The Patriot Post® · Down Under Gun Control

Following the latest high-profile shootings, Barack Obama told America it needs to do some “soul searching” on gun control. We’re pretty sure he wasn’t directing that message to the bleeding-heart leftists salivating to ban all manner of guns in America. No, Obama thinks Liberty lovers “should be ashamed” for not allowing even the “mildest restrictions.” But Obama gave a clue as to what he really wants when he went on to praise the gun control laws Australia passed in 1996. “A couple of decades ago,” Obama said, “Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said, ‘Well, that’s it, we’re not doing – we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven’t had a mass shooting since.” If you remember, Australia rounded up all the semi-automatic guns in the country, threw them on the scrap heap and destroyed them. If that is Obama’s definition of a civilized society, he is wrong. Gun confiscation in America won’t work out well for statists. This nation was founded on the idea that a self-governing people have the God-given right to defend themselves – not only from a low-life criminal but from the whip of tyranny. More…