Inconvenient Truths About Guns and Gun Control (Virginia)

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Politicians and journalists often portray fiction as fact. It is easy to be opinionated, but hard to be informed. This came to mind as I listened to Virginia Democrats tell us we’d be safer if we were disarmed. What is the truth about gun-control laws? What politicians say a law will do might have nothing to do with what the law actually does. Lives are at stake when gun-control laws fail. Saying that the next gun-control law is necessary to stop violent crime admits that the 23 thousand firearms regulations already on the books didn’t work as advertised. It is a rare politician who admits how limited the government really is when it comes to public safety.

Fortunately, we’ve lived with firearms for several hundred years. We know some things that work. Here are a few inconvenient truths I’ve found after a few decades of study.

Inconvenient Truth: Most gun-related deaths are suicides, not murders. Unfortunately, restrictions on firearms have not reduced the rate of suicide. Fortunately, informed gun owners are reaching out to other gun owners who are dealing with mental illness. Mental health treatment works. We’re changing the gun culture for the better, no thanks to the politicians.

Inconvenient Truth: Most murders with a firearm in the United States are committed by members of criminal gangs. The police know who most of these murderers are. Gun-control laws that restrict the actions of honest gun owners have not changed the actions of known criminals. Most of the young people shot with guns are gang members who were shot by other gang members. Unfortunately, some of the victims are also innocent bystanders or victims of crime. Disarming the innocent victims doesn’t stop the criminals.

Inconvenient Truth: Background checks don’t reduce the rate of violent crime. Criminals don’t buy their guns at gun shops or gun shows. Criminals get their guns the same way they get their drugs; they get them illegally from other criminals. (By the way, there is no gun-show loophole. Every law that applies outside a gun show also applies inside a gun show.)

Inconvenient Truth: Honest gun owners do not cause crime. In fact, licensed concealed carry holders are both more law-abiding and more accurate with their guns than the police. Civilians with a permit to carry a gun in public are the most law-abiding group that sociologists can find.

Inconvenient Truth: Civilian gun ownership is the most cost-effective way to reduce violent crime.

Inconvenient Truth: Owning a gun does not make you more likely to be a victim of violent crime. It is true that people who live in high-crime areas are more likely to want a firearm for personal protection. People tend to be more sensitive about personal safety when someone they know have been victims of violent crime. Gun ownership is often a response to criminal violence rather than the cause of it.

Inconvenient Truth: Criminals don’t often take a person’s gun and hurt them with it. There are more examples of victims disarming criminals than criminals disarming victims.

Inconvenient Truth: A sexual assault almost never becomes rape if the victim is armed. The armed victim is such an uninviting target that the attacker usually runs away once he sees that the victim is armed.

Inconvenient Truth: Criminals don’t fight fair. There are usually several criminals attacking a single victim. We civilians are the first victims of crime. Police are our backup and usually arrive after the fight is over.

Here is one last inconvenient truth: Politicians often exempt themselves from the laws they pass. Some politicians own guns. They must think guns are useful. Some politicians have armed security. They must think guns make them safer. If politicians don’t live by the gun regulations they want for us, then the politicians don’t believe in gun control.

I agree with what these gun-control politicians do even if I disagree with what they say, and that is the truth.

The world isn’t safe. If you don’t believe me, then ask a policeman who deals with criminals every day. The policeman wants a firearm because he lives in a dangerous world. Unfortunately, the average criminal will victimize over 20 civilians before the policeman catches him. That is why you and I need a firearm too. We have to protect ourself and our loved ones until the police arrive, and we only call the police after we’ve been attacked. There is no doubt that self-defense is inconvenient, but I’d rather be inconvenienced now than be a helpless victim later. To make matters worse, you don’t get to pick when you might be attacked. ;-(

[[Saying that the next gun-control law is necessary to stop violent crime]]

They are following the lead of NY who rammed through their unconstitutional gun confiscation laws under the lie of “Imminent Need”

I knew as soon as NY did that that states would follow suit because they don’t actually have to prove what an “Imminent Need” consists of- all they have to do is make the claim that an Imminent Need law is needed

Semi auto arms can be broken down and stored in some very out of the way places. Logistically how many many man hours would it take to search a suburban or rural property for all of the components? Who is going to pay for all these man hours, multiplied by say, 200,000 properties?

And once they have searched maybe a dozen homes, the risk factor for those enforcement patrols would rise to nearly the level of suicide mission.

Look no further than te bio's of most gun grabbers. They have serious ethical and legal issues of their own. Blackface Northram, he's a pup compared to what makes up the gun control movement. And it's the same as it ever was. One of the first gun control laws, the Sullivan Laws in NY from 1911, named for Big Tim Sullivan, a Tammany Hal kingpin even more corrupt than the CLintons. He wanted to make the streets of NYC safe, for him and his cronies, as well as the muggers and gangsters in his back pocket. After all, crime victims who can shoot back are bad for business.
Charles Rangell, never mind his tax evasion issues, that SOB should've been arrested in 1972 for obstructing justice, if not aiding and abetting in the murder of NYPD Officer Philip Cardillo.
The gun violence death clock put up near Times Sq in 1990. The funding for that stunt came from Robert Brennan, a junk bond dealing scam artist who makes Bernie Madoff look like Mother Theresa. Surely he had a pragmatic reason for this "Public service". IF I scammed all those old folks out of their life savings I too would be scared sh!tless if they or their kids or grandkids had easy access to firearms. Just sayin'
Fmr Cong. Leeland Yee, on of the most militant gun control advocates to serve in the House, he was named to the Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll by the Brady Campaign, forced to resign because he's in federal prison for...wait for eet...GUN RUNNING.
Pervy Weinstein said he's making it his mission to destroy the NRA. Why would someone in his situation make such a statement? He's just a symptom, the rampant sex abuse and child molestation in the sleazy world of show biz has been a poorly kept dirty little secret for over 100yrs. No wonder why the overpaid mannequins from Hollywood love to throw their star power behind the gun grabbers.
Fmr NY AG and gun control advocate Eric Sniderman, forced to resign when allegations of sexual battery surfaced. This gun grabber gets off on beating his mistresses senseless, including one who came over from Senegal whom he would hurl racial insults at while slapping her around and another whose jaw he broke before forcing her too....y'all get the idea.
And the hits just keep on coming! Kenneth Glasgow, an ex-con turned gun control activist who, ahem, turned his life around. Or DID he? He's now in the Dothan, AL lockup facing capitol murder charges. After speaking at a March For Our Lives Rally in Birmingham he hooked up with some other thugs, one of whom shot a woman in the face with an ILLEGALLY OBTAINED handgun.
This is the face of gun control. A study in hypocrisy of the worst kind.

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