San Quentin Inmates Undermine Gun Control Arguments

By Tom Knighton

Gun control is always sold to the American public as a necessary step to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people. Time and time again, we’re told that we need to give up our rights to free access to arms because someone else is breaking the law with a firearm. We’ve permitted laws that keep convicted felons from owning guns. We’ve put up with mandatory background checks when we buy guns from stores. We’ve put up with all of it.

Yet, no matter how much we put up with, gun control activists always want more. The thing is, we know gun laws don’t dissuade criminals.

How do we know this? They tell us how they get their guns.

Behind the historic walls of San Quentin are scores of men who wrote their life stories by committing acts of violence. Most of them used a gun.

While the debate over gun control rages outside the walls of the famed prison, inside those convicted of violent acts including murder freely voiced their opinion on how easy it was to get a weapon.

Rahsaan Thomas was convicted of second-degree murder at the age of 29. He got his gun illegally on the …Read the Rest

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