Washington Free Beacon staff writer Stephen Gutowski explained on C-Span's Washington Journal on Monday that universal background checks "wouldn't necessarily have stopped" recent mass shootings in the United States.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday claimed none of the amendments to the Constitution are "absolute" while discussing the Second Amendment.
The pattern was established long ago. A killing spree happens. The Democratic Party and mainstream media erupt in calls for gun control. Republicans shy away from cable news for a few days. Various fixes to the background check and mental health systems are proposed, video games are criticized, and eventually our attention turns elsewhere, until another spectacular attack restarts the cycle. President Trump increases the volume and heightens the perceived stakes. The advocates of gun control, such as Elizabeth Warren, say he's a "white supremacist." Opponents of regulation say he's the only thing that stands between them and dispossession of their Second Amendment rights.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.), a Democratic presidential candidate, said there should be a debate in the United States about whether ownership of handguns should be permitted during an interview with the New York Times.
President Barack Obama said the United States' gun laws "don't make much sense" and claimed anybody "can buy machine guns" while speaking at VTEX Day 2019 in Brazil.
In an interview with the Washington Post, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens lamented about the Supreme Court's 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision and said, "there’s no need for all the guns we have in the country and if I could get rid of one thing it would be to get rid of that whole gun climate."
On Wednesday, National Rifle Association board member Lt. Col. (ret) Allen West shed more light on the election of the group's officers during a closed-door session of the board's meeting.
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Washington Free Beacon staff writer Stephen Gutowski explained on C-Span's Washington Journal on Monday that universal background checks "wouldn't necessarily have stopped" recent mass shootings in the United States. 
