America used to care about national security…its own

Are  America’s guns a threat to America’s national security?

Yes, says Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on the easy access to at the easy access to firearms in the United States, especially semiautomatic weapons, and how they pose a national security threat, from terrorists both foreign and domestic.

She wrote: “Foreign terrorist organizations have long urged their followers to take advantage of lax U.S. gun laws to plan attacks in the United States.” Go down to a gun show at a local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check — American Al Qaeda recruit in 2011 video

Weigh that up against the appalling news that  Republican senators blocked a bill related to domestic-terrorism prevention on May 26, just days after America’s secon…