5/28/2022

Guns Aren't The Root Cause Of Mass Shootings

The anti-gunners have been going out of their minds, cranking up their “Guns Kill People!” rhetoric to ‘11’ since Uvalde. They still act as if these inanimate objects can jump up all by themselves and start shooting indiscriminately. People kill people, whether they use a gun, a knife, a baseball bat, explosives, or a shod foot.

The yells of “We gotta do something!” has filled the air and the airwaves. The problem has always been that when that “something” is done it is quite often the wrong thing. That “something” doesn’t do what those screaming for that “something” said it would. Sometimes that “something” does nothing, but makes those who screamed for “something” to be done feel better for having done something. Sometimes that “something” makes things worse than if nothing had been done at all.

The “something” this time is calls to weaken, if not do away with the Second Amendment entirely. Oh, it won’t happen all at once.

First, it will be a call to ban assault rifles. (What it’s really a call for is banning SBRs – Scary Black Rifles.) Of course there is no real definition of ‘assault rifle’, though some folks thing that the ‘AR’ in AR-15 means ‘Assault Rifle’. (It actually stands for Armalite Rifle, for the company that originally made it.)

Then, there will be a call to register all guns.

Then finally, confiscation.

What will the results of those actions be?

Even more mass killings, more murders, more violent crimes, and law abiding citizens left unprotected. With the defunding of police, Progressive DA’s unwilling to prosecute violent criminals, and bail reforms that put violent criminals back on the streets without bail, it would continue to get even worse.

But then, that’s the plan.

They will ignore the real cause of mass shootings: a society that is suffering from mental illness imposed upon us by our Progressive 'betters'.