John Lott Calls Out Anti-Gunners Capitalizing On Aurora, Il Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Whenever there’s a mass shooting of any kind, anti-gunners are going to start using it to push for their pet gun control projects. Right now, a lot of people are using the shooting in Aurora, Illinois on Friday to justify things like universal background checks.

I’ve called them out on that degree of ridiculousness since the shooter had passed two background checks despite his felony conviction.

Now, none other than John Lott is doing the same thing:

On Friday, another mass public shooting occurred in yet another gun-free zone. In fact, the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, where five people were killed on Friday, clearly displays a “no guns” sign on its frontdoor.

This is part of a larger pattern. Ninety-eight percent of mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where people can‘t defend themselves.

But as usual, gun control advocates called for more background checks before the facts of the case were even known.

Twice, background checks failed to catch the criminal background of killer Gary Martin. Even worse, the errors that occurred in Illinois were a result of dramatic cuts in funding for background checks.

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Source:: Bearing Arms