Liberalism’s Phony Solution to Gun Violence - The American Spectator

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Liberalism’s Phony Solution to Gun Violence

It pushes for more laws while destroying the civil society that makes citizens virtuous enough to follow them.

by George Neumayr

June 8, 2022, 11:00 PM

In the wake of every mass shooting, the liberal response is always the same: the proposal of new laws. But even as liberals push new laws, they support prosecutors, such as the now-recalled Chesa Boud...

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George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of The Biden Deception: Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?

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