The Truth About President Obama’s New York Times Editorial

By Robert Farago

“THE epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis.” That’s the first line of President Obama’s New York Times editorial Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility. Obama starts as he means to finish: with a lie. If “gun violence” was “epidemic” it would be “rife, rampant, widespread, wide-ranging, extensive, pervasive.” It is none of these things, and the President knows it. Equally, the word “epidemic” implies that “gun violence” is a growing, spreading threat to our society. It is not; violent crime is down, and the President knows it. No surprise, then, that the President doubles down and proceeds with what’s called The Big Lie . . .

Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns. Suicides. Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. We’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of mass violence with this frequency.

The Commander-in-Chief has repeatedly declared that “we’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of …Read the Rest

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