Over at Townhall this weekend, your Common Sense columnist considers President Obama’s emotionalist focus on the Newtown massacre as an excuse for irrelevant “gun control.” Go there. And come back here to cogitate on a few of the more controversial points:
- “Obama says ‘Shame on us’”
- MSNBC Discussion of the gun issue and emotion
- CBS News Poll on Gun Control Laws
- statistics source: Crime in the United States, 2011
- “‘Race Wars’ Part 1: The Shocking Data on Black-on-Black Crime” by Tiffany Gabbay, The Blaze
- “Race and Crime in the United States,” Wikipedia
- “Mass shootings are not growing in frequency, experts say,” New York Daily News