Posted on 06/13/2016 6:35:49 AM PDT by pabianice
The details are different, but the story is the same: A killer with access to military-style weaponry mows down innocent Americans in cold blood. On Sunday it was apparently a self-radicalized Muslim who murdered 49 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando. In 2012, it was a mentally ill man with the same type of gun who killed 26 at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Next, who knows?
It makes no more sense to blame Islam for the Orlando shooting than it would to blame mental illness for the Sandy Hook massacre. The common thread and decisive factor in those and so many other mass shootings was the availability of powerful semiautomatic weapons that serve no purpose but to kill. It’s not likely the nation will ever be free of malcontents, whether they’re homophobic religious zealots or unstable nuts. But it could be free from the guns that enable them to do so much harm, so easily.
The weapon used in Newtown and Orlando, the AR-15, must be banned for civilian use, along with other military-style guns. The assault rifle ban, passed under President Clinton but allowed to expire under George W. Bush, must be restored permanently. It would not stop all killings. But it would make it much harder for lone-wolf terrorists and troubled young men to equip themselves for mass carnage. The government should forbid the sale of guns to individuals on the terror watch list. There also should be no sales allowed of any weapon without background checks, even if the purchase happens at a gun show.
Those ideas are not new and have widespread support, but opposition from the gun lobby has repeatedly thwarted them. Even reasonable hunting enthusiasts and Second Amendment advocates agree that every constitutional right has a limit.
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I thought they did that. If not, why even bother having a list?
Go shopping and go to the theaters all you want, if Americans surrender their Second Amendment rights, ISIS WINS!
Exactly WHERE is the proof of this? Where is the proof he had no contact with ISIS entities, not a part of any cell, or any of that? Exactly NONE but this opined liberal bullshit.
If he had used gasoline, would the liberals be happier?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire
The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that killed 87 people trapped in an unlicensed social club named “Happy Land”, at 1959 Southern Boulevard in the West Farms section of the Bronx in New York City on March 25, 1990. Most of the victims were young Hondurans celebrating Carnival,[1] largely drawn from members of the local Garifuna American community.[2][3] Unemployed Cuban refugee Julio González, whose former girlfriend was employed at the club, was arrested soon afterward and ultimately convicted of arson and murder.
We must first identify the problem.
Islamic Terrorism.
By pretending this is a gun control issue she has condemned us to becoming defenseless victims.
Terrorists and criminals will always be armed, irrespective of Hillary’s proposed TYRANY.
They are desperate, they KNOW Mr. Trump won the election this past weekend.
This is the act of a Muslim terrorist. No longer are we allowing Muslim refugees to enter the US.
Declare war on ISIS, AQ, Muslim Brotherhood and every organization that espouses hate and violence against the USA. Then aggressively go after them on the battlefield at home and abroad, freeze or seize every financial account they have and hound them throughout the world. Put a “wanted dead or alive” poster out on every known member of these terrorist organizations throughout the country.
What the Orlando terror attack shows is that America needs to stop allowing in “refugees” who have no intentions of assimilating.
When the nation is attacked, beware the politician who’s solution is to disarm the citizenry.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Give it a week or two in the news cycle and it will already be about more gun laws. Our village idiot (Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.) has already called for such a “solution” before the first of the dead are even buried.
Fewer guns? Seems to me the problem Saturday night was not enough guns.
Need bullets going the other way, not prayers.
That’s what the “common citizen” is thinking...gun sales will.likely surge again
The problem with the list is in who controls it and who gets on the list. Veterans and Christians have been considered as terrorists so even a seemingly good idea like a watch list can be used to disarm the people.
I heard on Ktla 5 in Los Angeles say he visited Saudi Arabia twice in the last 5 years
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