Las Vegas Review-Journal

This white, male gun lover has never shot anyone

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GET ready for my confession. I’m white, male and Republican. I dislike government. I believe in the Constituti­on. I demand a

Republican­s are killers. And President Donald Trump is to blame — along with 63 million Trump voters. And banning guns is the only answer.

But they forgot to mention a few things.

The 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics reports noncitizen­s (primarily illegal aliens) make up

7 percent of America’s population, but commit

42 percent of federal crimes.

Isn’t it strange how all these criminals killing or committing other crimes against American citizens don’t bother the Democratic Party or the liberal media? No headlines. No hysteria. No calls for action.

If Trump is responsibl­e for every white mass shooter, why aren’t Democrats responsibl­e for the vast majority of the violent crime committed by criminals they protect from deportatio­n in their “sanctuary cities”?

On the days leading to the two terrible mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, there were 60 shootings in Chicago. It was so bad, Mt. Sinai Hospital had to stop accepting patients on Sunday because it hit maximum capacity in the trauma center. Sixty shot? How did that escape the media’s glare?

A year ago, on the same weekend in Chicago, 74 people were shot and 12 killed. Yet no blame for Democrats.

If Trump is responsibl­e for every white mass shooter, why aren’t Democrats responsibl­e for the vast majority of the violent crime committed by criminals they protect from deportatio­n in their “sanctuary cities”?

Chicago already has the nation’s strictest gun control laws. They are a failure.

Or look south of our border. Wikipedia reports,“mexico has extremely restrictiv­e laws regarding gun possession. There is only one gun store in the entire country.” Yet 889 people were killed in the first seven months of this year in Juarez, El Paso’s sister city.

In 2018 there were 25,339 murders in Mexico. And Mexico just set a new alltime record with 17,608 murders in the first half of this year.

So, I guess the problem isn’t one race. Or Republican­s. Or Trump.

Did I mention the shooter in Dayton was a registered Democrat and supporter of Elizabeth Warren? Is Trump to blame? It’s funny how the media didn’t mention that.

The problem isn’t even mass shootings. They’re horrific, but they make up a tiny percentage of murders.

And the answer sure isn’t strict gun control. It doesn’t work. Criminals don’t care, but defenseles­s citizens are slaughtere­d.

So please, let’s not jump to conclusion­s and make bad decisions based on one very tragic weekend. I’ll have some common-sense solutions that might actually work in Sunday’s column.

Contact Wayne

Allyn Root at Wayne@ Rootforame­rica.com. Hear or watch the nationally syndicated “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show” from 3 to 6 p.m. daily at 790 Talk Now and at 5 p.m. on Newsmax TV.

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