The Guardian: Background Check Laws Fail in CO, WA
Because Citizens Will Not Comply
by AWR Hawkins 13 Oct 2017
On October 13 the Guardian
reported that background check laws in Colorado and Washington state
have proven a failure because citizens simply will not comply with them.
This means that after millions upon millions spent,
political offices lost, and promises of a Utopian world with less gun crime
made, the checks have been a bust.
According to The Guardian, the failure of these background
check laws was discovered via research by Injury Prevention and it “is a
setback for a growing gun control movement that has centered its national
strategy on precisely the kind of state laws passed in Colorado and
Washington.”
Guns have been sold privately in American since 1791–the
year the Second Amendment was ratified. The push to mandate citizens undergo a
background check for private gun sales is a Johnny-come-lately in American
history, inasmuch as it began in the 1990s (and has made very little progress
since). The adoption of universal backgrounds in Colorado in 2013 and
Washington state in 2014 was met with great fanfare from the left; progress had
finally been achieved.
But not really.
The Guardian:
Opponents of the new laws in both Colorado and Washington
had proudly advertised their noncompliance with the new regulations. In
Washington, Wintemute and his co-authors noted, more than 1,000 gun rights
supporters held an “I will not comply” demonstration at the state capitol where
they reportedly flouted the newly passed law in public by transferring firearms
to each other in full view of law enforcement. In Colorado, some sheriffs in
more conservative rural areas reportedly said they would not enforce the new
gun control law, and others that enforcement would simply be “a very low
priority.”
Notice, the citizenry and law enforcement alike expressed
little desire to comply with laws, which have now proven a waste of time.
The failure of these laws actually goes to the fact that
universal background checks are unenforceable without a gun
registry, and neither Colorado nor Washington state enacted such a
registry. This is not lost on the researchers who studied the failure of gun control in Colorado and Washington state.
For example, Garen Wintemute, one of the Injury
Prevention study’s authors, said the failures in Colorado and Washington state
does not mean universal background checks are “no good.” Rather, it means
“these policies may need more assertive enforcement.”
Let’s connect the dots:
The Guardian
Sidney
Blumenthal was a columnist for the Guardian,
a consultant for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a consultant for the American Bridge 21st Century, is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s friend & confidant, and a consultant
for the Media Matters for America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st Century, the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Media
Matters for America, ProPublica,
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
the Harlem Children's Zone.
Jill Abramson is
an advisory board member for ProPublica,
and a columnist for the Guardian.
David
Gergen is an advisory board member for ProPublica,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and Doctors Without
Borders.
Marsha
Garces Williams was a U.S. advisory board member for the Doctors Without Borders, and is an
advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education.
Bill Hornbuckle
is an advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education, and the president & COO for the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Mass Shooting Outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay; 50+ Dead,
406 Sent to Hospital (PAST RESEARCH)
Monday, October 2, 2017
Michael R. Bloomberg
is the founder of the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, the founder of the Independence
USA PAC, a co-chair for the Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, a co-chair for the Risky Business Project, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a
contributor for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Independence
USA PAC is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Gabrielle
Giffords is a co-founder for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, and an
advisory board member for the Truman
National Security Project.
Madeleine K.
Albright is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, an advisory board member for the
Truman National Security Project,
and a director at the Center for
American Progress.
Center
for American Progress calls
for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control” for guns.
Thomas F. Steyer
is a director at the Center for American
Progress, a co-chair for the Risky
Business Project, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Bloomberg
Philanthropies is a partner with the Risky
Business Project, and an umbrella organization for the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and Doctors Without Borders.
Marsha
Garces Williams was a U.S. advisory board member for the Doctors Without Borders, and is an
advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education.
Bill Hornbuckle
is an advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education, and the president & COO for the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Mass Shooting Outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay; 50+ Dead,
406 Sent to Hospital (PAST RESEARCH)
Monday, October 2, 2017
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