Gun Control: What’s the Worst That Can Happen?

There are a lot of people out there who favor gun control. They have that right, of course, because we cannot have a free society if people don’t have a right to be a jackwagon or just plain wrong. Otherwise, we are trying to control thought, and even if it’s thoughts I agree with, I’d rather not. That power gets abused all too readily.

But let’s understand that some people are wrong. They’re horribly wrong.

What’s worse, though, is that they’re so wrong they don’t even realize just how bad it is, even when they try to acknowledge they might not have it right.

Take left-leaning podcaster Ryan Shead, for example. He posted this on X over the weekend, and it sums up the “thinking” of a lot of people.

If I’m wrong about gun control, the worst thing that happens is minimal public shootings and saved lives.

If Republicans are wrong about gun control, the school shootings will increase and no one will be safe in public as gun sales in America triples year-over-year.

Brown… pic.twitter.com/QUyp4s1nPR

— Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) December 14, 2025

The post continues: 

Brown University is on the NRA and GOP.

Except that’s not the worst thing that will happen if Shead is wrong about gun control. That’s not even close to the worst thing that can or will happen.

The worst that can happen is absolute chaos on the streets of America.

See, we’ve been seeing a downward trend in violent crime over the last few years, all since the Bruen decision. Mass shootings are down, even by the Gun Violence Archive’s bat-guano insane definition. Brown is high profile, sure, but it’s also not part of a particularly violent year in the United States. 

This is also while more states have embraced constitutional carry.

So, we’re seeing a downward trend in violence, and one that could well be attributed to a liberalization of gun laws. Take that way, and the trend reverses itself.

Suddenly, instead of minimal impact on mass shootings, you see more mass public shootings. You see more homicides across the board, with guns or with other weapons. You see regular people no longer able to defend themselves in their homes from violent criminals who want to take their stuff and their lives.

In fact, if you look at the homicide rate after the passage of the Gun Control Act, murders increased. The idea that gun control passing can’t have a negative impact on the nation isn’t born out by the facts, and for Shead to pretend otherwise is either ignorant or disengenuous. 

Yet a lot of people actually do make similar claims. They’re convinced they’re right, but they’re also convinced that the implications of them getting it wrong are so minimal that there’s no risk in trying it anyway.

That’s simply not true, but the result of a kind of Ivory Tower elitism that boggles the mind. They’ve never been subject to crime before. They’ve never woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of gunshots just a few doors down. They’ve never seen someone popping off shots at a neighbor over a dispute. They’ve never been powerless when terrible things are happening.

They’ve never experienced that kind of terror are are convinced that their experiences are somehow the norm for everyone, even while lecturing people to “check their privilege.”

The worst that can happen if we pass gun control isn’t just a shrug because nothing changed. Oh no, the worst that can happen is that thousands lose their lives because they couldn’t defend themselves from a criminal element now empowered by these policies.

Hard. Freaking. Pass.

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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