Chris Murphy: School Shootings Aren't Common Enough for Armed Guards

Whenever there's a high-profile shooting, such as what happened at Annunciation Catholic Schools, we start hearing about how common these have become, with manufactured numbers that drive the total up, all designed to scare people into supporting gun control.

The answer from our side is armed school staff or, at a minimum, armed guards in schools.

Now, there's no question about which side of this debate Sen. Chris Murphy falls. He's a noted gun grabber and he's always looking for a gun control angle. We all know it.

But it seems that even he knows that he's been running a line of BS for years.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that he opposed armed guards in schools because he thinks it creates “irrational” fear in children and “you are still more likely in this country to be killed by a falling object than you are in a mass shooting.” But there is an “underlying story about the easy access of guns. And if we just were more careful about who has access to powerful weapons in this country, we would have less need to board up a lot of our public settings.”

Wait, so these are super rare events that we shouldn't stress to the point of putting armed guards in schools because it'll instill fear in children--spoiler: school resource officers are common enough that we'd know if it did, and it doesn't--but we should totally trample our right to keep and bear arms because of something rarer than being killed by a sack of potatos falling out of the sky and killing someone?

Am I tracking this right?

But the doublespeak continued, with Murphy saying, "As much as this has now become an epidemic, you are still more likely in this country to be killed by a falling object than you are in a mass shooting. There [are] far too many mass shootings."

It's not an epidemic if it's rare. The two things contradict one another, at least as the public sees it.

So either it's an epidemic and we simply have to do something, or you're more likely to have something fall on you and kill you than to be shot and die in a mass shooting. It's one or the other.

Let's not forget that Murphy argues an armed guard in an elementary school is akin to a boarded-up encampment. Yes, he actually said that, too. People in the United States grow up with armed guards and armed police in a lot of places. There's a cop at the local movie theater every weekend night, for example. No one blinks. No one feels unsafe. Most of the time, he's telling loud teenagers to shut up or get out, so that's what people accept is his purpose, even if they know he's the guy who will respond if bullets start flying.

Murphy is so terrified of guns that even carefully vetted individuals in a position of security can't be trusted with them. He talks about being a little more careful about who can get "powerful weapons" in this country, but the truth is that his version of careful would be to prohibit literally everyone.

He can't even see safety in off-duty cops, after all.

 But let's remember that no matter what Murphy says going forward, he knows these are rare. He knows these make scary headlines, but are the exception rather than the rule.

He's just trying not to let a good crisis go to waste, all so he can destroy your right to keep and bear arms.

Editor’s Note: People like Chris Murphy will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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