Gun control is a terrible idea. I know it, and you know it.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are still buying into the idea that it’s not. Quite the contrary, really. Whether they actually buy it or are just trying to spin things so it looks like they’re interested in “doing something” remains to be seen, but they are buying in just the same.
New York City is a big center for this kind of so-called thinking. They’ve foisted it onto the rest of the state, and it’s all been sold as essential to combating violent crime.
But as my friend and New York state native Dan Wos notes at Ammoland, it’s a fatal mistake.
Of course, we always hear the same old argument for gun control after an attack. “We need more gun laws to prevent these violent attacks,” but what if the gun laws are the problem?
The implication of a statement like that is that there are not enough gun laws in place. Anti-gun politicians like New York Governor Kathy Hochul have been pushing this narrative for decades. Yes, there are people in this country, typically those with limited or no firearm knowledge, who fall prey to this type of rhetoric. The constant drumbeat of anti-gun propaganda is important to the gun grabbers because, generation after generation, people become more inclined to adapt to their environment.
If the gun grabbers can create an anti-gun environment, they know that they will be able to eventually eliminate firearms from society, regardless of the 2nd Amendment. As a matter of fact, if society were to shift enough, the 2nd Amendment could be repealed. I know you don’t like hearing that, and I don’t like saying it, but ask yourself, if it were possible to remove any American rights or repeal any Amendment like was done with the 18th Amendment, which was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933, which one do you think would be next on the chopping block?
Every time there are graves to stand on and a tragedy to be exploited, in pursuit of furthering the anti-gun narrative, you can bet there will be a Democrat with a megaphone close by.
Regarding the recent killing in New York City, let’s discuss some of the firearm laws that were in place and subsequently, completely ignored by the killer.
After New York gun owners enjoyed a significant victory in the Bruen case, which recognized New York State gun laws as unconstitutional, Kathy Hochul, the originally appointed Governor, signed into law the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” (CCIA). She did this a mere eight days after the Supreme Court case was decided. This tells us that not only did she and her anti-gun legislature know that they would suffer a massive defeat, but they were also unwilling to accept it. They were preparing for months and possibly years to create new legislation that would undermine the 2nd Amendment again and force gun rights groups to waste more time and money by going back to court and reliving the extensive legal process all over again.
Dan goes on to illustrate the futility of these laws by noting video of two men in that Manhattan office, piling couches in front of the door, all in order to keep the gunman out from where they were.
“No American citizen should be reduced to such a level of helplessness,” Dan wrote, and I happen to agree. It’s such a basic statement, I can’t really understand anyone who wouldn’t agree, though I know they’re out there.
It’s one thing to choose to be in that position. While I think every American can and should exercise their Second Amendment rights, we’re a free country, which means people are also free to not exercise those rights if they wish. That’s perfectly fine.
But these two men had no choice in the matter. Whether they would or wouldn’t have carried a gun is irrelevant, because New York law meant they couldn’t. They were helpless before a killer who had already violated numerous gun control laws in the state.
While officials keep trying to pretend the issue is with federal or Nevada law, as the killer was from that state, the truth is that if gun control worked as advertised, there wouldn’t have been an issue.
It doesn’t.
But those two poor bastards who had to barricade a door in hopes that it would discourage the killer and maybe he’d pick off some of their friends instead? They should never have been forced into a position like that in the first place.
Gun control didn’t save lives. It may have cost them, though. As noted earlier today, uniformed security is a primary target of mass killers, but concealed carriers are generally missed until after the shooting is over. Yet New York thinks they’re the only ones who should have a firearm at all.
So yeah, gun control isn’t just a mistake. It’s a fatal mistake that people keep making over and over again, then ignoring the results.
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