(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Parroting a popular Democrat talking point to subvert the rights of law-abiding gun owners, a CNN talker celebrated the July 4 weekend by proclaiming that gun shops should be required to investigate their customers’ social media history before selling them firearms.
Alisyn Camerota from CNN Newsroom made another typical leftist suggestion while she was interviewing Charles Ramsey, former Philadelphia police commissioner, and Steve Moore, former FBI supervisory special agent, according to Summit News.
Observing that “these suspects,” referring to criminals, “are starting to look alike,” Camerota had a simple request.
“Is it too much to ask the gun seller to do a cursory check on social media?”
Moore needed to explain to Camerota that the United States still has privacy laws and that profiling Americans is not the job of gun sellers.
“They’re not really allowed to, in some ways,” he said. “They are retail merchants.”
He then compared the situation to asking liquor store owners to check the social media of alcohol buyers so that they would not accidentally sell booze to a potential alcoholic.
“The gatekeepers are the government, essentially,” Moore said. “It is not the retail establishment.”
Camerota decided to push the leftist narrative by saying that Moore’s point actually supported her argument, because it is against the law to sell alcohol to people who are already drunk. Moore needed to explain once again that gun sellers are not supposed to profile people who want to buy firearms.
She then asked Ramsey a question, mentioning one of the leftists’ favorite boogeymen — AR-15.
“Is there no such thing as a database where a gun seller can look to see if somebody’s recently, in the past day, purchased an AR-15?” she said. “Would that help, commissioner?”
Camerota, who apparently loves the idea of snooping through gun owners’ private data, likely approved of New York‘s latest gun restrictions.
The state’s leftist Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul, signed into law last week legislation that requires gun-permit applicants to provide years of their social media history and produce so-called character references, among other new requirements.
