Bill Clinton tried to force regulation, too:
"I've come to believe he needs a certain level of violence in this country," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, said on ABC-TV's This Week. "He's willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda, and the vice president, too."
If the left REALLY wanted to stop the gun violence, they'd allow people to defend themselves. ALL the mass killings occurred where the victims were sitting ducks. Had those those killers known their victims could defend themselves, these killings would have never happened.
That's your assumption. I say they'd have happened anyway or do you think schizophrenic Jared Loughner would've somehow been deterred? There was someone armed on scene and he didn't take a shot. No rational person is going to open fire in a darkened theater full of smoke and a panicked crowd in hopes of hitting an armoured gunman.
Nice try but both sides are ridiculously utopian-minded. The Left falsely believes guns can be entirely controlled, the Right falsely believes arming everyone is a certain deterrent to lunatics.
“Bill Clinton tried to force regulation, too:
“I’ve come to believe he needs a certain level of violence in this country,” Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president, said on ABC-TV’s This Week. “He’s willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda, and the vice president, too.””
I’ll NEVER forget that. I was watching and recording it. It was during the 2000 campaign. Cookie literally stuttered trying to respond to it. It was a DIRECT FRONTAL ASSAULT on the grabbers - they NEVER saw it coming. He went on back up his words. Prior to saying that, it looked like gun control was making a comeback.
It was at that moment that the gun control debate ended at the national level. We could have 10 more of these killings and it won’t matter. It’s over.