This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 13, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Translating tragedy like the killings in Orlando into sound public policy always presents a challenge, most especially immediately following the horrific

precipitating event.

Adam Bates, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, discusses some of the typical policy refrains that tend to follow these kinds of events.

Libertarian's are sort of caught between a rock and a hard place on the events in Orlando this weekend. Perfectly accepting of gays,

don't want to ban Muslims from the United States or in fact provide them with extra special scrutiny by federal

law enforcement agencies and also believe in a robust right to keep and bear arms for a variety of reasons.

So after having watched all the news sort of flow in and a lot of it is still coming in about the shooter

and a lot of his motivations. What do you say?

After a terrorist attack like this, as you said, we still don't have all the information, but the two sides have kind of segregated into their respective camps, which is people on the left tend to want to make

this about firearms and people on the right are inclined to make this about Muslims or

about immigrants, despite the fact that this the shooter

was not an immigrant.

But so yeah, the two camps have kind of settled down into their respective arguments that

they make after events like this and libertarians as usual are in the

middle saying knee-jerk reactions typically do not generate good policy we need to

hold off a little bit and think about this and come up with some policy responses

that actually make sense and address the problem.

So the typical policy responses from the left, we've seen Hillary Clinton calling for a renewed ban on certain

firearms that expired 10 15 years ago? 2004. Yes, Hillary Clinton has called for renewal.

The Assault Weapons Band, she lamented today that we do not ban 50 caliber rifles, which to my

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