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