Supporters of gun control have, to quote Ricky Ricardo, ‘some ‘splainin’ to do.”
After all, wherever there is gun control in America, there are… extraordinary… maybe even “amazing” results.
Remember, though, those words don’t indicate how they are extraordinary and amazing. I really don’t think that anti-2A activists would use those terms. Certainly not when you bring up the results that we’re talking about today about the 4th of July weekend in Chicago, Illinois. Justin Kaufmann with Axios writes,
The mass shooting in River North that claimed four lives and injured 14 others was the start of a violent Fourth of July weekend in Chicago.
That’s pretty awful, isn’t it?
Yes, yes, it is. But that’s not even remotely all of it. Kaufmann continues:
There were at least three mass shootings in Chicago from Wednesday to Saturday night.
In addition to the River North shooting, seven people were injured from a shooting in Back of the Yards late Friday night, while four people were injured in a shooting near the Cook County Courthouse early Saturday morning.
A mass shooting is classified as a shooting that kills or injures more than four people.
No arrests have been made in any of those shootings yet.
The fact of the matter is that these statistics are extraordinary and amazing in absolutely the most tragic way.
Those are the statistics that we don’t want.
Yet, gun control advocates keep pushing for policies that make these kinds of horrible statistics not only possible but common.
Do you know where they don’t have gun crime statistics like the ones above? In states where legal gun ownership is common. In states where people are familiar with, respect, own, and use firearms as part of life for hunting, recreation, and self-protection purposes.
In states where firearms are tools used ni normal life and living by people other than just law enforcement and criminals, in those states, violent crime is lower. And that’s because criminals know that the person that they want to victimize could very well be a person who can fight back.
It may sound counterintuitive tho those who haven’t thought through the issue of gun control in light of human nature and reality, but the fact of the matter is that gun control makes the world more dangerous, not less, and anyone who actually wants to make the world a better place should stop pretending that it is otherwise.
