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Consider all violence
So, Shawn Vestal has found the source of crime in Chicago: it’s Idaho.
Yes, in Idaho, where a business has lawful authority to sell a firearm, and an individual has the legal right to buy that firearm, including passing the required background check. Is it the fault of the seller that the buyer breaks the law? If so, why aren’t grocery stores in trouble for selling alcohol legally to someone who passes it on to a minor? For some reason gun control advocates just don’t understand that criminals don’t obey the law.
But rather than pick on Chicago, let’s go to gun controllers’ model city, London. Jolly old England, where guns are so outlawed they needed special permission to have the shooting contest in the Olympics. Yes, London, the gun-free city which, for the first time in history, has more murders then New York City. How could this be? Knives.
One thing a gun control person never does is include all violence, they only talk about gun violence. Get rid of guns, no violence, except in London … How soon until knife safes, register your Gerber, or Buck? Are knives dangerous? Ask London, or Santa Barbara, or Boise. Slippery slope.
Steven Stuart
Spokane