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Subject: CCRKBA Blasts VA Gov. Kaine for Using Virginia Tech Crime to Attack
Gun Shows
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:28:38 -0800
CCRKBA Alerts
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RELEASECCRKBA BLASTS VA GOV. KAINE FOR USING VIRGINIA TECH CRIME TO ATTACK GUN
SHOWSBELLEVUE, WA Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has fallen back on one of the
oldest, and most shoddy, tactics in the gun grabber playbook by using the
Virginia Tech tragedy to launch an attack on gun shows, when the crime had
nothing to do with gun shows, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms said today.
Neither of the guns used by Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was purchased
at a gun show, noted CCRKBA Legislative Liaison Joe Waldron.
Attacking some mythical gun show loophole will do nothing to prevent
criminals from getting their hands on guns illegally, because it has been shown
statistically that criminals rarely get firearms at such shows.
Waldron was alluding to a study done for the Department of Justice that found
less than one percent (0.7 %) of criminals imprisoned for using guns in crimes
got their firearms from gun shows. The overwhelming majority get firearms from
family, associates or on the street. However, Gov, Kaine wants to require
background checks on all firearms transactions at gun shows, including private
sales that are exempt under current federal statute.
Virginia Tech was a tragedy of monstrous proportions, said CCRKBA Chairman
Alan Gottlieb, but there was absolutely no connection with gun shows. Cho
purchased both of the guns he used from a federally licensed retail gun shop,
he successfully passed a mandatory
background check.
Gov. Kaine already took action by ordering the State Police in Virginia to
deny firearm purchases to people like Cho, who had been ordered by a court to
seek outpatient mental health treatment, Gottlieb recalled. It is
disappointing, to say the very least, that the governor has grabbed a cheap
headline by suggesting, even remotely, that adding restrictive regulations to
gun show operations will somehow keep people like Cho from obtaining a firearm
and committing a crime.
We agree with Republican State Del. William R. Janis, who said this new
proposal by Gov. Kaine is a largely meaningless gesture, Gottlieb said. But
thats the nature of most gun control schemes. They are empty gestures aimed
more at demonizing guns and honest gun owners than they are at preventing or
solving actual crimes, and extremist gun control advocates know it.
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