In response to the recent NYC terrorist attack, president Trump has called for tougher immigration restrictions.
But after the Vegas shooting, we were told it was too soon to even talk about gun control restrictions. Of course, there is no evidence that restricting immigration is going to help either.
So why is one OK and urgent to do, but not the other?
Answer to both questions:
America is a Land of Immigrants. But the immigration that made America great happened almost entirely before the modern welfare state.
Prior to LBJ's 1965 Great Society immigrating to America was extreme hard work and about 1/3 went back to their home countries.
Mostly the best, brightest and most hard working the world had to offer ended up becoming Americans.
Today a lot come for the Food Stamps instead of the Freedom, and we end up with the rest of the worlds Trailer Trash.
President Trumps merit based limited immigration is a way to mitigate this.
Leftist love unlimited 3rd world migration because they are reliable Democrat voters.
Several decades ago Italians were reliable Democrat voters but they assimilated and are now just as likely to vote GOP. Leftist don't want this to happen with new ethnic immigrant groups.
So Democrats try to create a situation where with so many immigrants of one ethnic group coming in they can form their own Ghettos and no need to get jobs they will never assimilate.
Regarding Guns:
With a well armed population it is almost impossible to achieve a
Totalitarian Dictatorship. Without a Totalitarian Dictatorship a Holocaust or other types of Tyranny are impossible to achieve. The Founding Fathers understood this, that is why they established the 2nd Amendment.
Recent studies show that at least 2.5 million times a year American use guns to defend themselves. This is not just when shots are fired but also when bad guys are scared off by knowing their potential victim is armed.
Although they usually have less gun involved crimes, pretty much every western country with extreme gun control laws has a similar or higher overall violent crime and murder rates as the US (people just find different methods to commit crimes).
In many parts of Europe they have huge problems with
Hot Burgles and Home Invasions, where gangs just bust down the door with the family's in the house and then they rob, rape and murder. This seldom happens in the US because the bad-guys know they are likely to be shot.