Gun-control zealots are taking a shotgun approach – pun intended – toward reaching their goal of disarming the citizenry.
Their plan is to use every high-profile incident as a pretense to fire random, multi-pellet rounds and hope that something registers.
If the shooter is white, as in Buffalo, it’s clearly racism running rampant among white males.
If the shooter is Hispanic, with hints of various fetishes, as in the Texas school shooting, it’s about saving the children.
If the shooter is black, as in Tulsa, and his primary target is a black doctor, the cry is the all-purpose taking guns out of the hands of the masses.
If the shooter is black and elderly, and manages to get off 23 shots while wounding just 10 (13 more were injured by inhaling smoke bombs or getting caught up in the panic rush to exit) as in New York’s subway shooting, the incident is pretty much shoved aside due to lack of agenda usefulness.
By way of comparison, you probably heard relatively little about the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, in which nine people were killed and more than 50 were shot, according to a report from a Chicago NBC affiliate TV station. This was in a number of separate incidents, but still you’d think it wouldn’t be accepted as the unfortunate business as usual that it is.
One song being sung by the anti-gun choir of late is to raise age limits to purchase a gun, noting that 18-year-olds aren’t mature enough to handle the responsibility.
OK, then 18-year-olds certainly aren’t old enough to join the armed forces and handle various weaponry. It follows that age 18 certainly is not old enough to be drafted into the armed forces against one’s will should this again become necessary.
While we’re at it, let’s repeal the 26th Amendment, which gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Obviously they are not mentally equipped on the maturity front to make such vital decisions.
How about making 21 the mandatory driving age? And why allow 18-year-olds to enter into legally binding contracts?
Why allow “children” much younger than 18 to get abortions, sexual-gender reassignment counseling, or drug counseling without parents being informed?
On the topic of driving, online figures indicate 2,738 deaths of those between the ages of 13 and 19 in motor vehicle crashes in 2020. Obviously all those weren’t driving, but I think many if not most were.
Indisputable is the fact that younger drivers are more dangerous to themselves and to others. This same online article noted that the fatal crash rate per mile driven for those ages 16 to 19 is three times the rate for drivers 20 and over.
When’s the last time you heard outrage over teen driving deaths, or calls to raise the age limit to drive or buy cars?
Blaming guns is the simplistic solution, one easily made without giving the matter deep consideration and instead opting to go for cheap politicization. It’s the triumph of emotionalism over rational thought.
The collapse of parenting in this country (as in the case of the Tulsa shooter), the failure of our legal system to identify and incarcerate criminals (as in the case of numerous mass shootings) and the ineptitude of our mental health system, which tends to look the other way when tough decisions need to be made, all share responsibility.
How many times must we read of deranged mass shooters pontificating on social media about their plans before the fact? How many times must we read of them being reported to various authorities, with no action taken?
To repeat from an earlier post here, if you make it difficult or impossible for average law-abiding citizens to own guns, you guarantee that they will be unarmed if and when a criminal not following those laws uses a gun to attack or rob them.
Clueless Joe Biden is scheduled go on the air later tonight to bumble his way through an address on gun violence.
While you listen, remember this is the brain donor who once said a double-barrelled shotgun is all a homeowner needs for defense. The Clueless one said that antiquated weapon provided the opportunity for a warning shot and one defensive shot.
Good luck with that plan, Clueless Joe. Do your Secret Service agents carry double-barrelled shotguns? Just asking.
More recently, Joe went on a half-baked tirade against 9-millimeter guns claiming they are “high-caliber” and 9mm bullets “blow the lung out of the body.”
Those who know about guns, frequently question the stopping power of a 9mm. You want to talk “high-caliber” talk .45 acp, a gun designed for the military, with upgraded stopping power from the previously standard .38-caliber sidearm.
Then there are guns such as .44 magnums, made famous by the Clint Eastwood “Dirty Harry” movie. That gun and its round would blow a lung of the victim out of the body.
While a 9mm is not overly powerful, it is the most popular handgun for self-defense, so if you can outlaw 9mm weapons, you have effectively given criminals freedom to rape and pillage without having to fear being shot, albeit not having their “lung blown out of their body.”
Were Biden to get his way, we’d be reduced to owning BB guns — if he could get past the rantings of his handlers about us shooting our eyes out.
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