Why Europeans Should Shut Their Mouths About ‘Gun Violence’ In US

Not a day seems to go by on social media where someone in the US doesn’t get a lecture from a European about how our gun control laws, or lack thereof, are some kind of social rot and that we’re completely wrong for not following their lead.

After all, those deaths from gunfire are preventable, right? How dare we not take those precautions as they did!

Well, I’m sorry that I’m not tripping over myself to “prevent gun deaths” by making it harder to defend myself, while they have people dropping like flies because they can’t handle a mildly warm day. Especially when that inability to get air conditioning kills more people each year in Europe than guns do here in the US.

In Europe, there are more deaths due to a lack of air conditioning than the U.S. has in gun deaths, both in total and on a per-capita basis.

Lack of air conditioning is a bigger threat to life than gun violence.

Where is Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Giffords, Brady, Sandy Hook Promise?

Instead of targeting law abiding gun owners, those groups would save more lives if they demanded everyone have air conditioning. https://t.co/6FRr0cfG5X

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 22, 2026

In 2024, the U.S. saw 44,447 Americans die as a result of gun violence, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And yet in Europe, just between June and September, 62,775 people died as a result of overheating or other heat-related illnesses.

A basic first-world tool like AC is far less common in Europe for a variety of reasons. Electricity costs there are, on average, about two to three times higher than those in the United States, and Europe is generally less willing to use energy-intensive appliances like air conditioning in pursuit of its climate goals. So not only is the continent reliant on foreign adversaries for much of its energy, but the limited energy it does have is not used to prevent heat-related deaths.

Now, we need to keep in mind that heat and cold tolerance are something you adapt to, but it takes time. For us, 79 degrees Fahrenheit is a nice afternoon, in part because so many of us have 90-degree-plus days all summer long. Anything lower than 80 is nice and comfortable.

Europe is mostly at the same latitude as Canada, so they aren’t used to it.

Still, it’s pretty rich that they have more people dying from the heat at levels much higher than our so-called gun violence, both in raw numbers and per capita, and think to lecture us on this.

A freaking cheap window unit that only gets turned on during the worst of the heat would save countless lives, but our European “friends” don’t want to talk about that. They’d rather lecture us about “gun deaths” and how all of our children are going to die in a mass shooting before they graduate.

The thing is, though, we actually are trying to address the violence. The issue is that we can’t agree on how to solve the issue.

Those lecturing us to scold Americans over our gun laws, however, don’t seem to be doing anything to address people dying there due to the warmth we tend to associate with a lovely Spring day.

Until they do that, they need to shut their mouths and mind their own business.

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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