Posted November 15, 2017 1:32 pm by Comments

By Chris Enloe

The only feasible way to prevent the next mass shooting in America is to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens, an opinion writer for the Boston Globe recently declared.

What did he say?

The writer, David Scharfenberg, proceeded from the premise that not only are “thoughts and prayers” not enough after a mass shooting, neither are an assault weapons ban or increased regulations on firearms. Instead, according to Scharfenberg, the only way to solve America’s problem of seemingly unending gun violence is through mandatory gun confiscation.

“The logic of gun control lies, at bottom, in substantially reducing the number of deadly weapons on the street — and confiscation is far and away the most effective approach,” Scharfenberg wrote.

He used — as most anti-Second Amendment advocates do — Australia’s gun confiscation from the 1990s as a model America should follow. Former President Barack Obama said the same in 2015, Hillary Clinton said it on the campaign trail last election and countless other Democrats have cited it, too.

What did the confiscation law do?

After a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996, which saw 35 people slaughtered, Australia took action.

Scharfenberg explained:

It took just 12 days for conservative Prime Minister John Howard to announce a …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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