Eugene Robinson: We Need to Look at Gun Confiscation Like They Did in Australia

RUSH EXCERPT:
ROBINSON: "And you can never put your finger on it. And therefore you can’t talk about any piece of legislation that might have stopped the last one or might stop the next one. Meanwhile, there are 300 million guns in this country. And so a real gun debate has to look at that fact: 300 million guns. And we need, you know, to look at what was done in a place like Australia where they had a gun buyback. And gun control is permissible, according to the Supreme Court. And so if Congress were to decide, it won’t happen, were to decide that automatic assault rifles, long guns, are something that, military-style weapons, are something that citizens should not have, they should be police and military only, and we’re going to buy them back, that would have an impact. It’s not going to happen. But that would have an impact. And that’s what the debate ought to be."