Just in time to spoil the season, Everytown for Gun Control is back with the 2025 edition of “Debunking Gun Myths at the Dinner Table,” a list of 17 talking points their most zealous — and most gullible — devotees can use to disrupt an amiable family dinner conversation.
Fortunately, chances are good you can shut them down quickly. These people are seldom aware of anything beyond the propaganda, which is exactly what the gun-grabbers want.
If you look at the references, you will see nearly all of them are based on “Everytown Research” or heavily biased articles and studies designed with pre-determined outcomes.
Addressing all of Everytown’s talking points would make this article far too long, but it’s well worth looking at a few.
Everytown ‘Myth’: Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on a gun.
Everytown ‘Fact’: Laws like background checks stop gun sale to criminals every day. Since 1994, these laws have blocked more than 5 million gun sales to people who could not legally own guns.
Actual Fact: The “debunking” stumbles from the start: Everytown’s ‘fact’ affirms its ‘myth’. Background check laws apply only to transfers made through licensed dealers. In fact, only licensed dealers can acceess the NICS system.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, only about 10% of crime guns are obtained from gun shops, pawn shops and gun shows. Even that figure has to be adjusted to account for illegal straw sales.
Failing a NICS check doesn’t mean a bad guy can’t get a gun, even in states requiring background checks for all firearm transfers. To be enforceable, universal background check laws require universal gun registration which has been forbidden by federal law since 1986.
Then there’s this: According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s 2021 handbook, 88.8% of persons convicted for federal gun offenses were already prohibited from even temporary gun possession.
Everytown ‘Myth’: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Everytown ‘Fact’: People with guns kill people, and more efficiently than people without guns. The U.S. gun death rate is 13 times that of other high-income countries.
Actual Fact: Once again, Everytown’s ‘fact’ affirms the ‘myth’. People with guns kill people. People with knives kill people. People with hammers, baseball bats, poison, and a variety of other instruments, including their bare hands and feet, kill people. People with truckloads of fertilizer and racing fuel kill people – and with far more efficiency than guns.
[Note: Remember that laughing so hard you fall out of your chair might be considered rude at the family dinner table. Always ask to be excused.]
What’s the common factor in all of these? People. Duh.
Due to a nearly maniacal fixation, Everytown sees only the gun. This is a fundamental flaw in their belief system and their agenda.
Comparing the United States to a cherry-picked batch of other countries shows just how little Everytown understands — or even cares. If we look at the same United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime data sourced by Everytown but look at all 102 cpuntries included, the U.S. comes in at #24 with a homicide rate slightly below average
America is not like those handpicked countries. In fact, America isn’t like any other country on Earth. Simply starting with our relationship to our government and the one of the primary reasons for our right to keep and bear arms will display the stark differences.
This last one isn’t likely to be a topic of conversation but it’s enough to make you want toss the turnips at any offending jackal that brings it up.
Everytown ‘Myth’: Like cigarette ads, it’s illegal to market guns to children.
Everytown ‘Fact’: Gun makers directly target children with their ads and social media – at a time when guns are the leading cause of deaths for children and teens.
Actual Fact: This gem relies on The Smoking Gun, another Bloomberg propaganda organ (wasn’t The Trace enough?), as its source. In particular, an outright smear piece entitled “Gun Companies Market Recklessly” that stretches credibility to way beyond the breaking point.
In the real world, making a mountain out of a molehill generally requires a molehill. The Smoking Gun starts with a mound of a somewhat different, and far more odiferous, composition and piles it on, attempting to match Pikes Peak.
If you see an Everytown talking point desperately needing a meeting with reality, put it in the comments and I will try to get back to you.
Happy holidays!
About Bill Cawthon
Bill Cawthon first became a gun owner 55 years ago. He has been an active advocate for Americans’ civil liberties for more than a decade. He is the information director for the Second Amendment Society of Texas.
honest demonrat is found under a ton of granite bloviating on how great and honest he was ,stone ways a ton to keep the gasbag in the ground