How do these terrorists obtain their firearms?
Honest question: If we hold bartenders and establishments responsible if they over serve a patron who drives off and kills somebody, why can't we punish the people who sell firearms and ammunition to murdering terrorists?
Honest answer - is a bartender is responsible only if they serve a noticeably intoxicated person.
For gun sellers - assuming they run the proper background checks - how are they supposed to identify those with homicidal tendencies?
If only they were running proper background checks.
Right now, the majority of states do not require background checks at gun shows. Also, a large number of states don't submit names of mentally ill into the national database, only 7 states account for 98% of those individuals deemed unable to buy a firearm due to mental illness. Let that sink in. 7 states, 98%. So the remaining 45 states only have 2% of the remaining mentally ill? Not for nothing, but that's how the VA Tech shooter got his gun. He was mentally ill, and declared so 2 years prior to buying a gun and killing 30+ people.
But let's not talk about that. It's not the time or the place.