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Townhall
What
Common-Sense Gun Control Looks Like
Erick Erickson
Oct 09, 2015
Last Thursday, as Americans were still coming to grips with the tragic
rampage in Oregon, President Obama addressed the American people. An
hour before the president spoke, news outlets were confirming that the
shooter in Oregon had targeted his victims based on their religion.
Multiple eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims all said the shooter
asked the victims to state their religion. Those who said "Christian"
were shot in the head. Others were shot in the legs or other parts of
their body. The president -- in 1,299 words -- never once discussed
religious tolerance or even condemned the shooting. It is worth noting,
at a minimum, that had the shooter or victims been Muslim, the
president would have talked about religious tolerance.
Saying "this is something we should politicize," the president
proceeded to call for more gun laws, though he could not name any that
would have prevented the shooting. Instead, he cited "friends of ours,
allies of ours -- Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours."
But what do those countries' gun laws look like? The president and the
left wing media horde of editorialists and activists citing Great
Britain and Australia give us our hint -- gun confiscation. Both
countries have very tight bans on guns and have confiscated their
citizens' guns. Australia raised a tax and used that money to buy back
guns in Australia. Several studies suggest that the Australian gun laws
did reduce gun related suicides, but only weakly at best improved the
homicide rate...
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