It is always tragic when someone is murdered. Always.
And there’s no ambiguity about that. We’re not talking about a self-defense action which causes the attacker to die.
We’re talking murder, someone being killed intentionally for a reason other than saving a life (or actual war situations in which militaries are fighting).
Murder is horrible.
But murder just blocks from a police station in a city in a state that makes it incredibly difficult to be able to effectively defend yourself from attackers is just infuriating.
After all, if gun control actually worked, if gun control was actually about saving lives, then gun violence wouldn’t happen in areas with strict gun control.
A recent shooting in Chicago, though, exposes the lie that is gun control. Paul Sacca writes,
A Chicago father was broadcasting live video on Facebook in front of family and friends when he was shot and killed.
Kevin Watson, 42, parked his car in the city’s South Austin neighborhood and was livestreaming inside his vehicle around 6:14 p.m. Wednesday.
Watson is heard talking about a parking dispute he had experienced earlier before becoming alarmed, putting up his hands, and asking, “What’s up, bro? What’s up?”
He then says, “Hell, nah!”
Watson exits his car, and what sounds like a physical confrontation occurs just outside the vehicle — and beyond the view of the video camera in his car.
Seconds later, a single gunshot rings out. The audio of the video then goes eerily silent.
Soon the door of another vehicle is heard slamming shut, after which the sound of a car driving away is audible.
This should not have happened.
Anywhere.
This should never happen.
But it does, and statistically, it is more likely to happen in a city with strict gun control than in other places.
Yet, activists continue to push gun control pretending that it will save lives.
It doesn’t.
It didn’t save this father’s life.
And gun control activists need to own up to the fact that their efforts are at least partially responsible for murders like this because those efforts prevent innocent people from being able to protect themselves from criminals.
