In the wake of a Bastille Day terrorist attack in Nice, France in which 84 were left dead and many more injured when a truck drove through a crowd, some conservative politicians and pundits have used the tragedy to sarcastically call for “truck control” in an absurd attempt to refute calls for gun control after mass shootings.
Foremost among them is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who took to Fox News to say that because there was one attack involving a truck, he now believed President Barack Obama would call for regulations on trucks....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/15/3798677/conservatives-call-for-truck-control-after-nice-france-attack/

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