of guns and “gun violence.”

Backers of the Bloomberg-funded background check initiative in Nevada, for example, argue that the initiative law is necessary because “criminals must be prevented from acquiring guns in simple ‘no questions asked’ transactions.”

Psychologists and anthropologists describe the illogical and emotional attribution of a causal connection between events or things, despite a lack of empirical evidence, as “magical thinking.”

Magical thinking presumes a meaningful relationship between actions and events where there is not much more than coincidence in play – like acing a job interview while wearing “lucky” underwear.

Such flawed reasoning of a “now you see it, now you don’t” relationship between “universal background check” laws and criminals’ access to firearms …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand