With the help of a sensationalizing media and of the entertainment business, which makes the violent video games and movies that I think play the biggest role in mass shootings, liberals predictably seized upon the Parkland shooting rampage to call for more gun control.
There are two hypocrisies here: First, Democrats, Hollywood, government officials and the mainstream media are all protected by gun-toting security. They are safe precisely because their guards have guns – which ghettos, farms and trailer parks do not. The mayor of Nashville has a personal security guard; she even found extra government work for him on the side.
Second, if more laws and gun control really worked, all mass shootings could just be outlawed. The FBI didn’t follow up on tips. And the deranged shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was visited by police 39 times, once after he put a gun to someone’s head. If you cannot enforce laws you have, why do you want to layer more laws on the current ones? Oh yeah – and the cowardly sheriff’s deputy at the school resigned, presumably to join the French Army.
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Senate Minority Leader Up-Chuck Schumer aligns himself with other famous world leaders who forced gun control: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Kim Jung-Il, Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez.
When you are told by politicians that you do not need the Second Amendment, that’s when you need it most. John Adams said, “Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of country, overthrow of tyranny or private defense.”