No plan to save America's children should focus on AR-15s
in Uvalde, Texas, and, even more recently, the Wednesday night murderous attack inside the Natalie Medical Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
If you rank the deadliest U.S. mass shootings with Columbine as your starting point, Columbine is far down the list. The irony of Biden starting with a crime from nearly a quarter century ago to make the point that America has seen enough is that America claimed it had seen enough way back then, too.,” a reporter said to then-President Bill Clinton in 1999, “we go through this chorus of hand-wringing and say we've got to stop it from happening again.” Yet another reporter told Clinton that “there seems to be an epidemic of these kinds of incidents now.
. There have been nine shootings with more murder victims and two others with as many. Six of those shootings have been deadlier than the one in Uvalde. The massacre at Sandy Hook was not only deadlier than the one at Robb Elementary, but also its victims were younger. What reason, then, is there to believe that we’ll look back at Uvalde as a tipping point?
That’s not meant as a criticism of Biden’s speech. He dutifully appealed to Americans’ sense of decency and our claim that the deaths of little children hit us the hardest. Speaking during a week that began with Memorial Day, the president made a direct link between U.S.
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