I say this every time we've got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn't happen in other countries,
Barack Obama after San Bernardino Shooting
So quickly we forget Paris, Mr. President. On a per capita basis, there are half a dozen European countries where the odds of getting killed in a mass shooting are higher than in the US. Of course, a mass shooting in Europe has to be much bigger to get any coverage here in the US. Four people killed in Serbia is hardly going to play on the evening news but that same thing in Chatanooga, TN, can run for days. The bias of the news to report US shootings rather than similar shootings in Europe gives verisimilitude to the president's claim. No, the only European shootings reported here are the big ones, like Paris last month, or the massacre of 77 Norwegians - mostly teenagers - in 2011.
As with every such incident, President Obama suggests gun control. It is irrelevant to him that the guns used in the San Bernardino shooting were illegal in California. California has been ratcheting up gun control for years, for the safety of its citizens, don't you know. What gun control does, as I have mentioned time and again, is to disarm the law-abiding while providing a safer environment for the criminals. Criminals hate when their victims shoot back.
Every time Obama broaches the gun control issue, gun sales go through the roof. EVERY TIME. He is a gun store's best advertisement. He can't not know this. No one has done more for gun proliferation in the past 7 years than Barack Obama. If he had been a gun advocate instead, he would not have been able to convince so many to buy guns. When it is counterproductive to even mention a policy, maybe that is a policy best avoided.
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