Your "tag-line" is OT and since it is a controversial subject,
it is counter productive to post it to this forum. It is
your opinion and only one side of the issue.
But since you have posted it, I feel the need to post
a counterpoise, in this case from Gun Owners of
America. Consider it a "tag-line".
Mario
In California, gun control fails once again
Erich Pratt, Opinion contributor Published 5:37
p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018 | Updated 9:38 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2018
Wednesday's California bar shooting was in a gun-free zone, where good
guys cannot legally carry firearms: Opposing view
Once again, we see the failure of gun control in preventing a horrible tragedy.
Wednesday's California bar shooting was in a gun-free zone, where good
guys cannot legally carry firearms.
Gun-free zones are magnets for killers. Consider that almost 98
percent of public mass shootings in this country occur in these
mandatory victim zones.
But where citizens can protect themselves, the situation is much
different. Within the past month, two potential mass shootings were
averted by law-abiding citizens who used their concealed firearms.
But the anti-gun left fails to mention how these two citizens saved
lives in those incidents. Why is that?
We will never rid ourselves of one basic problem: Bad guys with evil
intent will always acquire some kind of weapon to commit violence.
This includes using a truck to kill eight and injure 11 in New York
last year or wielding box cutters or knives to murder roughly 3,000 on 9/11.
Sadly, USA TODAY's Editorial Board wants to merely focus on just one
instrument the gun.
Never mind the fact that Wednesdays shooting occurred in a state that
imposes some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.
This includes universal background checks, a ban on so-called assault
weapons (and a prohibition of standard capacity magazines), a red
flag law that allows gun confiscation, and more.
None of these draconian restrictions stopped Wednesdays shooter.
Nor are they effective elsewhere, as seen by the fact that the United
States is not even in the top 10 when one compares international death
rates resulting from mass shootings.
This is why we should listen to our first responders. Over 85 percent
of police agree that mass shootings would be reduced or avoided
altogether by the presence of legally-armed citizens.
Insanity has been described as redoubling ones failed efforts and
expecting different results. That describes gun control its insane.
Erich Pratt is the executive director of Gun Owners of America, a
national gun rights organization.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
Once again, there has been a mass shooting. This time,
it was in Thousand Oaks, California. And once again, just
as he did after the recent mass shooting in Pittsburgh,
President Trump sent his thoughts and prayers to the
families of the victims. Thoughts and prayers will not
stop the carnage. Action is needed on gun control, and
more guns -- as Trump proposed for Pittsburgh and Parkland
in Florida -- is not the answer.
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