AP Analysis: Obama Executive Actions Wouldn’t Have Prevented Mass Shootings

Despite the fact that President Barack Obama pointed to past mass shootings as justification for a series of gun control executive actions, an Associated Press analysis found that none of Obama’s new orders would have prevented those tragedies.

The execution actions, AP’s Michael R. Sisak rules “would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California,” the two mass shootings Obama alluded to in his Tuesday speech.

“The shooters at Sandy Hook and San Bernardino used weapons bought by others, shielding them from background checks. In other cases, the shooters legally bought guns,” Sisak writes. He continues to note that the White House’s actions would not have stopped the Navy Yard shooting, the Charleston shooting, the Aurora, Colorado shooting, the Chattanooga shooting, or any of the major mass shootings of the past several years.

The AP’s analysis comports well with The Washington Post‘s findings a month ago that none of the mass shootings in past years would have been prevented by any of the gun control measures put forward since Sandy Hook.

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