Never change, WaPo. I'd miss the laughs!
You gotta love how WaPo bills itself as this neutral icon of objective journalism, but pushes for gun-control articles under that banner of "journalism."
While gun-control measures remain a bitter partisan political issue in the United States, they are a common response to mass killings in many countries.
It's almost like America is, I dunno ... exceptional?
WaPo goes on to tell us how Britain banned guns (they just have lots of stabbings now), as well as how other former British colonies banned guns.
Nowhere in the article does it mention that Australia, which just had a mass shooting that killed 15 people, has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, meaning said gun laws utterly failed to stop the slaughter.
The paper also threw in a few Baltic/Eastern European nations, because nothing says "land of the free and safe" like ... Serbia?
Also missing from the article is whether banning guns has actually lowered homicide rates, or how unchecked mass migration from violent countries is affecting violence rates. For example: Why were two Islamic terrorists living in Australia in the first place?
The article has nothing to say about how armed U.S. citizens routinely and effectively protect themselves from threats because they can own modern-day weapons to fight modern-day bad guys. While the FBI has been accused of severely underestimating the number of incidents where a good civilian with a gun stops a bad criminal, the Crime Prevention Research Center looked at 561 cases from 2023-2024 and found that armed civilians stopped 202 (36%). When you look only at shootings where civilians stopped a bad guy outside of gun-free zones (bad guys' favorite target of choice), it jumps to more than 52%.
Other reports routinely share similar data about the effectiveness of an armed citizenry:
WaPo addresses none of this. It also doesn't note that 58% of gun deaths in America in 2023 were suicides, not homicides, despite the fact that this changes the context entirely.
Nor does WaPo look at the demographics of gun crime, lest we notice certain per capita patterns in inner-city Chicago.
Instead, it quotes the prime minister of New Zealand, an island country on the other side of the planet from America ... to push for gun control in America ... after a shooting in Australia.
To be honest with you, I do not understand the United States.
The liberal feminist leader of a former British colony doesn't understand the ideals of liberty and self-defense that founded the United States??
I think George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would wear that as a badge of honor.
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