Anti-2A organizations like to make statements about how the world will be safer with gun control in place, but no one in the current administration in the White House or in the legacy mainstream news media ever actually questions those statements.
Now, you and I know why they aren’t questioned, and the reason is that the statements just aren’t true. Even a cursory review of the statistics shows that gun control does absolutely nothing to reduce rates of violence or rates of any crimes, really, and, in many cases, gun control correlates directly with increases in violent crime.
Which is why delusional zealots such as the women at Moms Demand Action need to explain exactly how this happened in a city known for, basically, being a gun control zone. Wim De Gent writes,
A teenage Venezuelan illegal immigrant has been arrested for allegedly shooting two New York Police Department officers after they attempted to stop him while he was riding a scooter.
The two officers were patrolling the 115th precinct to address enduring robberies in the area involving perpetrators on mopeds and scooters when they spotted 19-year-old Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata driving a moped the wrong way down a street at 89th Street and 23rd Avenue in Elmhurst at about 1:40 a.m.
When the police attempted to pull the young man over, he fled on foot, with the two young officers chasing him on foot for several blocks. During the chase, Mr. Castro-Mata produced an illegal firearm, firing multiple rounds at the officers, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, during a Monday press conference.
Officer Christopher Abreu, 26, was shot in the leg, while his partner, Richard Yarusso, also 26, took a hit to his bulletproof vest, which effectively saved his life.
During the fire exchange, the suspect was also hit in the ankle. Once the suspect had been taken out, Mr. Yarusso applied a tourniquet to his partner’s leg to stop the bleeding.
The two junior officers—who joined the force two and five years ago—were released from the hospital several hours after the ordeal. As Mr. Yarusso rolled his partner, Mr. Abreu, out in a wheelchair, they were greeted with applause from colleagues and bystanders.
Thankfully, no one was killed.
But the question still needs to asked: How did an illegal alien, who can’t legally buy a gun in the U.S., have a gun to shoot at police officers in New York City, of all places, where guns are difficult for anyone to get? You would think that it would be even more unlikely that an illegal alien would have a gun in New York City since both their illegal alien status and New York City both make them getting a gun legally very difficult. Double the difficulty in getting that gun.
Moms Demand Action needs to explain how this happened and how any of their proposed policy positions could have prevented it.
But they won’t because they can’t because criminals don’t get guns legally, and that means that, very clearly, gun control doesn’t and can’t work.