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Duff McKagan: Ban AK-47s, Expand Background Checks, Don’t Believe the NRA
by AWR Hawkins 23 Nov 2016
Guns N’ Roses bassist
Duff McKagan says AK-47s should be banned, background checks should be
expanded, and the NRA’s concerns over certain politicians should not be
believed.
McKagan expounded
on his gun control positions in his inaugural column for Vice blog Noisey. The column focused on “things happening right now,”
with the stated goal of bringing “a bunch of us back to a place where we can
talk and hopefully—in a small way—start to make this country and world, a much
better place for us all.”
He described
himself as an “armchair historian,” opined on various subjects, then pushed gun control:
So let’s do some
tweaking. Background checks for all gun sales? Hell yes, right? What’s the
argument against that? Banning AK-47’s and the like? Probably a damn good idea,
right? Who needs them? I’m just a regular guy, neither “pro” nor “anti” gun…and
I understand and respect the right to bear arms, but do some of you actually
think we maintain this right still for the sole purpose of the “in case” of our
own government somehow taking over (as opposed to fighting off the English
imperialistic monarchy in 1775). This all seems as basic to me, as banning
sales of guns here for people who are on the no-fly list. Is there something I
am missing here?
Actually, there
are quite a few things McKagan is missing. First, Founding Father James Madison
made clear that the reason Americans own guns is to repel tyranny. He did this
in Federalist 46,
a document armchair historians ought to read. Secondly, the no-fly list is
notoriously inaccurate and is based on the accusation of a crime rather than a
conviction for a crime. So using the list violates due process rights of
Americans and opens the door to placing allegations on par with verdicts.
Third, background checks already exist and they do not stop latent criminals
from acquiring guns.
In fact, here is a list
of recent attackers and alleged attackers who acquired their guns via
background checks:
the New York
bombing suspect (September 19)
the Orlando
attacker (June 12)
the UCLA
gunman (June 1)
the San
Bernardino attackers (December 2, 2015)
the Colorado
Springs attacker (October 31, 2015)
the Umpqua
Community College attacker (October 1, 2015)
Alison Parker’s
attacker (August 26, 2015)
the Lafayette
movie theater attacker (July 23, 2015)
the Chattanooga
attacker (July 16, 2015)
the alleged
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal attacker (Jun 17, 2015)
the Muhammad
Carton Contest attackers (May 3, 2014)
the Las Vegas cop
killers (June 9, 2015)
the Santa Barbara
attacker (May 23, 2014)
the Fort Hood
attacker (April 2, 2014)
the Arapahoe High
School attacker (December 13, 2013)
the D.C. Navy
Yard attacker (September 16, 2013)
the Aurora movie
theater attacker (July 20, 2012)
Gabby Giffords’ attacker (January 8, 2011)
the Fort Hood
attacker (November 5, 2009)
the Virginia Tech
attacker (April 16, 2007), and many others.
Moreover, Paris
has expanded background checks and they also had 130 innocents gunned down on
November 13, 2015 and 12 gunned down on January 7, 2015.
But McKagan
wasn’t done. He also encouraged gun owners to “ignore” emails from the NRA and
said it is not realistic to believe politicians can actually take away guns:
If you are a gun
owner in this country and you actually think somebody is gonna come to
your house and take your gun away…uh….maybe you shouldn’t be a gun owner (just
my two cents). Educate yourselves on the Amendments and the Constitution to
which they were added. An actual repeal of an Amendment would have to pass thru
two-thirds of both Legislative bodies, and then have be ratified by two-thirds
of the 50 states. It’ll never be repealed simply because there is NO WAY 38
states will vote against guns.
When you read
McKagan’s argument which attempts to show politicians cannot take away guns,
keep in mind that it is part of the same article in which he supports
politicians banning whole categories of guns–“AK-47s and the like.”
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intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the
attorney general at the U.S. Department
of Justice for the Barack Obama
administration.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Morehouse
School of Medicine is a medical school at Morehouse College.
Otis Moss III is a
trustee at Morehouse College, and a
pastor at the Trinity United Church of
Christ (Chicago).
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, and is the acting
head for the Nation of Islam.
Common
is a Trinity United Church of Christ
(Chicago) parishioner, a performer in the Yes We Can video, and a Geffen
Records artist.
Guns N' Roses is
a Geffen Records artist.
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Gun Control) is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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