President Obama took the podium and lugubriously delivered an empathetic speech for the victims and survivors of Charleston's church shooting.
The president wasted little time to espouse gun control as the panacea for these violent crimes and lied when he said that America is the only place on earth that these shootings happen.
As an attorney President Obama should be aware of Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30 of January, 2007, titled "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicides?. Excerpted from the introduction: "There is a compound assertion that (a) guns are uniquely available in the United States compared with other modern developed nations, which is why (b) the United States has by far the highest murder rate. Though these assertions have been endlessly repeated, statement (b) is, in fact, false and statement (a) is substantially so."
The point is made in the Harvard Journal that more guns does not equal more violence and no guns does not equal less violence. England is the "Poster Child" example of what happens when ordinary citizens are denied arms for self-defense.
It appears the president subscribes to liberal/socialist/progressive practice of ‘’don't let a good crisis go to waste,’’ or “strike while the iron is hot.’’
Peter L. Williamson
Vancouver
