Tammy Baldwin Thinks Middleton Shooting Proves Need For More Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

More and more of the time, we on the pro-gun side of things look at mass shootings and after we process the loss, start to look at just how the anti-gunners will try and spin this to justify more restrictions of our civil liberties. For example, after Las Vegas, bump stocks became the targets. After Parkland, we saw renewed calls for an assault weapon ban. We’re still reeling from the loss of life, but have to also go on the defensive against anti-gun jihadists who want to take away or restrict our rights.

It’s exhausting, but it’s also consistent. It will happen.

And, right on cue, we have Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin doing just that.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says the shooting at a Middleton software company shows the need for gun control measures that are “consistent with the Second Amendment.”

Baldwin said at a news conference Thursday that she supports universal background checks and banning rapid-fire “bump stock” devices. The push in Congress to ban bump stocks came after one was used in the Las Vegas shooting last year that was the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killing 58.

Authorities have not indicated that such a device was used in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms