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Obama Praises 2nd Amendment While Touting Gun Confiscation

In the course of announcing numerous new executive gun controls on January 5, President Obama said, “I believe in the Second Amendment.” He even said he believes the Second Amendment “guarantees a right to bear arms.”

But these declarations of belief in the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms are challenged and undone by the fact that this very same president has heaped praise upon countries that availed themselves of confiscatory policies to get rid of guns altogether.

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Salon: Drive For ‘American Exceptionalism’ Leads To Mass Shootings

On August 27, Salon magazine published an interview with the author of a recent study on mass shootings to claim that the drive for “American exceptionalism” creates “a gap” between that which people desire and that which they achieve, thereby resulting in a dissonance that leads to violence.