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Gun Control’s Endgame: No Guns for Anyone
RealClear Politics ^ | 12 Mar, 2026 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 03/12/2026 6:27:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Gun control advocates do not just oppose civilian gun ownership; they also argue that guns in the hands of police make people less safe.

In January, a Border Patrol agent in Portland shot and wounded two Venezuelan nationals who belonged to the violent Tren de Aragua gang after they allegedly tried to run agents over with their vehicle. In response, Kris Brown, president of Brady United, tweeted the following:

“We don’t know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland. But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday Americans, guns do not make us safer. Yet Trump is reshaping our country based on this lie.”

What were the Border Patrol agents supposed to do when an illegal alien with a criminal record tries to run over an agent? How are unarmed agents supposed to apprehend and detain violent gang members?

Currently on its website, Brady United explains: “Why Police violence is gun violence … As we work to tackle the gun violence epidemic in America, we cannot ignore police violence or its devastating effects.”

The same claim is made repeatedly by other gun control groups.

“Police violence is gun violence and that’s why our movement must be responsive as well,” declares Shannon Watts, president for Moms Demand Action.

“Police violence is gun violence,” proclaims Gabby Giffords, with the Giffords Law Center.

These last two statements are from 2021 and 2020, so their opposition to police having guns isn’t a new focus.

Gun control groups sometimes openly acknowledge their goal of banning all guns. In a 2023 interview with Time magazine, for example, Gabby Giffords – who heads the Giffords Law Center – answered a question about her goal by saying: “No more guns.”

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1 posted on 03/12/2026 6:27:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The issue is never the issue.

The issue is always the revolution.

2 posted on 03/12/2026 6:28:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Gun control Nutjobs


3 posted on 03/12/2026 6:28:51 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MtnClimber

Except for criminals, of course


4 posted on 03/12/2026 6:29:29 AM PDT by albie
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LOL....no, only guns for those loyal to the rulers.


5 posted on 03/12/2026 6:30:08 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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This article is wrong. Gun control’s endgame isn’t no guns for anyone. Its control. Look at the UK. Once they took everyone’s guns, they moved on to “knife control.” You need an ID to get a sharp knife from Amazon. The endgame for gun control is a defeated, docile population that is easy to control.


6 posted on 03/12/2026 6:33:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber

Iran is Exhibit A for the 2nd amendment. A disarmed populace unable to rise up against an oppressive tyrannical government. This is what the Framers had in mind. Not hunting.


7 posted on 03/12/2026 6:33:22 AM PDT by wny
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To: MtnClimber

The police DID NOT SHOOT GABBY GIFFORDS. She’s more retarded than her POS husband.


8 posted on 03/12/2026 6:33:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are "Y'all" and "All Y'all". )
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To: MtnClimber

Well, yes.

Once that obstacle is out of the way, all their other authoritarian dreams become possible. This has been the way of the fallen world since time began.


9 posted on 03/12/2026 6:36:07 AM PDT by larrytown (I will not be rage-baited.)
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“From my cold, dead hands.”


10 posted on 03/12/2026 6:41:17 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She was shot by a crazy man who would have been in a mental institution had they not been closed down in the 1970s.

Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? I remember three mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/

Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.
Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.
Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.
Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies declared “sane” enough to walk the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.
Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies declared “sane” and dumped on the streets.
ALL CRAZIES allowed to roam the streets...
Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon
John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan
Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer
David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.
Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.
Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.
Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.
James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds
This is just a SHORT LIST of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.
When you add the MASS MURDERERS, CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is...
LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!
Now we can add another name, Decarlos Brown Jr. who knifed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
Nick Reiner who is accused of murdering his parents Rob Reiner and wife with a knife.
Antonio R. Moore killed Rita Loncharich, 65. Knifed by a crazy.
Lemar Beasley who stabbed Cheyenne Kastens, stabbed 40 times.


11 posted on 03/12/2026 6:49:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: MtnClimber

Welcome to Iran.


12 posted on 03/12/2026 6:51:06 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

To your list I would add every living tranny. They are mental defects. Every one of them. And probable future mass murders.


13 posted on 03/12/2026 6:52:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: MtnClimber

One of the first moves by the NAZI party was to remove guns from the German people....


14 posted on 03/12/2026 6:54:31 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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“IF you think government is overbearing now just wait until you are completely disarmed” applies. Do many Americans are completely ignorant of what history has shown to be absolutely the truth... complete government control of guns always leads to a dictatorship.


15 posted on 03/12/2026 7:06:46 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Bolsheviks were the same. Stalin once said “We don’t let them have ideas, why would we let them have guns?”.

Leftists don’t hate guns, they hate you. They love guns, they just don’t want the huddled masses to be able to resist their depredations. Same as any collectivist, totalitarian regime.


16 posted on 03/12/2026 7:09:06 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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If we didn’t have guns we’d be the UK right now.


17 posted on 03/12/2026 7:12:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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The issue is never the issue.

The issue is always the revolution.

That is EXACTLY what is going on. We are in the middle of a full-blown revolution. And, many people on the conservative, God-fearing side do NOT see it. If anyone thinks a compromise can be reached with these folks, you are so beyond wrong, it is impossible to help you. If this nation does not turn back to God (who will have a solution for this), we are doomed as a nation.

18 posted on 03/12/2026 7:17:15 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yep.


19 posted on 03/12/2026 7:18:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

“IF you think government is overbearing now just wait until you are completely disarmed” applies. Do many Americans are completely ignorant of what history has shown to be absolutely the truth... complete government control of guns always leads to a dictatorship.


20 posted on 03/12/2026 7:19:10 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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