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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Cory Booker’s Bogus Claim That Gun Licensing Reduces Crime

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has been beating the drum on gun licensing for a little while now. He basically wants to take New Jersey’s draconian gun control laws and apply them on a national level. Those he can get away with, anyway.

To advance his proposals, he’s making some claims that aren’t nearly as backed up as he’d like to believe.
Last night, at the first Democratic candidate debate for the 2020 campaign, Sen. Cory Booker (D–N.J.) proved my prophecy correct when he said, “If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to buy and own a firearm. And not everybody in this field agrees with that, but in states like Connecticut that did that, they saw 40 percent drops in gun violence and 15 percent drops in suicides.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The author has a point. I was drivinf by the time I was 12 and my brother was driving an old VW bug when he was 10 down the paths on our property.

Anonymous said...

And just how will a license stop anything? Laws do not stop crimes. A person with the right to carry a firearm will stop crime. Criminals prey on those who cannot defend themselves. You democrats are absolute idiots.