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Paris Attacks Reframe Arguments Over 2nd Amendment, Israel

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 19 2015

Habitually exploiting tragedy for potential political gain, sermonizer in chief Barack Obama made the following claim on June 18 of this year: "Sometime as a country, we'll have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence doesn't happen in other advanced countries." Actually, it happens fairly frequently. Seven years of Obama's saint-on-the-cheap moralizing has become tiresome enough, but he could at least do us the favor of getting his facts right. To wit: Just five months earlier, Islamic terrorists had slaughtered twelve people in the Paris…

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