{"id":126356,"date":"2019-08-05T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126356"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:09:39","slug":"exposed-even-the-conservative-new-york-post-is-calling-for-gun-control-as-if-on-cue-with-the-rest-of-the-msm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126356","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED! Even the conservative New York Post is calling for gun control as if on cue with the rest of the MSM."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post urges Trump to take action on assault weapons<\/h1>\n

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By Post Editorial Board
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

Two mass shootings within 24 hours in\u00a0El Paso<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dayton<\/a>, days after the\u00a0Garlic Festival killings<\/a>. Three months after\u00a0Virginia Beach<\/a>, six months after\u00a0Aurora<\/a>, nine months after\u00a0Thousand Oaks<\/a>, 10 months after\u00a0Tree of Life<\/a>, 15 months after\u00a0Santa Fe High School<\/a>, 18 months after\u00a0Parkland<\/a>\u00a0and in the wake of larger horrors like the Vegas concert and Pulse nightclub massacres.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod bless the people of El Paso, Texas. God bless the people of Dayton, Ohio,\u201d President Trump tweeted Sunday.<\/p>\n

God save us all, sir. People all across the nation are scared; many feel like the country is spinning out of control. They\u2019re looking to their leaders for more than prayers.<\/p>\n

America is terrified.<\/p>\n

President Trump, you are positioned to assuage that fear. On gun control, you are a pragmatic centrist, someone who knows there is a vast majority of Americans who are not to the extreme left or right on this issue. They just want the killings to stop.<\/p>\n

Yes, we know the president regularly praises the Second Amendment and received the National Rifle Association\u2019s support in the 2016 race.<\/p>\n

But the Second Amendment leaves ample room for regulating gun rights, just as every other constitutional right has its limits.<\/p>\n

And Trump has sneered at others for being afraid of the NRA when it comes to passing common-sense gun laws. He\u2019d surely have rather had Congress pass a law banning bump stocks, although his administration got it\u00a0done eventually through executive action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plus, the NRA\u00a0is falling apart<\/a>\u00a0at the seams these days \u2014 with insiders profiteering from hysteria-driven fundraising finally exposed. Far wiser to appeal now to the (much more numerous) Americans who hunt or keep guns for self-defense but are appalled by the endless string of mass shootings.<\/p>\n

Come up with answers. Now. Beginning with the return of an assault weapons ban.<\/p>\n

We know: That label doesn\u2019t actually describe a clear class of guns. And that some studies show that the last ban, in effect from 1994 to 2004, had a limited impact. But that simply means the next ban should be better written, with a clear definition focused on factors like firepower \u2014 rate of fire, muzzle velocity, etc. \u2014 not on cosmetic features.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own \u201cguns in common use.\u201d That doesn\u2019t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.<\/p>\n

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This ban would only be part of the response: Keep improving background checks, find wiser approaches to mental health, get every state to pass a red-flag law (do a federal one, too, even if issuing these restraining orders is mainly the job of state courts).<\/p>\n

And by all means, do as Sen. Elizabeth Warren suggested in last week\u2019s Democratic debate and \u201cdouble down on the research and find out what really works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, let\u2019s go for bipartisan action here \u2014 maybe some sort of summit of top political leaders; maybe a high-powered commission full of people without political ambition; maybe both, and more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s telling that the 2020 pack\u2019s answers all sounded so tired last week: For decades now, the nation\u2019s gun-control debate has been dominated by those who want all guns banned and NRA-type extremists who see every marginal change as nothing but a step on the road to a universal ban.<\/p>\n

Even though the vast majority of Americans are in the middle,\u00a0desperate for practical measures<\/a>\u00a0to stop the carnage.<\/p>\n

One of the big reasons that crime has fallen so far in New York City is a crackdown on guns. Their ownership is restricted, and the NYPD is focused on getting illegal ones off the street. Gun control works.<\/p>\n

An assault weapons ban is aimed at the likes of the El Paso shooter, who coldly plotted how to kill as many as possible, as quickly as possible. Let\u2019s make that a lot tougher for the next monster.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuns don\u2019t kill people, people do,\u201d says the clich\u00e9. But the twisted and the evil can kill a lot more people when handed a murder machine. Our Founding Fathers gave us the right to bear arms in a time of muskets. They did not foresee a time when one 21-year-old could kill 20 people in the span of minutes thanks to poisonous beliefs and an assault weapon.<\/p>\n

It does not have to be this way. It should not have to be this way. Mr. President, do something \u2014 help America live without fear.<\/p>\n

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