Posted on 12/12/2015 12:10:36 PM PST by Kaslin
Earlier this month, presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared on CBS's "This Morning" and made the following claim about gun control:
"None of the major shootings that have occurred in this country over the last few months or years that have outraged us, would gun laws have prevented them."
The Washington Post, doubting Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) statement, decided to fact check him by analyzing some of the most tragic shootings to occur since Newtown. To what seemed like a surprise to the editors, the consistent result was, "No proposed laws" would have made a difference.
They started with the most recent tragedy in San Bernardino, where Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik gunned down 14 people. California is already, the WaPo noted, a very strict gun control state. Yet, the "laws did not thwart" the killers.
Another case in point: John Zawahri killed five people in Santa Monica, California with a .223 semiautomatic rifle in June 2013. This, despite that fact he was not eligible to purchase firearms. He also produced other illegal weapons.
This is another example of where California's strong gun laws apparently failed to prevent a tragedy. Zawahri was determined to circumvent the law.
Is this not true of many murderers? Time and again, we are reminded that killers don't care about our laws. If they want to kill, they find a way. As for gun-free zones, they are often bright, flashing welcome signs for killers who know they will have an advantage over defenseless individuals.
The clear trend gave the WaPo only one conclusion: Rubio deserved a "rare" Gepetto checkmark for his accurate claim:
This is certainly a depressing chronicle of death and tragedy. But Rubio's statement stands up to scrutiny — at least for the recent past, as he framed it. Notably, three of the mass shootings took place in California, which already has strong gun laws including a ban on certain weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Did the compost publish the results themselves?
Rubio and every other Republican candidate. Why is only Rubio singled out?
Let’s see. Thousands of Americans are killed each year while farting around with their “smart” phones while walking or driving. We need to take their “smart” phones away and only allow them to have flip phones that make only phone calls. Just think of the lives we can save.
Why are liberals always so surprised that gun laws do not accomplish the intended goal? Only law-abiding citizens obey laws.
Restating a comment I offered on a different thread which no less applies here. “I go about at all times armed with weapons to be used in self defense and the defense of the lives of others in need. All having use in addressing long range threats and close quarters instances requiring my response. The weapons I carry are meant to defend against threats from either the two-legged or four-legged dogs wandering about in my immediate vicinity. I advocate for, but do not rely upon, my fellow citizens doing the same.”
Except that the premise is wrong, so the conclusion is also wrong. People aren't made to do bad things by inanimate objects in their environment, they do bad things because of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
My theory is that liberals have impulse controls problems and believe everyone else are just like them.
Conservative Analysis: Rubio is wrong about amnesty for 11-40 million future Democarts who will vote for gun control.
Projection, in other words. I agree that that’s a factor, too.
The fact that no current, or proposed, gun laws would have prevented the mass shootings investigated by the comPost will be used to justify total confiscation of firearms and abolition of private gun ownership.
That has always been the disarmists’ end game.
Bingo
There ya go. I've been saying that for years. The biggest problem with liberals is their "flower child" mentality that people are basically good. Not since the big fall in the Garden. The only power I know of to redeem people and make them acceptable human beings is the power of Jesus Christ.
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