“Guns are the problem.”
“No, people are the problem.”
That’s the gun control debate in a nutshell. What’s more, there’s not likely to be any change in the foreseeable future. Pro-gun folks aren’t going to suddenly embrace gun control, unless our name is Trey Gowdy, and anti-gunners aren’t likely to recognize that bad people do bad things with non-firearms all the time, too.
So, we’re at an impasse.
But Larry Keane of the NSSF is calling out anti-gunners for their double standards. While they’re so focused on guns, they completely ignore criminals.
Years ago, Wilmington, Delaware, was deemed “murder town” for the surges in crime and criminal firearm violence. It’s abundantly clear there is a criminal issue at hand.
But the issue isn’t with firearms or law-abiding Delaware gun owners. It’s fundamentally a crime issue and should be focused on how criminals illegally and illicitly obtain firearms.
Rep. McBride ignored that part, thinking criminals weren’t so much the problem.
Instead, the Member of Congress suggested crime could be solved by layering on more gun control laws.
“We are only as safe as our nearest neighbor with lax gun laws,” Rep. McBride said.
States like Delaware, California, Illinois or New York – already have gun control advocates in office who think the answer for everything is to create stricter legislation, along with taking firearms away.
The problem is that stricter gun laws only impact those who respect and follow the law. Criminals, by definition, don’t concern themselves with laws.
Rep. McBride’s, and the others in the Delaware gun control cabal, believe in strict gun control but don’t consider that those laws only keep law-abiding Americans from being able to buy and own firearms, fully exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Again, criminals aren’t following the laws – they’re going to get firearms any way they can.
Criminals aren’t subjecting themselves to FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473. Overwhelmingly, criminals obtain firearms through theft or the black market.
Bingo.
The truth is that anti-gunners tend to look superficially at any data that can support their cause, then delve deeper and deeper into any data that goes against it. No study is perfect, of course, but it’s funny how ridiculous their claims can be, especially as simple common sense should indicate that criminals aren’t buying guns lawfully.
They’re simply not.
But law-abiding citizens are still catching the blame. “We are only as safe as our nearest neighbor with lax gun laws,” McBride claims, yet how many guns flow into criminal hands that aren’t actually the result of any so-called lax gun laws?
Criminals steal them. They buy stolen guns from others. They get someone with a clean criminal record to buy them in their stead. They don’t waltz into a gun store and get them. They largely don’t even get them via face-to-face transfers, even, so how is it that every other state is responsible for Delaware’s problems?
It’s the criminals, but anti-gunners ignore that.
They ignore, for example, that the spike in homicides also came right after they started being weak on criminals via cashless bail and running them out of jail as fast as they could over COVID fears. They ignore that every time they crack down on criminals, the homicide rate drops and when they loosen their position on crime, it goes back up.
Yes, it’s correlation, not causation necessarily, but they have no issue with correlation, so why can’t they see this one?
Because they don’t care about crime. They care about taking your rights away.
Editor’s note: Gun control activists all across the nation engage in this sort of double-speak all the time, and the mainstream media not just lets them, but celebrates them for it.
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