Posted March 31, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Earlier this week, I wrote about how other countries’ gun control laws aren’t necessarily responsible for the lack of mass shootings. In it, I point out that mass shootings tend to be either rare or non-existent events prior to the shooting used to justify gun control laws in those countries.

Meanwhile, though, I didn’t get into mentioning massacres in the United States.

Frankly, it wasn’t relevant. I was talking about other countries at the time.

However, I started to think that it might be a good idea to take a step back and look at our own nation for a bit. In particular, our own history with mass shootings of various types, including rampage shootings. After all, if the claim is going to be that gun control worked for these other countries, doesn’t it help to understand the differences in the problem itself?

So, I decided to do a little research and see what I could find.

Part of the problem I found is that our nation’s early history is loaded with massacres. There are plenty from before our nation’s founding as well as after. Many of those, however, were groups of people slaughtering other groups of people and while horrific, not …Read the Rest

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