When it comes to political campaign ads, you don’t really expect to hear tons of facts. You expect to hear exaggeration, emotional language, things to push the undecided to vote in a certain direction. At least, that’s what I remember from previous years’ political ads.
Apparently, that’s no longer the case, though. You can lie, say things are verifiably not true, and that aren’t even remotely in the realm of reality, and people will take it seriously. At least Joe Biden’s campaign seems to think so.
See, Biden recently released a campaign ad that is off the charts with its dishonesty. It’s simply unbelievable (hat tip to here for the lead). John R. Lott, Jr. writes,
President Biden is making gun control a central part of his reelection campaign. In a new ad, Biden says that Trump did “nothing” when children were “gunned down in classrooms,” innocent people “killed in church,” and others “massacred at a concert.”
The Biden campaign is referring to shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas; and an outdoor concert in Las Vegas. In four years, there were 18 mass shootings that occurred in public places and that did not transpire during another crime such as robbery or selling drugs. (A “mass killing” is defined by criminologists as involving four or more fatalities, not counting the shooter.)
But 23 mass public shootings have occurred so far under Biden – a 50% higher annual rate than under Trump. The deadliest shooting resulted in 21 victims at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas – four more than were killed in Parkland.
Besides touting the establishment of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Biden also points to his new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ regulations for background checks on the private transfer of guns. But these additional background checks wouldn’t have prevented any recent mass public shootings. For example, the Uvalde murderer didn’t obtain his gun through a private transfer, and he passed a federal background check. There isn’t one mass shooting in this century that universal background checks would have stopped. But almost no one seems to challenge the Biden campaign’s stance on this issue.
While Biden touts a regulation that won’t accomplish anything other than creating an obstacle to gun ownership and helping to complete a national gun registry, there is evidence that Trump’s proposed reforms could work.
After the Parkland shooting, Trump tweeted: “If schools are mandated to be gun free zones, violence and danger are given an open invitation to enter. Almost all school shootings are in gun free zones. Cowards will only go where there is no deterrent.” Ironically, the Gun-Free School Zones Act was introduced in Congress in 1990 by then-Sen. Joe Biden.
Read that last sentence above again. Joe Biden is who introduced legislation in Congress to create gun-free zones, the places that would-be mass shooters specifically look for in order to kill as many people as possible before themselves being killed. That’s why so many mass shootings happen at schools. Schools, in most areas, are gun-free zones, and, as such, they are targets for people who want to kill other people.
And we should be pointing that out to people: Gun-free zones are what shooters target. Joe Biden helped to create them. Therefore, Joe Biden is responsible for so many mass shootings specifically targeting children and schools.
When you know the truth, it’s would be an almost laughable absurdity to hear Joe Biden pretend to be the one saving lives from gun violence if it weren’t so heartbreaking. Why an absurdity? Because, again, the truth is that he directly helped to create the conditions that made the Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Uvalde school shootings happen that killed so many children.
Supporters of the 2nd Amendment, like you and I, aren’t responsible for gun violence in the U.S. and especially not for mass shootings. Criminals are, and that includes criminals like Joe Biden who directly helped to create the situations that made children easy targets and victims for mass shooters.
