How Anti-Gun Proposals Pushed One Person Away From The Anti-Gun Movement

By Tom Knighton

Earlier this week, we shared the story of a writer whose work lead her to discover that gun control doesn’t really work. The statistics just don’t lie, and she found that absolutely none of what the anti-gun crusaders were saying would work, actually would.

However, she wasn’t the only one to be pushed away by reality. This time we have someone who got pushed away by the nonsensical efforts by the anti-gun forces following mass shootings. Particularly when they would have impacted him.

The Las Vegas attack that took the lives of 59 people and wounded hundreds of others immediately spurred another round of liberals calling for gun control. As a Muslim American who has been staunchly liberal most my life, I agreed with them after most mass shootings.

But this time, I find myself on the other side of the aisle.

Only 16 months ago after the tragic shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, congressional Democrats staged a sit-in to demand that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan call for a vote on gun control. More specifically, Democrats wanted to ban gun sales to those who were on the no-fly list.

My major problem with that kind of legislation? …Read the Rest

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