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On DC’s big WMAL to discuss the immediate call for more gun control laws that wouldn’t have stopped the Florida School Shooting

Feb 16, 2018 | Featured

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After each mass public shooting there is an immediate call for more gun control laws, but strangely the effort keeps on being for gun control laws that are completely unrelated to the crime that they were being motivated by.  People say that they want to do something, but let’s do something that is related to the tragedy.  Gun control advocates refuse to discuss those laws that might actually make a difference.  Dr. John Lott talked to Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese on WMAL the morning after the Florida school shooting.

(Monday, November 6, 2017, from 7:05 to 7:13 AM)

 

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