Gun violence is a horrible, horrible thing. No sane, rational person actually wants gun violence to occur. No sane, rational person actually wants people seriously injured or killed (whether with a firearm or not). So, when I ask who is really to blame for gun violence, that isn’t meant as a trick question or a rhetorical question. No, it’s a question that people should be asking but usually are not.
So, we’re going to ask it today.
Of course, the anti-2A side of this gun discussion argues that legal gun owners directly or indirectly are to blame for gun violence. After all (they argue), if legal gun owners didn’t have guns, then, criminals wouldn’t be able to get them. Or they say that legal gun owners are actually who are committing violence.
Is that even remotely true, though?
No, the actual truth is that criminals are the people to blame for gun violence. And anti-2A people are guilty of enabling and empowering criminals in causing gun violence by preventing people who would like to be legal gun owners from being able to arm themselves in order to scare off criminals or from being able to actually defend themselves with the same tools that violent criminals already have at their disposal.
There is another way that anti-2A people like Democrat nominee Kamala Harris are guilty of aiding and abetting criminals, including those who commit gun violence. Cortney Weil writes,
Now, some outlets are attempting to obscure Harris’ record once again, this time about her support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a nonprofit that posted bail for violent rioters in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020.
“If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” Harris posted on June 1, 2020, to her personal account on the platform then known as Twitter.
The tweet has never been taken down, and a similar post to Harris’ personal Facebook account likewise remains active.
Two weeks after issuing those posts, she hinted on an appearance with late-night host Stephen Colbert that she knew many protesters had engaged in violence but that she still supported their actions. “Everyone beware because they’re not gonna stop,” she told Colbert. “… Everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up — and they should not. And we should not.”
Weil continues:
But of course, the Minnesota Freedom Fund did ultimately collect some $41 million, a small percentage of which was used to bail out protesters, violent or otherwise. According to Fox News, the vast majority of the group’s funds were actually spent bailing out other violent suspects, including a man with a criminal record who went on to murder a man just a few weeks after the fund sprang him from jail.
On August 5, 2021, George Howard, a then-48-year-old man with a criminal record, was arrested in connection with an alleged domestic assault. Thanks to bond money from the Minnesota Freedom Fund, however, Howard was back out on the streets less than a week later.
By August 29, he was back behind bars, this time for gunning down 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz following a road-rage incident that took place along I-94 in Minneapolis. Howard later pled guilty and is currently serving a 15-year sentence.
That’s right, those on the political side of the spectrum who advocate for gun control are the ones who actively bailed out violent protesters including those who went on to commit further violent crimes, including murder.
So, who is responsible for gun violence in America? Criminals and the anti-2A zealots who give aid and support to criminals allowing them to commit crimes again and again.
This is the untold truth of gun control that the American people deserve to hear because the American people deserve to know who is really to blame.
Sorry – the mythical “gun violence” term is just that – a myth. Violence is a result of action(s) by people. It is NOT dependent on what inanimate object is used or even hands/feet/knees/elbows or any other body part. Remember that Mike Royko – as anti-gun as they came – finally figured that out. His ‘epiphany’ was from a report about a toilet seat being used to beat someone to death.
Using mythical (made up) terms is a favorite tactic from the left to keep from placing the blame where it belongs – on the person that commits a violent act.
the “pubic serpents” that the slaves to the state, are FORCED to pay for, are the ones causing the LAWLESSNESS. They are not obeying the law, or the oath they take to be a pubic serpent. Thw whole system is corrupt and useless. IT is the reason we separated from England in 1776, AND the reason Southerners separated from the abuse in 1861. RED states should have separated a long time ago, Defund the unGREATful SOCIETY and the Gestapo (Dept. of JUST US (communist) FIBbers, CIA, ATF, DOE, IRS and all the other abusers
If one were to be honest about the source of not just gun violence, but crime in general they would find that the vast majority of those committing it are from a fatherless home‼️‼️😳🤔
Personally I think violent videos, desensitize young people from right and wrong. There’s no adult figure in the child’s life to mentor and beat us, but if he needs it.
Single parent families, particularly with a female, aren’t there necessarily to instruct a child. Mamas want to be friends with her kids that can only happen after they mature.
That’s just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.
If any crime is committed with a gun automatic 10Years in Prison for using a gun? Then sentence them to further time in prison for the crime that was committed! Commit Murder death penalty within 6 months of crime??? and no 15 Years later due to all the repeals ect!
Define “gun violence”.
Sorry – the mythical “gun violence” term is just that – a myth. Violence is a result of action(s) by people. It is NOT dependent on what inanimate object is used or even hands/feet/knees/elbows or any other body part.
BINGO! (No more entries, please).
Can someone please identify the guns that are violent in “gun violence?” What is there about these inanimate objects that permits them to be independently violent? Obviously, the terminology here is improperly directed.
This entire Conversation is hilarious, When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Guns !
An armed society is a polite society…K.A.N.
As Slick Willy, the First Black President said(paraphrase)”It’s The Criminal Stupid!