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发帖数: 29846 | 1 February 18, 2013
by Warner Todd Huston
One of the main discussions in this ginned up, fact-free anti-gun debate
coming from the Democrats and their fellow extreme leftists is that they
want “universal background checks” for gun purchases. So, “background
checks” are a good idea to left-wingers… but in all cases? As it happens,
NO is the answer to that. Democrats don’t want universal background checks
in all cases.
Jams Bovard shows us this fact quite clearly in his recent Wall Street
Journal piece headlined, “Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril.”
Now, Bovard isn’t talking about the gun debate with his piece. In fact, he
never mentions guns even one time. Bovard, you see, is talking about
background checks as a condition for employment.
As it happens, Democrats and the Obama administration are attempting to
eliminate background checks for prospective employees claiming it is a “
civil rights” issue.
The specific case concerns a man of Mexican origin who was denied employment
as a truck driver because he had a criminal record. The record was
discovered via a routine background check. Obama and his department of
injustice claimed that the trucking company had no right to deny employment
to the criminal saying it violated his “civil rights.”
Worse, the Obama administration essentially announced through the release of
a set of new “guidelines” that the federal government will try to
prosecute employers even if they are following state laws.
As far as Obama is concerned, no matter what the people want through laws
written by their duly elected state officials, no background checks will be
allowed.
So, what does this have to do with background checks for gun purchases?
Simply this: it is hypocritical for Obama and his extremist, left-wing
comrades to claim that background checks on potential employees assumes a
criminal past of these potential employees and should not, therefore, be
allowed yet support background checks for potential gun buyers based on the
same, exact principle.
If background checks violate a person’s civil liberties in order to gain
employment, then background checks also violate a person’s civil liberties
in order to enjoy their Constitutional rights.
After all, the right to a job is not in the Constitution, but the right to a
firearm is. | l******t
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