Washington Post -- Gun Laws Would Not Have Prevented Recent Mass Shootings

From Breitbart's Big Journalism:

The Washington Post‘s fact checker took a look at recent mass shootings and concluded there is no evidence that stronger gun laws would have prevented any of them.

Glenn Kessler decided to fact check a statement by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on the red-hot topic of gun control. Last Friday on CBS This Morning, Rubio said, “None of the major shootings that have occurred in this country over the last few months or years that have outraged us, would gun laws have prevented them.” Kessler doesn’t say exactly who suggested he check this claim, but he does note that the colleague who did so assumed that “it was almost certainly incorrect.”

Since Rubio’s statement was a bit vague, Kessler went back as far as the December 2012 Newtown shooting in Connecticut. Based on a list of mass shootings between then and now maintained by progressive magazine Mother Jones, Kessler assembled a list of 12 shootings and looked at the circumstances of each one in turn.

What he found was no evidence that any proposed gun laws would have stopped any of the mass shootings in question. In most cases, guns used in these killings were purchased legally (though not always by the person who used them).

It must really burn the few honest liberals, when the facts get in the way of the narrative.