Boulder terrorist attack should be another blow to the gun control movement

After an illegal immigrant from Egypt lit multiple pro-Israel protesters on fire with Molotov cocktails, Raskin decided to pivot away from the obvious antisemitism to lecture people about gun control. “We are still in the midst of a gun violence epidemic,” Raskin said. “So we need to be acting with due concern for human life. I mean, this is why, of course, we have been fighting for universal, violent criminal background checks. We are for a ban on military-style assault weapons in the country. You know, our lax gun laws are a danger to everybody in America.”

This is all completely irrelevant. The pro-Palestinian terrorist in Boulder did not use a gun, “military-style assault weapon,” or otherwise. He would never have passed any sort of background check because he is an illegal immigrant. “Lax gun laws” have nothing to do with Molotov cocktails. This was a targeted, antisemitic attack from an antisemitic terrorist who has consumed left-wing narratives about Israel and “Palestine.”