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OK, “Gun Control” Had Its Chance, Here Are The Results

President Trump, Vice President Vance and cabinet members reportedly watching surveillance footage of WHCD shooter in the Oval Office. Photograph Source: Dan Scavino – Public Domain

In the wake of Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged attempt to assassinate US President Donald Trump and/or other political officials, journalists, and general-purpose celebrities come the usual calls for “gun control” because that’s just how things work.

My preferred argument against such nonsense leans hard on morality (it’s evil to infringe on the unalienable human right to self-defense) with a chaser of overall practicality (more than 100 million Americans own several hundred million guns and won’t be giving them up without a fight you do NOT want to witness).

However, it occasionally it seems worthwhile to change lanes and........

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