As mature adults, we’re supposed to take the high road, to rise above the petty and be the better man or woman in the situation.
Sometimes, though, the temptation is just too great, and I find myself reveling in the gloating over an ironic “self-own” than an anti-2A zealot does to their cause.
Admit it, you’ve done it, too, haven’t you? Just enjoyed the irony a bit. At least until you realize that you should pray and ask forgiveness for your smugness… Or maybe that’s just me.
On the other hand, you may be just fine enjoying some smugness over the irony of an anti-2A advocates sabotaging the arguments for their cause, especially when they don’t realize it.
If that’s you, then you’ll appreciate today’s story. Oliver Mantyk writes,
Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated the state’s Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) initiative, which bolsters local policing, for lowering the number of shootings in the Mid-Hudson area and around New York.
Now, I have no problem giving congratulations where they are due. Reducing the number of shootings is a good thing.
But then you get into the details of how it reduced the number of shootings. Mantyk continue:
The program gives $36 million in funding to local police agencies for equipment, overtime, and personnel. It also provides training and technical assistance for hot spot policing, focused deterrence, street outreach, youth engagement, and incorporating procedural justice into law enforcement.
What’s that? It paid for police “overtime” and for “training and technical assistance for hot spot policing?”
That sounds an awful lot like sending good guys with guns specifically into the places where bad guys with guns intend to use said firearms.
You know, the exact same thing that pro-2A advocates have been saying for decades needs to be done to reduce gun violence because it’s the ability to return fire that causes people who would be violent to think twice and to control their evil impulses.
Imagine that. Good people with guns reduces the incidents of evil use of guns by criminals.
Hochul may never admit that truth so plainly, but you and I know the truth.