Gun Control Advocates Vague About What Laws Would Have Prevented GA Murders By Cam Edwards | Mar 20, 2021
For the past several days there’s been a steady stream of commentary that uses the murders of eight people in Georgia to push for new gun control measures. The problem for gun control activists, however, is that they can’t seem to offer any specific proposal that would have prevented the attack.
Take this recent editorial from the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, for example.
We have written these words before. America cannot go on like this.This week, it is Atlanta. Eight people were murdered because a man with hate in his heart decided the solution was a gun and death.
It is a sickness that Annapolis knows from first-hand experience. Five people were murdered in the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28, 2018, and the consequences of that shooting continue to play out in this community.
Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara and Rob Hiaasen are a testament to the truth of our national crisis.
Each new mass shooting, though, makes clear there are too many guns in this country and that they are too easy to use for evil purposes. We say confidently that while the circumstances may vary between each mass shooting, the underlying crisis is guns.
Obviously the editorial board of the Gazette has some strong feelings about the issue, given the fact that their colleagues were targeted by a killer who opened fire with a shotgun in the paper’s newsroom. While they certainly have the right to their opinion, the fact that they themselves can’t offer any real proposals other than “get rid of guns” is telling.
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