Sachs, a Columbia Professor [1]
and former runner-up for the World Bank Presidency nomination, didn’t
waste any time in using the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. to promote his
already existent pro-gun control campaign.
Since
the violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Dec. 14,
Sachs has tweeted 15 original tweets (not including retweets), and
written 3 articles for his own website alone ranting for stricter gun
control laws.
“Will
our twisted, gutless political class ever do anything about gun
control? Can any atrocity bring the US to reality?” Sachs tweeted soon
after the shootings. In another tweet, Sachs claimed that “Gun lobby
foments nonsense that we need unregulated automatic rifles to stop
tyranny. Yet most strong democracies have strong gun control.”
Sachs
also told Bloomberg News on Dec. 17 that the “mindlessness of this
country completely violates what every other high income country is
doing.” He argued that the U.S. should adopt gun control laws similar to
Australia’s [2], which make it nearly impossible to own firearms.
One of Sachs’s most notable works is his “Millennium Village Project,” which has received $50 million [3] from George Soros’s Open Society Institute as of October 2011, with another $27 million [4] promised over the next few years.
The goal of the Millennium Promise Campaign is to get “the world’s 22 richest nations” to increase their foreign aid budgets.
