[fatnotlazy]

Maybe — a big maybe — this gun confiscation prevented some of the mass murders like San Bernadino. But it did not prevent the usual gun homicides like what we see in Chicago every day:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425021/australia-gun-control-obama-america

[USNBandit]

Compare this:

On his website, Monis had pledged allegiance to "the caliph of the Muslims", believed to be referring to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and denounced moderate Islam.

With this:

According to multiple reports, Malik swore her fealty to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi on social media. US officials have told CNN, The New York Times, and NPR that Malik pledged bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to Baghdadi and his self-declared "caliphate" before she and her husband were even finished terrorizing the Californian city. The Associated Press interviewed an executive at Facebook who said that Malik "posted the material under an alias account at 11 a.m. Wednesday," just minutes after the shooting spree began. Facebook discovered the account, took it down and then reported its findings to law enforcement officials.

The first account was from the coffee house hostage standoff in Australia almost one year ago. The second was about the San Bernardino shooting. Notice a trend?