They Want Control: Guns are the Latest Excuse

By Rob Morse

They Want Control: Guns are the Latest Excuse
They Want Control: Guns are the Latest Excuse
Slow Facts
Slow Facts

Southern California –(Ammoland.com)  Did you read the headline about the good guy with a gun who stopped the bad guy with a gun?

The story was in the small town papers, but these stories seldom make the national news.  They simply aren’t the sort of stories the big media needs. 

First, nothing beats tears and angst to help the big media deliver an audience to their advertisers.  Second, the good guy story doesn’t fit the narrative of helpless people who need the state to take care of them.  It doesn’t fit the story of more gun-control. The big media ignores the dozens of armed self-defense stories each month.

The latest example of this pandering was David Letterman railing against civilian gun ownership.   He said we need gun-control to stop mass murder.  Letterman and Anderson Cooper conveniently ignored that most of our violent crimes, including assault and murder with a firearm, are committed by a few thousand career criminals.  They rejected the solutions that work.  They ignore self-defense and incarceration of repeat offenders.

There are more examples of the gun-control bias.  The spokeswoman of Moms Demand Action said that civilians don’t stop mass shooters.  To quote her directly at 7:23 in this video, she said,

“This (armed defense) has never happened. Data shows it doesn’t happen.”

She lies badly and often.  Civilians are much more effective at stopping mass shootings than are the police for a very obvious reason.  Civilians have the huge advantage of time since civilians are usually the first ones on the scene.  Fatalities drop by 85 percent when a civilian intervenes rather than waiting many minutes for the police to arrive.

Here are the statistics if you want proof.  If you want to read the stories example by example, then look here for the last ten times that civilians stopped mass murder.  Look here for the cases in the United States going back to 1949 if you remain unconvinced that civilians stop violent attacks!

The gun-grabbers say they simply want to stop the crazy people from getting guns.  They want to arrest the mentally ill for the violent acts the mentally ill have not committed yet.  If you take the gun-grabbers seriously, then you could remind them that mental illness is a sad and unpredictable part of the human condition.  If you think the gun-grabbers are simply playing the politics of gun-control, then you could remind them that the anti-gun US Senate deliberately tabled legislation to fund mental health programs after the Sandy Hook murders.  Instead, the gun-grabbers doubled down on gun-control laws after this latest murder.  They ignored their failed gun-control policy and the history of increase of violence where we serve up disarmed victims to the criminals and the crazies.

We know what works.  The victims need a good guy with a gun to defend them.  The editor of the law enforcement magazine Police One agrees.  He wrote an article “Mass Killers: Gun Control is Not the Answer- The fault is in the killers not in their chosen weapons.”   Here is one excerpt about the latest mass murderer in California.

“.. for lack of a better word, this guy (the murderer) was “evil.” What made him that way is a question for psychologists and neurologists.  But evil is a hard thing to treat and an even harder thing to contain.. On the day he was born you could have taken away every gun from every law-abiding American and outlawed the manufacture and sale of guns and this killer would have still found a way to leave his mark.  I think this young man was just consumed by hate and had a compulsion to kill.”

He is right.  I know it and so do you.

Tell the anti-gunners they are wrong. ~_~_ About Rob Morse: By day, Rob Morse works as a mild mannered engineer for a Southern California defense contractor. By night he writes about gun rights at Ammoland, at Gun Rights Magazine, Clash Daily and on his SlowFacts blog.   He is an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.

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jimpeel

Jenn, “The US is more lenient when it comes to those things and surprise, the US has fatal car accident rates three times higher than Germany (no, not talking about the sheer numbers, talking about rates. Americans die three times more often in car accidents than Germans).” The rate of vehicle ownership is far higher in the United States than in Germany. Look at the per capita ownership rate for vehicles in both countries: United States 797/1,000 Germany 572/1,000 Now, extrapolate that by the populations of both countries: United States 303,922,000 in a country of 9,600,000 million square kilometers. Germany… Read more »

Jarhead6541

Jenn–You claim only a small percentage of gun homicides are gang related. That’s not what the evidence shows. National Institute of Justice; Gun-related homicide is most prevalent among gangs and during the commission of felony crimes. In 1980, the percentage of homicides caused by firearms during arguments was about the same as from gang involvement (about 70 percent), but by 1993, nearly all gang-related homicides involved guns (95 percent), whereas the percentage of gun homicides related to arguments remained relatively constant. The percentage of gang-related homicides caused by guns fell slightly to 92 percent in 2008, but the percentage of… Read more »

Jenn

Sorry, but you are just wrong. Please educate yourself and have a look at the FBI crime stats. They list perpetrator, victims, age, gender, race, circumstances, (if known motive), perpetrator/victim relation and weapon used in detail. The stats show that the overwhelming majority of homicides are committed with guns and that only a relatively small part is gang related. The majority is actually people killing relatives, intimates (spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend), friends, aquaintances and colleagues in crimes of passion, out of jealousy, greed (money) or in fight that escalated. So sorry but the harsh reality is that people are unpredictable and some… Read more »

Phil

The last time, where was it?
Walmart?
An armed civilian challenged the shooter and was killed.

Let me finish.

THE ARMED CIVILIAN HESITATED!

When he had the chance to shoot, he didn’t!
You can not take a guman alive!!

You get the chance, you shoot to kill!

Non of that herro BS of taking him alive!

You do it naturally. You kill the SOB!

Phil

Bloomberg’s OCD working overtime with his Brooklyn Bridge march.

NY Daily News
Staten Island gun buyback gets 31 firearms off the streetsThe NYPD-sponsored program, held at the Central Family Life Center in Stapleton, brought in 15 revolvers, seven semi-automatic pistols and a nine rifles and

Next its knives
Machete-wielding madman slashes three men outside Brooklyn catering hall Two groups got into a fight inside the Afika House on Bedford Ave. in Flatbush.