Somebody shot up a couple of mosques in New Zealand, apparently killed a lot of people. So, how's that permit, fingerprinting, extensive background check, and 7-round magazine limit working out for you, New Zealand?
I trust Obama, Reed, and Murphy will be on TV tomorrow, saying “I was wrong. I’m sorry. My bad.”
President Obama talked about it a lot, including in June of 2015, after a gunman shot nine people in a Charleston, North Carolina church: "Let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries," Obama said.
Days later, Sen. Harry Reid echoed his comments. "The United States is the only advanced country where this kind of mass violence occurs," he said.
More recently, the tragic, preventable slaying of 17 students by accused gunman Nikolas Cruz elicited similar sentiments from Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, speaking in the Senate just last Thursday: "This happens nowhere else other than the United States of America."
I trust Obama, Reed, and Murphy will be on TV tomorrow, saying “I was wrong. I’m sorry. My bad.”