CCRKBA Fires Back After Calls for Gun Control Following Manhattan Shooting

Right now, the media is flooded with anti-gun voices demanding gun control. From politicians to activist organizations, the calls are loud and continuous.

The only counter making the mainstream media are pro-gun lawmakers who are firing back as best they can. This is likely by design, making it look like these elected officials are really out of touch, that no one supports what they’re saying, and so on.

That’s simply not true. A lot of us do.

And one of the groups trying to fire back is the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which sent out this press release on Wednesday:

The tragic and senseless murders of four people in a New York City office building underscores the horribly misguided gun control mindset, which disarms good people and doesn’t stop bad ones, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) stated.

That the crime occurred in the middle of Manhattan’s business district—where local and state law makes it virtually impossible to legally carry a defensive firearm—is even more proof that New York’s policies are literally “dead wrong,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.

“The murderer drove clear across the country from his home in Nevada to commit a horrible crime that New York anti-gunners said their laws would prevent,” Gottlieb observed. “In the process, he violated laws in New York which were supposed to prevent this sort of outrage, and likewise when he drove through neighboring New Jersey. Did their existing gun laws stop him? They didn’t even slow him down.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s immediate call for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” reveals the far left’s single-message myopia when it comes to violent crime: blame the gun, not the criminal. New York already bans semi-auto rifles and magazines, but the prohibition didn’t prevent the killer from carrying out his attack. Anti-gunners simply refuse to understand the glaring flaw in their gun control philosophy.

Gottlieb summed it up by pointing to the remark by former FBI Agent Nicole Parker, appearing on Fox News, who matter-of-factly stated, “Evil people don’t obey gun laws.”

“If it is this easy for a former FBI agent to explain,” Gottlieb wondered, “why don’t Empire State politicians understand such a simple, and indisputable fact? The perpetrator of Monday’s outrage drove two thousand miles, across several states, to commit his crime. He wasn’t going to let New York’s gun control laws get in the way. 

“It is time to separate reality from the fantasy world in which gun control proponents seem to thrive,” he said. “They seem to imagine that adding more restrictions on the rights of lawful gun owners will somehow prevent criminals and crazy people from committing violent crimes, and that is a dangerously flawed presumption. 

“People now proposing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens,” he said, “apparently learned nothing from Michigan’s Walmart knife attack, which was stopped by a legally-armed private citizen. The difference between good people with guns and politicians who dislike guns is that the politicians exploit tragedies while armed citizens want to prevent tragedies.” 

While anti-gun jihadists are arguing that the problem wasn’t that New York’s gun laws failed, it’s that Nevada doesn’t have enough, the truth is that if those gun laws are so easy to bypass–which we’ve long pointed out, by the way–then yeah, they failed. It’s just that simple.

Further, as I’ve been trying to note this week, including earlier today, evil people don’t need a gun to kill a lot of innocent people. Even if they do, it doesn’t take an AR-15 to do it. Yeah, I’ll be on that particular horse for a while until it’s good and dead, then beat it a little more.

But Parker’s comment is absolutely correct. Evil people don’t obey gun laws. If they were inclined to do so, then I’d suspect that the laws against murder would also be sufficient.

They’re not, though, so now people think gun control is the way to address it, but only when the mass murder involves a firearm. Otherwise, it’s just an awful tragedy, and we should look at something else instead.

Funny how that happens, isn’t it?

Yet as Gottlieb points out, the mass stabbing at a Michigan Walmart should have been a wake-up call. Not only did the rampaging maniac not use a gun, but he was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Would more gun restrictions have prevented that attack? Obviously not, since an evil intent was all that was needed for such a thing.

But it just might have allowed the attack to become more bloody and potentially deadly.

The issues surrounding these massacres are complex, and we’re not doing a very good job of parsing out just what’s behind them. The anti-gun agenda drives too much of the narrative for us to have a meaningful conversation on the topic. Instead, we’re talking about gun laws and ignoring the deeper issue.

And nothing is going to change in this instance, either.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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