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The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights, a set of rights expressly singled out by the Founding Fathers for special protection. They’re not the totality of rights possessed by the people, but they are expressly laid out as rights the government shouldn’t be messing with. Unfortunately, three Senate Democrats apparently didn’t get that memo .
Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut just re-introduced the “Federal Firearms Licensing Act,” which was previously introduced in 2019 but failed to go anywhere.
“The Federal Firearms Licensing Act would put in place a certification process that includes firearm safety training and a thorough criminal background and identity check requiring the licensee be 21 years of age,” Menendez said, according to a press release. “We have a moral obligation to prevent these senseless massacres in our schools, supermarkets, places of worship and shopping malls that are tearing communities and families apart.”
For his part, Cory Booker said that “This bill moves us in the right direction and is based on a simple concept—if you need a license to drive a car, you should need one to buy and possess a gun.”
Blumenthal added that the bill would “save lives.”
For many, this may not seem like a huge deal, but it is.
First of all, let’s look at whether a licensing law would actually stop mass shootings. That’s at least part of the claim being made, after all. In the wake of Buffalo, the idea of raising the age to 21 to buy a firearm may sound attractive.However, it should be noted that people who are interested in killing large numbers of people probably aren’t going to be deterred by the prospect of having to break a few rules. The most […]
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