By David Codrea
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- At least 28 people have been reported killed at this writing, with 60 more injured following a “double suicide bombing” at Istanbul’s Atatürk International Airport, CNN (and every other major news organization) is reporting.
And the killers used “illegal guns” before the explosions.
“According to the information I was given, a terrorist at the international terminal entrance first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew himself up,” Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told his state news agency.
How the terrorist got his hands on such a weapon demonstrates the utter uselessness of “gun control” at stopping those who are evil and determined. Because Turkey’s gun laws read like Hillary’s wish list.
Per GunPolicy.org, a globalist citizen disarmament project of the Sydney School of Public Health that partners with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, Turkey’s gun regulations are categorized as “restrictive.”
“In Turkey, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law,” the summary informs. “In Turkey, civilians are not allowed to possess automatic firearms and semi-automatic firearms.”
Turkey requires background checks, licensing and registration for other firearms, which also require a “genuine reason” [aka: justifiable need] to possess.
Who thinks the dead terrorist gave a moment’s notice to any of those “impediments” to the “law-abiding”? And as GunPolicy.org admits, it is estimated that only about a third of “civilian” guns in Turkey have been registered, leaving six million guns unaccounted for (and giving our domestic “I will not comply” advocates plenty of corroboration that it can be done, and is).
As this is a fast developing story, expect plenty of new information to come out, quite probably including updated casualty figures (the death toll was 10 when work on this draft began).
A fair question: Will there be a rush to judgment reaction against the right to keep and bear arms like we just saw following Orlando from the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats, and the media?
Will we see catered sit-ins by privileged politicians protected on the taxpayers’ kuruş? Will we see Turkish politicians mugging for cameras by demanding to make Kalashnikovs even more illegal? Will we see Turkish newspapers (at least the ones not yet confiscated by the state) featuring full front page headlines screaming BSSAH supporters have blood on their hands?
Put in that perspective, it certainly makes the ever-predictable hysterical blood dance reaction of U.S. gun-grabbers look as ineffectual, hateful, petty and buffoonish as those who engage in such tantrum tactics actually are.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
In addition to being a field editor/columnist at GUNS Magazine and associate editor for Oath Keepers, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Real gun control is using both hands and hitting your target as often as you desire without any secondary damage.
Problem is they need more restrictive explosives laws…..
democrats staged a sit in to demand more gun controls to make it easier for terrorists to kill as many people as possible before police arrive..democrats are not capable of figuring out other countries have strict gun controls and terrorists are still killing people.
Another outstanding Codrea article. Those who have found this article linked from GOA should bookmark codrea’s section here on ammoland and his blog at waronguns.blogspot.com. I always ask this question to gun prohibitionists: why do they think a gun ban would be any different from the various drug and alcohol bans our government has put in place over the last several decades? Do these same people not also argue that it is pointless to ban marijuana because it doesn’t work? Who does not obtain drugs that actually wants them in america today, even in the prison system? Why would a… Read more »
If you CANT get on the airliner to blow it up and kill a couple hundred people, then do it while they wait to go through “SECURITY” to BOARD that aircraft. I’d say our TSA slow processing lines are prime targets for this in the future.
If only we loved them more.
They would not have attacked.