"Of course gun control works," any anti-gun advocate will tell you. They'll even point out what they claim are examples of how a state passed a law and a certain effect not only happened, but only happened because of the gun control laws.
Which makes no sense at all.
Still, anti-gun states continue to push more and more regulations on residents and claim they're all essential to stopping various acts of violence.
Then, when something shatters the carefully crafted illusion, anti-gunners opt to deflect the blame.
Remember when restaurants had smoking and non-smoking sections? A table just a few feet away could be filled with people smoking like chimneys while you’re “safely” seated in the non-smoking section coughing your lungs out. It was a joke.
We all knew at the time that deadly smoke didn’t magically stop at some imaginary line, and we all still breathed the same air. It drifted across the room, into the vents, and right into the lungs of people who wanted nothing to do with it.
That’s exactly how weak state gun laws work today. When one state makes it easy for dangerous people to buy guns, those guns don’t stay there. In fact, gun traffickers flock to them. Those guns then cross borders and end up in places with elected leaders who are trying to keep their communities safe.
This is not conjecture — it’s common sense. And it cost four New Yorkers their lives only weeks ago on Park Ave.
States that provide easy access to guns are exporting crime to other states and innocent people are dying because of it. Last month, a man with a history of serious mental health issues easily obtained multiple guns, drove across the country, and carried out a deadly mass shooting with a high powered weapon in the center of Manhattan. How? Nevada’s laws are weaker than New York’s.
The op-ed, titled "Only national gun control can protect Americans," was written by Chris Harris from Giffords, so you know he's too vested in gun control to do anything but try to push it, yet still...
If state gun control doesn't protect Americans, why bother with it at all? Why does New York need an assault weapon ban like the SAFE Act? Why do they need so many other anti-gun measures? Why do so many other states like California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, and so on?
These were laws that were passed with the claim that they would save lives.
When it didn't, we got Harris trying to claim that of course it wouldn't. That's why we need even more gun control laws, those that impact states that aren't having a particular problem and those that have passed their own alike.
He clearly can't acknowledge that no, statewide gun control is never really going to work to stop dangerous people from getting guns. He can't because that would be brought up time and time again when Giffords backs some state-level gun control law.
Yet if those don't work, that only national gun control can save us, why do they keep pushing for them? Because they just don't want you having guns. They don't want you to be in a position to protect yourself.
They want you dependent on the state for everything, all while the state is already unable to do enough to protect us.
Frankly, Harris needs to learn to deal with disappointment. The laws he favored failed. He should just man up and admit it, but then again, he works for Giffords, so...
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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