Guns — When Trump Can’t Even Tweet<br />“You’ve got to wonder,” Kelly said in a phone interview, whether the president would have had a<br />more intense reaction if the news reports suggested “the shooter was of a different ethnicity.”<br />During his government-shutdown-immigration rants, Trump kept pointing out<br />that the man who killed eight people with a truck in Manhattan had come to the country through a visa lottery system.<br />After the Las Vegas massacre, in which the murderer had purchased at least 55 weapons in the year leading up to the shooting, Kentucky’s Governor Bevin<br />seemed to feel the most unbelievable part was the call by “political opportunists … for more gun regs.” He tweeted: “You can’t regulate evil…”<br />Maybe not, but you can definitely try to disarm evil.<br />Meanwhile, our president is running a re-election campaign ad (“Oh God,” moaned the nation) which announces<br />that “Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.” Do you think he feels responsible for the 15,583 gun violence deaths — suicides not included — that occurred during the first year he was president?<br />Another super-modest bipartisan bill aimed at beefing up the background check system was introduced after the church shooting in Texas,<br />in which the mass murderer never should have been cleared to buy a gun, even under the stupendously lenient American system.<br />Donald Trump — who yelled about “carnage” in big cities during his inauguration speech — has said not a word about the Kentucky shooting except to tweet his “thoughts<br />and prayers.” (Even that, commenters noted, came nearly 24 hours after the prime minister of Canada sent his sympathies.)
