Immediately after the news of the tragic school shooting at Uvalde, Texas broke, Democrats and other leftists began their customary shrieks demanding gun control. Their arguments are just as contemptible as their timing.
Guns are not to blame for mass shootings. The National Rifle Associations is not to blame. The vast majority of gun owners are not responsible for mass shootings. The individuals committing the heinous crimes are the only individuals who are responsible for the mass shootings. These individuals are aided and abetted by Democrats through their gun free zones.
This article, Kobach: Gun Control Lies that Democrats Will Tell in the Days Ahead (breitbart.com), is a treasure trove of information and statistics to counter all Democrats’ specious gun control arguments, including the necessity and effectiveness of gun free zones.
The empirical data show just how dangerous gun free zones are. As pointed out by John Lott Jr., fully 98 percent of mass public shootings since 1950 occurred in places where citizens are banned from having guns. Most shooters recognize that they will encounter less resistance if their intended victims are unarmed. Or stated differently, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun; and the criminals know it.
This quote debunks the lie about the necessity of ‘assault weapon’ bans
However, it turns out that the overwhelming majority of mass shooters don’t actually use AR-style rifles. The Congressional Research Service wrote a lengthy report on this subject in 2015, defining a mass shooting as one in which three or more people are killed in a single incident. The study found that out of 317 mass shootings between 1999 and 2013, offenders used AR-style rifles in 31 incidents – or only 9.78% of the time.
The solution to the mass shooting crisis proposed by the author of this article, Nolte: Why Do We Refuse to Protect Our Schools? (breitbart.com), is so beyond obvious.
Evil has discovered a fast and easy way to become famous: shoot up a school. Better yet, shoot up an elementary school. We’ve known this going all the way back to Columbine. Worse still, we’ve known the pattern since Columbine…
Evil shoots up a school. A corporate media desperate for blood, ratings, and furthering its fascist agenda makes Evil the center of the world for as long as the media can milk it. This OBVIOUSLY gives other Evils ideas. And here we go again…
We live in a free country. A country where we have wisely decided that all the downside — and there are wheelbarrows of downside — that accompany free speech and a free press is worth the upside. Okay, fine. There’s nothing we can do about a craven media that exploits and pimps Evil in a way that encourages more Evil. So what’s the alternative? Protect our schools. That’s the alternative. Duh.
Democrats do not want mass shootings to end. They want them to continue. IF mass shootings stopped Democrats would not be able to shriek for gun control. If we the American people are not disarmed, then we will be able to prevent the Democrats from stripping away all of our rights.
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