Pro-terrorist marches and the massacre of Israelis should end the gun control debate
Zachary Faria
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The Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians that has left over 900 people dead will have many knock-on effects. One of them should be the end of the gun control debate in the United States.
Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett was one of the first to observe this, and he is exactly right. Israeli civilians were vulnerable and unable to protect themselves from the coordinated Hamas attack that saw terrorists rape, kidnap, and murder hundreds who had no means of defending themselves. Entire towns were decimated before armed Israeli forces could jump into the action.
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“That would never happen here,” you may say to yourself. It is often difficult to fathom that level of evil. Even Israel wasn’t prepared for it, and it has been under direct threat from Palestinian terrorists and other enemies since its formation. But consider some bleak realities we are seeing play out right now.
For starters, consider the crisis at the southern border. Some 72,000 illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries and neighboring nations crossed the border at ports of entry from October 2021 to October 2023. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are crossing the southern border every month, and there have been 1.5 million “gotaways” under President Joe Biden, which we know almost nothing about. Fiscal 2023 saw a record 151 people apprehended at the border who are on the FBI terror watchlist, more than the last six years combined.
Bleaker still, it must be acknowledged that thousands of people across the country are cheering on and defending the rape, kidnapping, and execution of Jewish men, women, children, and the elderly at the hands of antisemitic terrorists. Student groups at prominent universities cheered on the bloodshed. There were marches cheering on the terrorists, including in New York City. Black Lives Matter, with its millions of presumed supporters, has its Los Angeles and Chicago chapters cheering on the slaughter.
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This is not to say that an attack on U.S. soil is imminent or even likely. But it is always a looming possibility, as evidenced by the hatred on display by pro-Palestinian, pro-slaughter protesters and the fact that we have no control over who is entering through our southern border. This should be one of the first things raised the next time Democrats try to start another national gun control debate, and that is where that debate should end.