By Brandon Hall
(Email him at WestMiPolitics@Gmail.com
Congressman Justin Amash noted the hypocrisy of the same guy who sends guns overseas for people to kill each other subsequently lecturing Americans on gun control policy...According to Reason:
"While numerous skeptics of the idea that stronger gun control would meaningfully curb mass shootings or reduce murders have assailed President Obama's proposed executive action on guns as foolhardy, Rep. Justin Amash formulated a different criticism of the plan. He tweeted:
"So, the guy who sells guns from our government to radical Syrian rebels lectures law-abiding Americans about selling guns to each other."
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) January 5, 2016
Perhaps an overlooked loophole in the gun debate is the one that permits the federal government to sell weapons to Syrian rebels without an up-to-date declaration of war against the opposing forces of ISIS and Bashar al-Assad.As for violence in the U.S., Amash wrote that the government should focus on "conditions that lead to violence: mental health issues, lack of economic opportunity, unfair criminal justice system," rather than gun control."
We need more politicians like Mr Amash.
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