Violent crime is a problem. It’s not as bad as it was a few years ago, but it’s worse than it was a handful of years before that, so yeah, it’s an issue.
One of the big problems with it, though, is that we can’t have a rational discussion about it. First, some people seem to be unable to think of violent crime as an issue of violence or criminality, but a gun issue.
They have to talk about “gun violence” at every opportunity, ignoring that violent crime can involve a plethora of other weapons, or no weapons at all.
Then we have the issue of how they seem to be unable to understand that not everyone agrees with them on how to address it.
A headline out of Kentucky made that perfectly clear. It reads, “Shocked and praying again, Kentucky lawmakers have a long record of doing nothing about gun violence.”
At approximately noon on Sunday, July 13, 47-year-old Guy House shot and wounded a Kentucky State Police officer near Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, then carjacked a vehicle and drove several miles to a small church on Old Richmond Road, where he shot two women to death and wounded two men.
House was scheduled to appear at a domestic violence hearing the next day; he had a lengthy criminal record dating back more than two decades, which included possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; he repeatedly violated his probation.
And still, House had a gun.
So House, a convicted felon, skirted federal firearm laws to obtain a firearm–something he couldn’t legally do in any state or US territory–and this is a problem of a lack of gun control?
How?
Are drugs a problem because we don’t have enough drug laws? Is drunk driving an issue because we don’t have enough drunk driving laws?
Or are those things issues because people break the law?
Most people don’t think there are insufficient drug laws or drunk driving laws. They accept, though, that some people will break those laws.
The author clearly doesn’t, as we’ll see.
Per the statistics at Everytown for Gun Safety, “Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the country, and the state has one of the higher rates of gun violence in the nation. Kentucky has none of the foundational policies in place — after legislators repealed its concealed carry permitting requirement in 2019.”
So let’s talk about the most recent conversation at our state legislature regarding concealed carry.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on March 6, Sen. Aaron Reed presented Senate Bill 75 to lower the age to carry a concealed firearm from 21 to 18.
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Our lawmakers are shocked, heartbroken, praying. And yet, year after year after year, these same lawmakers dismiss the advice of their own experts — like Sen. Carroll — and refuse to so much as consider bills to make Kentuckians safer from gun violence.
But they are.
See, contrary to what the author tries to suggest, the pro-gun measures Kentucky has proposed are about violent crime. They’re all about safety from so-called gun violence.
They’re just not measures she thinks will make us safer.
Now, it’s fine for her to feel that way. People have a right to feel however they want to feel about bits of legislation.
What she doesn’t get to do is pretend that somewhere deep down, we all secretly agree with her and are just choosing to do evil things for the sake of being evil or something.
She can’t seem to grok that people don’t have to agree on how to approach community safety. The truth of the matter is that Everytown has a standard for gun laws that is based on its own agenda. Kentucky’s violent crime rate went up at the same time pretty much everyone else’s went up, right around the time of the pandemic. That increase happened even in the most anti-gun states in the nation, which suggests something else was going on.
But what Kentucky has opted to do is allow people to have the means to defend themselves. They don’t need the state to prohibit them from doing things that might allow them to better protect themselves and their families.
That’s how they intend to address the issue of violence.
And I’m kind of sick of people assuming that we somehow agree with them and are just doing the “wrong” thing for some other nefarious reason.
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