Why Kirk’s Assassination Isn’t Watershed Moment for Gun Control

Anti-gunners are pouncing on the opportunity to try and push gun control in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They see an opportunity, as they all too often do, to seize a tragedy and make it about their preferred policies that just happen to take a steamy dump on our right to keep and bear arms.

The fact that Charlie Kirk was a vocal defender of the Second Amendment is irrelevant. At least, it’s irrelevant when they’re not trying to use that fact to somehow justify his murder.

Over at The National Review, Charles C.W. Cooke argues that this horrible incident is really not an argument for gun control

Per the Wall Street Journal:

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.

This ought to end all attempts to blame Kirk’s murder on America’s gun laws — or, worse, on Kirk’s support of the Second Amendment. The “older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle” is the go-to example that gun-control activists give when asked which weapons they do not want to ban. Per the FBI, the gun was a “bolt-action rifle.” This means that it was not semi-automatic, that it did not belong to the AR family, and it did not have a so-called “high capacity magazine.” This sort of gun is legal in all 50 states. It is legal in Canada. It is legal in England, for goodness sake.

More than that, this is the gun that we’ve been told they’re not coming for. This is the kind of gun they say they have no interest in taking from Americans. It’s a hunting rifle, right?

Plenty of people, as Cooke notes, are saying this is because of guns or our lack of gun control, but this isn’t a gun that would be restricted based on current arguments. It was everything we’re told is nice and safe from their gun-grabbing hands.

Yet they will keep trying to leverage Kirk’s murder to justify what they’ve wanted all along.

Which is ironic because the odds are so good as to approach absolute certainty that the killer is someone who agrees with these people on 99.9999 percent of all political issues. He’s one of them, and likely a fan of gun control to boot.

Of course, that won’t get a lot of play in the media, I’m sure.

What is, though, are these calls for gun control. They’ll get the attention and never face any real pushback. The media will roll over and do whatever the anti-gunners want because they share that opinion. They’ll use this to undermine our Second Amendment rights if they can.

But Charlie Kirk didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would want that.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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