{"id":125217,"date":"2023-04-01T06:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=125217"},"modified":"2023-04-01T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T04:40:46","slug":"teachers-union-president-calls-for-australia-style-solution-to-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/teachers-union-president-calls-for-australia-style-solution-to-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers union president calls for Australia-style solution to gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

People won’t give up their guns if government won’t prosecute and incarcerate criminals. Period.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The president of the nation’s second largest teachers union this week called for the U.S. to do “what other great democracies” have done regarding gun violence.<\/p>\n

Referring to American gun violence as an “epidemic,” Randi Weingarten used the recent school shooting<\/a> in Nashville, Tennessee to “renew [the] call for common sense gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault weapons.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s an epidemic that our great nation must solve,” Weingarten said<\/a>. “And how many lives will be shattered before we have the courage to do what Scotland did, what Australia did, what New Zealand did, what other great democracies do? We must solve this epidemic, and that\u2019s up to us.”<\/p>\n

Weingarten later complained to MSNBC that her words had been “doctored” to indicate she wanted total gun confiscation in the country. But as noted above (and as you can see in the video provided by Fox News below), Weingarten merely includes <\/em>an assault weapons ban in a package of “common sense” reforms.<\/p>\n

What\u00a0really<\/em> is the eye-opener, however, is the invocation of the noted countries. If Weingarten just wants to ban so-called assault weapons, why bring up Australia, New Zealand and Scotland?<\/p>\n