Why Should Republicans Get Upset at Obama’s Call for Expanded Background Checks?
January 5, 2016
Obama is taking executive action to expand background checks for gun purchases. But why should Republicans get so upset about it? Republicans believe in background checks. They fully support the National Instant Criminal Background Check System mandated by the Brady Bill of 1993 and launched by the FBI in 1998, as I pointed out a few years ago in “Republicans Just Don’t Get It on Gun Control.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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