Lies repeated often enough
Seems the passage of the Tiahrt amendment (which always passes) has the gun control folks and editorial boards (but I repeat myself) up in arms.
Gun lobby wins again
It hardly matters that it’s the Democrats who now ostensibly control Congress. On the critical matter of fighting gun crime, it’s still the gun lobby that prevails. The National Rifle Association in particular still controls enough votes, on both sides of the aisle, to stop local governments from making even modest progress in their quest to reduce gun violence.
Really, now, what sensible person would resist legislation that would give local governments and police agencies access to data tracking gun sales? Why can’t they know where guns used in the commission of crimes came from?
You’re a liar. There is no prevention of access to data on tracking gun sales so long as said trace is related to a particular gun crime. The bill prohibits snooping through the data. Don’t take my word for it, though. Take the word of those sensible people at the Fraternal Order of Police and those sensible people at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who think restricting the access to the data is a good idea.
Guns first, police second
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has voted to renew the Tiahrt Amendment, which limits local police access to a federal database of gun purchases.
That’s how the cookie crumbles for anyone cheeky enough to challenge the gun lobby.
Note the evil gun lobby theme continues.
Yet, gun traces still work:
The shell casings had barely cooled on a Brooklyn street when federal agents began trying to unwrap a mystery: How did three pistols get in the hands of the men who gunned down two police officers?
At the time, the agents had little to go on. The shooters were still on the loose.
Yet within hours, agents learned that the guns were originally sold by three shops in southern states. Powerful computer databases told them more. Two of the guns were several years old, meaning they had probably changed hands several times. Another was nearly new.
How could that be? Editorial boards are telling me that can’t happen. I. Am. Shocked.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:38 am
[…] tip at Uncle, who along with me is feeling like we almost have to go broken-record-ish to get the point across that Tiahrt does NOT PREVENT […]
July 19th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
— In other word(s), it is “unpossible”?