Posted May 24, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

It seems that gun control advocates have identified a few potential paths toward disarmament. While they may understand that the current landscape makes total disarmament unlikely, they’re still more than willing to worm their way along whatever paths they can identify.

For example, there’s an understanding that certain people shouldn’t be allowed to have guns. The population as a whole tends to agree that felons and those with serious mental illness are probably not the people who should be walking around with a firearm.

However, something like this makes it easy to accept the idea that there are people who should be barred from owning guns. Once that is accepted, you can expand that list.

That’s just what Oregon recently did.

Democrats in the Oregon Legislature pushed through a gun control bill Thursday after they sacrificed a more sweeping one – to the ire of student activists – in a deal with minority Republicans.

The bill senators passed 25-3 on Thursday is aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and stalkers.

Gov. Kate Brown told reporters earlier Thursday she looks forward to signing what she called “the domestic violence bill” that earlier passed the House.

“We have been able to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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