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Here they go again

Senator Weasel Dick AKA Harry Reid is pimping the Ft. Hood shootings to push for, wait for it…. background checks

Via Roll Call:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Wednesday shooting at Fort Hood made him wish that Congress would pass expanded background checks for gun purchases.
“As I was told today, this young man bought this gun a day or two before he killed these people,” Reid said. “Couldn’t we at least have background checks so that people who are ill mentally or felons shouldn’t be able to buy a gun? Even [National Rifle Association] members, the majority of them, support that.”

Of course, we already HAVE background checks, we have for twenty plus years now, and Reid knows this. Any new law he proposes would be assured of doing two things. First, it would do nothing to stop mass shootings. Two, it would be a tool to implement more gun control on the law abiding. If Reid actually wanted to do something that would help prevent another shooting on a military base, he would call for lifting the ban soldiers having guns on bases. Ed has more on that

From TDG: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/