The New York Post published an editorial encouraging President Trump to “come up with answers” starting with “the return of an assault-weapons ban.”
“The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own ‘guns in common use.’ That doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings,” the editorial board stated. “This ban would only be part of the response: Keep improving background checks, find wiser approaches to mental health, get every state to pass a red-flag law (do a federal one, too, even if issuing these restraining orders is mainly the job of state courts).”
“One of the big reasons that crime has fallen so far in New York City is a crackdown on guns. Their ownership is restricted, and the NYPD is focused on getting illegal ones off the street. Gun control works.”
NY POST SAYS: BAN WEAPONS OF WAR https://t.co/eqpghmhCsl pic.twitter.com/PYHOfuiiBI
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) August 5, 2019
Over two dozen people were killed this weekend in two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
The New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Murdoch also owns the Fox News Channel.
In February 2018, the Post urged similar action in an editorial titled “MR. PRESIDENT, PLEASE ACT: We need sensible gun control to stop the slaughter,” following a shooting in Parkland, Florida. The paper called for an assault-weapons ban, raising the age to buy firearms, banning bump stocks, and killing the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
Tomorrow’s front page of the New York Post, a Murdoch-owned Trump favorite, is powerful. So was the one 18 months earlier. After which nothing changed. pic.twitter.com/3yyPUyILZd
— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 5, 2019
The U.S. instituted a ban on assault weapons from 1994 to 2004.
