Trump Is Right. Let's Make American Ballroom Again |
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Mea culpa, mea culpa. I’ve previously expressed my reservations about Trump’s big beautiful ballroom, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting changed my mind.
As the president himself, and thousands of his supporters echoed, this terrible event would not have happened if only there’d been a giant ballroom. They’re right.
The solution to the nation’s epidemic of gun violence has been staring us in the face this whole time: we need more ballrooms.
Yes, ballrooms. In every school, every house of worship, every movie theater. Ballrooms in malls. Ballrooms in Waffle Houses and 7-11s. Every new home should come with a Panic Ballroom, and all older homes should be retrofitted to include them.
Make America Ballroom Again.
Those who advocate for greater restrictions on guns have failed to slow the rate of gun violence in this nation. The headlines over the past week—8 dead children in a mass shooting in Louisiana, 6 shot in........