What sort of society is it which promotes that the solution to gun violence is encouraging more people to carry guns? What sort of society elects a president who can't think of a better way to comment on a terrorist incident in London than to show relief that the terrorists didn't use guns because it didn't give an excuse for 'liberals' to push for better gun control?
If a South American or an emerging African nation produced figure like this, we'd be saying it was to do with the drug culture, or they just needed a bit more civilisation. But the USA has pretensions to be a role model for the rest of us. Donald Trump has often said the first responsibility of a president is to protect his people. He's got a funny way of doing that - facilitating them to shoot each other and at the same time, denying them decent health care so they die younger than they should.
I was encouraged that Australia is sticking to its sensible gun policy by having another push to get illegal guns out of circulation. Another gun amnesty and buy-back will remove more unnecessary guns from our communities and that has proven to be the best way forward. Take note, Mr Trump.
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