It occurred to me recently that the gunsense crowd know full well that the father of the recent Apalachee school shooter, who bought the gun his son used, passed his background check to purchase the gun.

They also know that criminals who buy guns illegally will never go through a background check.

Yet they insist that Universal Background Checks are the answer. That if only we would require them for all purchases of guns (and ammo and holsters and cleaning brushes), the world would be safe.

Why do they persist?

Because this is merely one step in their plan.

Consider:

One bright sunny day, the ebil NRA has some kind of stumble, and we get a Universal Background Check law.

There is dancing in the streets. Holidays are announced in California and Massachusetts. Children spend the day in the park, reading essays about the bright future ahead.

Yet over the next few months, there is no increase in the number of persons denied guns because of a background check. Legal sales of guns do not go down. Any.

Worse, another well-publicized shooting happens, done by someone who passed a background check.

Crime does not decline.

So, finally, the gunsense crowd admit, with stern faces, that they were wrong, that Universal Background Checks were not, in fact, the answer to all the world’s problems.

And they announce, instead, that since it is obvious that no one can be trusted, even with a clean background, that they will be announcing their plans to move forward and call for universal confiscation of all firearms.

“Turn them all in, Mr. and Mrs. America.”

 

Prove to me I’m wrong.