Hillary, like a dog with a bone, won't let go of the gun control issue.

By Rob Janicki

Not surprisingly, if elected president, Hillary has stated she will continue to push for even more stringent gun controls at the federal level.  Apparently Hillary has forgotten about the assault weapons ban imposed by her husband that went nowhere in reducing assault weapons crimes, which were never high to begin with.  Lest we forget, the assault weapons ban had a sunset clause in it that eventually led to its termination with no discernible rise in assault weapons crime across America, which have historically been low by any standard.

Considering that a majority of Americans support an individual's right to own a firearm, Hillary's making gun control an election issue is a bit old school to say the least.  Frankly, I wouldn't care if she used it as the centerpiece of her presidential campaign.  The more Hillary talks about gun control the less time she has to push other potentially more rewarding issues, whatever those might be.

Pushing for gun control has clearly been demonstrated to be a failed political issue even in light of the several multiple terrorist shootings that have occurred across America in 2015.  Of course these highly pubic events are always used by liberals to push for increased gun control.  Such public massacres are like a fresh soup bone to a starving dog and liberals jump at every chance to twist the facts and use the individual tragedies for political purposes.

Now I don't mean to diminish the lives of those who have been murdered by terrorists, but, considering that the United States has a population of 322 million people, those deaths represent an infinitesimally small number of terrorist deaths caused by guns, let alone that the facts indicate that the guns used in these crimes were virtually all obtained legally in jurisdictions with relatively tough gun controls already in place.  If those deaths couldn't be stopped with the tough guns laws in place, then how can spreading these tough laws stop those who are determined to use guns in an illegal manner.  The answer is that they can't and won't.

Also considering that an estimated 300 million guns are already possessed by Americans, any further restrictions on gun acquisition and ownership will only impinge upon the rights of law abiding gun owners, or those wishing to acquire a firearm for self defense or the defense of their family, and make gun acquisition infinitely more difficult, while doing nothing to stop the already unlawful gun trade among criminals as they use the black market to sell their ill gotten guns through crimes of burglary and such.

The political paradox that Hillary and liberals, in general, have to overcome is that those states with the  most restrictive gun laws in the nation, also have the highest rate of gun related crimes, which makes further restrictive gun laws counter intuitive to anyone with an ounce of brains. 

Despite all the polling to the contrary on increased gun controls, liberals, Hillary included, have not given up on that issue by any means.  On December 29th, while at a campaign meeting, Hillary resuscitated the issue of gun control, yet again, while enunciating seven laws she would push to see enacted.  These proposed laws can be found here with excellent analysis by AWR Hawkins of Breitbart.