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Monday, December 14, 2015

FREEDOM FORCE: Gun Control Follies: White House Can’t Name One Shooting their Measures would have Prevented!

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Onan Coca

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was put in a tough spot this past week when he was asked to defend President Obama’s stupid gun control ideas.

The Wall Street Journal’s Byron Tau told Earnest that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) had recently argued that all of the measures being parroted on the left would have been completely ineffective at stopping any of the recent mass shootings in the nation — a statement many in the media have found inconvenient but impossible to debunk. Tau then asked Earnest, “If not a single recent mass shooting would have been stopped by the kind of gun control measures you champion, are those the right approach to this problem?”