Attack On Trump:
Now It's The Gun's Fault?

The lead paragraph in a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump confirms what many in the firearms community had been expecting: somehow the blame will be shifted toward the gun.

"Amid days of intense focus on the security failures that allowed a gunman to nearly assassinate Donald Trump, Pennsylvania's top law enforcement official turned her focus to another key component in the deadly attack: the gun," the story by reporter Mike Wereschagin began.

Still, the Wall Street Journal noted in the first paragraph of its recent report on the Trump shooting, "Assassination attempts against U.S. presidents have led to major gun laws, but the July 13 shooting at a rally for former President Donald Trump appears unlikely to be a pivotal moment in the divisive U.S. gun debate."

Then comes the first line in a report posted by The Guardian, "More than a week after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump with an assault weapon, his political supporters and fellow members of the Republican party have remained silent on the issue of tightening America's notoriously lax 'gun control' laws."

There was little doubt among gun owners and Second Amendment activists in the wake of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting that sooner than later, anti-gunners would seize on the attempted murder to re-vitalize their crusade to ban modern semiautomatic rifles. .....