Republican strategist Karl Rove appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and offered his point of view on the only way to stop gun-related violence such as the senseless massacre that took 9 lives on Wednesday at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C. His was to repeal American citizens’ Second Amendment rights.
CHRIS WALLACE: How do we stop the violence?
KARL ROVE: I wish I had an easy answer for that, but I don’t think there’s an easy answer
We saw an act of evil. Racist, bigoted evil, and to me the amazing thing is that it was met with grief and love. Think about how far we’ve come since 1963. The whole weight of the government throughout the South was to impede finding and holding and bringing to justice the men who perpetrated the [Birmingham] bombing.
And here, we saw an entire state, an entire community, an entire nation come together, grieving as one and united in the belief that this was an evil act, so we’ve come a long way.
Now maybe there’s some magic law that will keep us from having more of these. I mean basically the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets enough “oomph” to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen.
Rove continued by saying “I don’t think that’s the answer”, however, it’s rather troubling to me that Rove would suggest repealing the Second Amendment as a means to end violence.
When you consider that states having the strictest firearm laws also have the highest crime, it defies logic to think that repealing the Second Amendment would end violence when statistics have proven the exact opposite time and again.
H/T: Daily Caller
