TTAG Publisher’s USA Today Op-Ed: ‘Gun control is not the answer’

By Robert Farago

The following editorial appears at usatoday.com and in their dead tree edition. It was written “in response” to the editors’ pro-gun control editorial [click here to read] which they didn’t show me before I wrote mine (as is their standard policy):

Even before the bodies were cold in the San Bernardino mass shooting, President Obama called for more gun control. He urged Congress to pass a law banning firearms purchases for people on the Transportation Security Administration’s unaccountable, unconstitutional no-fly list . . .

Wait. What? What would that have done to prevent the slaughter? By the same token, what would any gun control law do to prevent evil people from enacting their homicidal plans, be they Chicago gang-bangers or a religious zealot attacking a Planned Parenthood clinic? Nothing.

No assault weapons ban, no gun violence restraining order, no ammunition magazine capacity law would have prevented the San Bernardino slaughter. No gun control law has stopped Robert L. Dear Jr. from allegedly killing three people in Colorado.

There’s only one way to stop killers from killing: Put them where they can’t get access to a gun, knife, explosives, car or any other lethal weapon. Put …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns