In 1993, McCarthy's husband was killed and her son critically wounded by the Long Island Railroad gunman. Colin Ferguson's rampage was triggered by the anti-white racism spewed by the likes Louis Farrakhan and Khalid Muhammad. McCarthy blames not the racists who incited her husband's killer but the weapon he used. It's so much easier to demonize an object than confront human evil. Each new gun law is the magic bullet, so to speak, guaranteed to counter criminals who, by definition, ignore legal enactments.
Proponents portray gun shows as slaughter super-stores.
But the events are hardly unregulated. As federally licensed firearm dealers, over 60 percent of vendors are already required to do background checks. According to a 1997 Justice Department study, less than 2 percent of firearms used to commit crimes come from shows, compared to 35 percent obtained on the street. But fear not, moms of America. One would have to be as unreasonable as the NRA to object to such a prudent measure.