When we talk about politics, there is what we’d like to see and then there’s what’s attainable. I’d love to have zero pollution of any kind, for example, because I love clean air and water. That’s not remotely going to happen because flatulence alone counts as pollution, apparently, and then you have the fact that some people just don’t care to follow the rules.
That’s one of the issues with gun control. It’s not about what’s realistic or what’s feasible, but about fulfilling that part of activists’ desire to pretend what they’re pushing for is better than anything else.
For all their many sins, most lawmakers seem to understand this.
Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman candidate David Hogg, however, does not. He seems to believe that Congress could pass enough gun control laws so there are never any more school shootings ever.
.@davidhogg111: Congress must enact new laws to ensure “there are no school shootings anymore” pic.twitter.com/MOCMGRViVL
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 17, 2024
Now, the number of “school shootings” cited by Dana Bash at the beginning of the clip is misleading. A lot of those “school shootings” are incidents that happened outside of school hours, often when there weren’t even students on campus at all.
That said, Hogg’s comments are…wow.
First, this is a guy who has based his entire career on school shootings. If I thought a law that merely inconvenienced me would actually make him go away, I’d sign on tomorrow. The problem is that there are no laws on the books that would make school shootings just vanis. Hell, there was one in Finland earlier this year. A year ago, 34 were killed in a nursery school in Thailand. Nine others were killed in a school shooting in Serbia last year. Another 22 were killed in a 2022 school shooting in Russia.
So just how in the world is Congress going to pass a law that will make it so “there are no school shootings anymore,” David? How?
Are we just going to make them extra illegal?
Those other countries have far more extensive gun control laws on the books and they’re not immune to mass murder, and I don’t look at other gun-related incidents on foreign school campuses, especially as some try to define school shootings. You know there are a lot more in some of these places.
This is a guy who sat on national television and literally said we could make these things just go away with the right laws. This is someone who wants to lead. He wants a key role at the DNC, one that will shape the direction of the party for years to come, and yet he’s promising something that’s not only unlikely to happen but literally cannot be guaranteed.
And he wonders why we don’t sit down and take him seriously. He wonders why we don’t believe him when he says he has no interest in dismantling the Second Amendment.
He said we could eliminate school shootings forever when clearly, that’s not remotely possible. The only way that could remotely be feasible is to ban all private ownership of guns. Even then, it would still happen, but that’s where this will go and nothing he says going forward can change that.
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