“Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now?” he tweeted. “That’s because they used knives and a truck!”The president’s triumphal note completely overlooked the fact that Britain, unlike the United States, settled its gun debate emphatically decades ago in favor of civilian safety and tight controls. The difference in the two nations’ gun homicides is stark. Comparable gun assaults in this country have been met by an outraged public but craven politicians yielding to the gun lobby’s propaganda. Increasingly, these involve the assault-style weapons whose absence Mr. Trump, inadvertently, celebrated in his tweet.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 07:18 UTC