IF you pay attention to politics in Washington, you’ve probably heard Biden’s Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, say that any reports about Biden being physically or mentally unfit for office are false and that any videos showing that Biden is unfit are deep fakes, meaning that they are very realistic fakes for the purpose of spreading misinformation.
In light of Biden’s performance in the debate against Trump and his withdrawal from the 2024 Presidential race, it would seem that Jean-Pierre is who was spreading misinformation.
But using that same meaning for the term “deep fake,” we have to ask if a recent report out of California (of course) isn’t really just an anti-2A deep fake instead of a failure in their gun control policies? Jill McLaughlin writes,
Federal authorities arrested six men suspected of carrying out a nine-month burglary spree using a stolen car to ram into Southern California stores to steal over 300 firearms, the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office announced July 16.
The men are being held in state custody and are charged with conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal licensee.
McLaughlin continues:
Federal officials say suspects allegedly stole 312 guns during the crime spree and sold them on the black market. The firearms were later found in the possession of others during unconnected criminal investigations, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
So, California’s gun control laws didn’t stop hundreds of guns from being stolen and sold on the black market?
That can’t be possible! After all, gun control laws actually prevent criminals from getting their hands on guns! This has to be a deep fake!
Unless gun control laws don’t work on criminals because criminals, by definition, don’t obey laws.
My money, though, is on California Governor Gavin Newsom completely skipping addressing how this is the failure of gun control that it is. It doesn’t fit the narrative that he wants to put forth to push his anti-2A agenda.
But make no mistake: This was a massive failure in California’s gun control laws. No different than any of the other thousands and thousands of failures of gun control laws.
Because gun control doesn’t work, and saying that it does is what is misinformation.