Poor Marco Rubio. He seems to be confused. Maybe he has been working too hard. Perhaps he is simply dehydrated. Surely he’s not just your run-of-the-mill Republican hypocrite. Check out the senator’s latest remarks on the issues of gun control and immigration, both made on ABC’s
This Week this past Sunday, April 14:
When asked why he believed that anyone buying a firearm online or at a gun show shouldn’t have to go through a criminal background check, Rubio replied:
“Do you want the background check? Because the background check system right now does not work, because it's not being enforced. Number two is, criminals don't care about the laws that we pass with regards to guns. They never follow the law.”
In the same interview, when Rubio was asked about immigration reform, he had this to say:
“We are going to get the toughest enforcement measures in the history of this country. We are going to have E-Verify, universally, which means that you will not be able to find a job in the United States if you're not legally here. … [Immigrants] will have to come forward and pass a rigorous background check. If they’re criminals they won’t qualify.”
So, mandatory background checks for gun ownership are a bad idea. They inconvenience the law-abiding and are ignored by criminals. Marco Rubio is opposed to mandatory background checks.
On the other hand, if you want to catch illegal immigrants, running everybody through a federal database is a top-notch idea. Marco Rubio is all for mandatory background checks.
Drop the pretense, Senator. You don’t oppose background checks for guns because you believe in freedom or limited government or think such efforts are flawed. You simply care more about controlling immigration than you do about controlling gun violence. Immigrants, after all, don’t vote.