{"id":452949,"date":"2022-05-26T05:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:04:58","slug":"if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"#If fixing US gun crisis is the aim, we need to unite\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d681aab6b2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d681aab6b2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/#%E2%80%9CIf_fixing_US_gun_crisis_is_the_aim_we_need_to_unite_%E2%80%9C\" >&#8220;If fixing US gun crisis is the aim, we need to unite\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/#Seek_common_ground\" >Seek common ground<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/#Stoking_partisan_fires\" >Stoking partisan fires<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-fixing-us-gun-crisis-is-the-aim-we-need-to-unite\/#Racial_disharmony\" >Racial disharmony<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CIf_fixing_US_gun_crisis_is_the_aim_we_need_to_unite_%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8220;If fixing US gun crisis is the aim, we need to unite\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just 24 hours after the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Beto O\u2019Rourke found a way to make the tragedy all about him.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas gubernatorial candidate tried to upstage his rival, Gov. Greg Abbott, as he was updating the public on the tragedy Wednesday. Bursting into the room to shout about guns and parade for the cameras, O\u2019Rourke\u2019s performance was so grotesquely narcissistic it disqualified him from being considered a serious person, let alone a candidate for high office.<\/p>\n<p>But sadly, his emotional outburst is where we are at when it comes to dealing with the scourge of mass shootings: stuck in a viciously partisan stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Gun control advocates high on their own moral virtue mindlessly demonize upholders of the Second Amendment as monsters, incapable of empathy. Besieged defenders of the constitutionally protected right to bear arms dig in and refuse to give an inch. The rest of the world looks on, aghast, at America\u2019s madness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we not be a nation that can stand together for at least a day or a week or a month, my gosh, to put these families first,\u201d exclaimed an anguished Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, after O\u2019Rourke interrupted the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a time where .\u2009.\u2009. people are at each other\u2019s throats .\u2009.\u2009. whether it\u2019s on the Internet or an Oscar\u2019s stage or two coaches arguing or the political world or the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> world. Who are we as an American people? Who are we?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-075.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke disrupts a press conference held by Governor Greg Abbott the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 25, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22416268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-075.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-075.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-075.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Democrat Gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke interrupted Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s press conference in a vile attempt to politicize the school shooting.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Veronica G. Cardenas<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patrick encapsulated the despair anyone who loves this country feels.<\/p>\n<p>If gun control is the aim, rancor and finger pointing goes nowhere, as is obvious from the past 10 years since the Sandy Hook school massacre.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Seek_common_ground\"><\/span>Seek common ground<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There should be common ground for politicians acting in good faith, with polls showing almost all Americans, whether they own a gun or not, agreeing that background checks should be strengthened and the mentally ill prevented from buying guns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"Shooter 18-yr old Salvador Ramos Instagram user epnupues posted screen shots of a conversation she had with Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos. Ramos tagged her account in a photo he posted showing two machine guns. Ramos allegedly shot and killed 14 students and one teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22416267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=347 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=116 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-074.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>Alleged Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos posted a photo of his rifles on Instagram before his rampage on children.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">salv8dor_\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Banning people under 21 from purchasing semi-automatic weapons, as New York Gov. Hochul is advocating, makes sense, considering most school shooters are teenagers. The Uvalde killer was 18, the Sandy Hook shooter was 20.<\/p>\n<p>Most school shootings between 1970 and June 16, 2020, were perpetrated by 16- and 17-year-olds, according to Statista research. The numbers decline sharply from age 18.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping guns out of the hands of emotionally disturbed young men until their brains fully develop could save lives. But, as with all attempts at gun control, it may be unconstitutional. A California ban on semiautomatic weapons for adults under 21 was ruled unconstitutional this month by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>eals.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be realistic about what can be achieved with new laws, and it is destructive for Democrats like Chuck Schumer to raise false expectations by pretending that somehow 400 million guns will magically disappear if monstrous Republicans would stop being obstructive.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Joe Biden\u2019s line, too.<\/p>\n<p>His initial instincts seemed good on Tuesday night in his speech reacting to the tragedy of Ulvade.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stoking_partisan_fires\"><\/span>Stoking partisan fires<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>His opening and closing words were appropriately respectful and mournful, a president with personal knowledge of grief calling for the nation\u2019s prayers for murdered children and their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the core of his speech struck a wildly different tone. The man who claimed at his inauguration that his goal was to unify the country went out of his way to stoke the same bitterly partisan divisions that got us here.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-070.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke disrupts a press conference held by Governor Greg Abbott the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 25, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22416266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-070.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-070.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-070.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Democrat Gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke offered no gun legislation solutions while hijacking Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s press conference.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Veronica G. Cardenas<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden began by empathizing with the grieving parents. \u201cTo lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He quoted scripture: \u201cThe Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So many crushed spirits, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, tonight, I ask the nation to pray for them, to give the parents and siblings the strength in the darkness they feel right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He should have ended there, because what he had said was perfect, a healing balm for a nation united in grief.<\/p>\n<p>But then he flicked the switch to nasty and raised his voice in anger, the only emotion that seems to animate him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-069.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\" class=\"wp-image-22416265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-069.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-069.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/devine-gun-crisis-069.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated that the chamber would not quickly take up any House-passed background check bills.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pacific Coast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> \/ Rod Lamkey \u2013 CNP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen in God\u2019s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?\u201d began a tirade complete with his old joke about deer in Kevlar vests and vague appeals for action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sick and tired of it. We have to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blamed his political opponents: \u201cWe need to let you know that we will not forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does that even mean?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Racial_disharmony\"><\/span>Racial disharmony<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We have a president who seems incapable of making a statement without blaming Republicans or \u201cUltra MAGA\u201d for all the self-inflicted ills that plague his presidency, despite the fact his party controls the House, the Senate and the White House.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Wednesday afternoon, while the sweet faces of the victims of Uvalde were filling the news and the shock of their deaths still was sinking in, the president chose to reach backwards to rip open the wound of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Can he not see that the wave of crime and carnage engulfing the nation now is due to the \u201cDefund Police\u201d movement\u2019s violent anti-cop riots after Floyd\u2019s death at the hands of a Minneapolis cop.<\/p>\n<p>Now Biden thinks that what the country needs is another divisive executive order, to \u201creform\u201d police practices, just another vain attempt to appease the radical left of his party and stoke racial disharmony.<\/p>\n<p>Again he took a swipe at \u201cour Republican colleagues,\u201d and fell back into fueling imaginary grievances against cops, declaring \u201cblack Americans wake up knowing they could lose their life in the course of just living their life today, simply jogging, shopping, sleeping at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That statement is more true today than it was before he became president, thanks to less policing of crime-ridden black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>There is a sickness in America, and more rage and partisan point-scoring from the White House just makes it worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Biden still has a chance to rescue his presidency. 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