by JOEL B. POLLAK18 Jun 2015
President Barack Obama reacted to Wednesday’s horrific massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina by calling for gun control and criticizing the United States for the frequency of mass shooting events. “We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said, adding: “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
Obama is wrong on both counts. Innocent people were killed because a murderer–likely motivated by racial hatred–had a gun–but guns in the right hands have stopped, or interrupted similar attacks before. In South Africa, for example–whose racist past seems to have provided gruesome inspiration for the Charleston killer–a parishoner stopped a mass shooting by a black nationalist group against a multi-racial congregation by firing his .38 revolver at the assailants, who ran away.
Wen has he not slam the USA. Another person that should leave if he doesn’t like it and take his race advisor Sharpton with him.
I am ashamed to be an American ,because this country , unlike advanced countries,, allows its populace to have guns.
If I could afford it I would move to Great Britain.
Americans brag brag brag and are very violent from the war mongering and taking over other countries the everyday citiznes with their guns.
guess you and obummer haven’t traveled much
Move to the UK? Really? A quick Google search came up with this: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-overtaken-gun-crime-capital-5172325
Gun crime is all over the world, and doesn’t seem in any way affected by extremely strict gun control laws.
Thank Declan. 9:27 is typical on the new Americans. Slam the USA but live under all the protection that this country provides. Go. 9:27 DON”T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS.
I expect such comments from people that have never really traveled, and have this rosy-eyed view of the world. I daresay 9.27 thinks England is all Harry Potter and tea with the Queen. However, one would think our President would have a little more knowledge of the rest of the world. He was making similar comments yesterday.
10:06 cited bogus Internet cite. Compare to Wikepedia firearm realated deaths coutnry by country
https://en.whttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rateikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_ratehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
very inaccurate if you have ever traveled you would know gun crime is much higher in south america especial Mexico and Columbia , It is also highly under estimated in France
I must have missed it but did our President ban Pressure Cookers after Boston? Do I have to pass a background check when I buy one.
if you read this blog probably yes lol
If anyone at the prayer meeting had a gun they could have killed the bad guy.