Posted on 02/20/2019 4:59:48 AM PST by rktman
Last week Rep. Nancy Pelosi warned President Donald Trump that if he declared an “emergency” to build a wall, “think what a president with different values can present. … Why don’t you declare (the epidemic of gun violence in America) an emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would. … A Democratic president can declare emergencies as well.”
Her fellow Democrats Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren quickly agreed.
Warren tweeted: “Gun violence is an emergency. Climate change is an emergency. …”
Yikes.
Not every problem in America should be declared an emergency – or used by a president to justify acting without Congress.
But why are guns on the Democrats’ “emergency” list anyway?
One reason is sloppy reporting by lazy media.
Last year, they claimed that there were school shootings at “hundreds of schools.” It was “an almost daily occurrence” in the U.S., some said.
This was nonsense. NPR reporters looked into the 235 shootings reported by the U.S. Department of Education and were only able to confirm 11 of them.
It turned out that schools were added to the list merely because someone at a school heard there may have been a shooting. Good for NPR for checking out the Education Department’s claim.
Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (and father of one of my producers), spends much of his time researching gun use and correcting shoddy studies.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
A National Emergency should be declared for Marxist RATs who are running out of their Xanax.
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