Obama: Gun control is not that different than driving safety (VIDEO).

Watch Obama Make a Sensible Case for Gun Control Which Is Sure to Be Completely Ignored

Watch Obama Make a Sensible Case for Gun Control Which Is Sure to Be Completely Ignored

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June 3 2016 1:10 PM

Watch Obama Make a Sensible Case for Gun Control Which Is Sure to Be Completely Ignored  

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President Obama answering a gun control question after a PBS appearance.

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President Obama has unfortunately had many occasions to talk about how he'd like to respond to Ameria's gun violence epidemic, and at least once before he's compared the gun-control policies he advocates to the way we regulate safe driving and vehicle safety. At a PBS News Hour town hall in Indiana last night, the president took a question about gun ownership from the owner of a gun store and gave a pretty good common-sense version of the car-safety argument in response. The video: 

Makes sense to me; for a more skeptical take, though, click here. In any case, we are probably not getting any gun-control legislation, common-sense or otherwise, through Congress any time before November.