Lott dismantles Tampon Tim's Anti-Gun Claims

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Lott dismantles Tampon Tim's Anti-Gun Claims Aug 14, 2024 15:13:09 GMT -6

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Post by Billy John Davy on Aug 14, 2024 15:13:09 GMT -6

Let's start with his claims regarding the CDC being prohibited from doing research.

“Ispent 25 years in the Army and I hunt,” Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., declared in 2018. “I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks, we can do CDC research, we can make sure that we don’t reciprocal carry among states. And we can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are allowed to be carried.” In just a few sentences, Walz made false claims about assault weapons, background checks, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) research, and reciprocal carry.

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The [Dickey] amendment allowed CDC-funded research but banned CDC advocacy. So, despite what gun-control advocates claim, research continued under the Dickey Amendment. Despite what Walz and other gun control backers say, neither the total number of papers nor pages devoted to firearms research decreased.

I've long argued that the Dickey Amendment never prohibited research and if the CDC figures that language did, in fact, mean they couldn't conduct gun research, then it meant it wasn't science but advocacy even in their own minds.

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Lott dismantles Tampon Tim's Anti-Gun Claims Aug 15, 2024 6:48:29 GMT -6

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Post by Billy John Davy on Aug 15, 2024 6:48:29 GMT -6

on 1 of the lefts big gun grabbing talking points; back ground checks.

As to background checks, the U.S. has required background checks on gun sales by all firearms dealers since 1994. What Walz wants is background checks on any private transfer of guns, even between relatives.

It allows the government to put together a national gun registry, and gun control activists push for registration to solve crime.

In theory, if criminals leave their registered guns at a crime scene, they can then be traced back to the perpetrator. But in real life, guns are virtually never left at the scene of a crime except when the gunmen have been seriously injured or killed.

In the few other cases guns are left at the crime, they aren’t registered or not registered to the person who committed the crime. Indeed, in states from Hawaii to New York, as well as countries such as Canada, where guns have been registered and licensed, police can’t point to any crimes these costly systems have been able to solve. Countries like Australia, Canada, and the U.K. use registration to ban and confiscate guns — and they aren’t alone. Places from California to Chicago to Washington, D.C., have also used registration to learn who legally owned different types of guns before banning them. Walz isn’t just lying about his military record. He has no problem lying to advance his gun control goals. For someone who frequently says he is a hunter, he knows the statements that he is making about “weapons of war” are a lie.

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Lott dismantles Tampon Tim's Anti-Gun Claims Aug 15, 2024 7:03:37 GMT -6

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Post by stargatebabe on Aug 15, 2024 7:03:37 GMT -6

Walz can whine about guns all he wants, same as any other politician!

I wonder how he would be taking more than 500,000,000 LEGAL guns from more than 89,000,000 people. As long as idiot politicians scream "Defund the police" people are going to buy guns to protect themselves!

ammo.com/articles/how-many-gun-owners-in-america

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