Gun control advocates and Democrats inhabit a different space. Perhaps it’s another dimension or some kind of odd singularity. Whatever it is, it’s a fantasy, complete with all the trappings, in which facts are not only irrelevant, they’re squashed by whatever claims are made by the faithful.
We’re accustomed to unsupported (and unsupportable) claims, cynical appeals to emotion, and carefully crafted, mass-market propaganda. However, it appears some gun-grabbers, even influential ones, have succumbed to their addiction and actually believe what they say. They have embraced the elves-and-fairies lifestyle.
After Thurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Schaller upheld Washington’s assault weapons ban* last month, Renée Hopkins, CEO of Alliance for Gun Responsibility, released a statement:
“This is another strong affirmation that our state’s gun violence prevention laws are both constitutional and effective. Assault weapons have no place in our communities, and Washington has been clear about that.”
We’re still waiting on the Supreme Court to weigh in on ‘constitutional’ but ‘effective’? This is obviously some new definition of the word not found in any dictionary — ever.
A report from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs covered violent crime from 2019 to 2024. The report compared the number of offenses and rate per 100,000 population for Washington state to the national stats.
Washington’s violent crime rate rose 8%; aggravated assaults rose 27%; and the murder rate soared 43%.
Compare those figures to the national rates: The U.S. violent crime rate dropped 6%; the rate of` aggravated assaults rose just 2%; and the murder rate fell 4%.
Red flag laws weren’t ‘effective’, either. In the five years from 2019 to 2023, the CDC reported the percentage of Washington suicides committed with a gun rose 7%.
In fairness, if Ms. Hopkins’ concept of ‘effective’ is an increase in firearm-related fatalities, Washington’s statutes are doing an exemplary job.
There was another notable aberration in September of this year. Following a tragic mass shooting in Manhattan, New York Governor Kathy Hochul sought to place blame on Nevada’s lax gun laws.
Hochul bragged about New York state’s gun laws and demanded Congress pass similar laws on a national basis.
Neither Hochul nor the media figured out that all those strong gun laws failed spectacularly. They not only failed to prevent the incident, but there’s also no indication that they impacted the killer at all. Despite this, she wants all Americans to be subjected to those same laws.
All that’s missing is Rod Serling saying, “Presented for your consideration…”
Ensconced in their little pocket of ersatz reality, gun grabbers believe nothing can stand in the way of their desired goals. Even the impossible is disregarded.
Ihlan Omar, the controversial U.S. Representative from Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District, was captured on video as she spoke to a group:
“We have more guns in this country than we have humans. So one of the things that is going to be important is to create a registry so we know where the guns are. We know when they go into the wrong hands when they’re stolen. And we can actually start a buyback program. I know that some of the Minnesota legislators have had that legislation and that’s something that we should be thinking about on a federal level.”
Her first sentence is irrelevant: We also have more Crayola crayons than people. Left to themselves, they pose exactly the same threat to public safety as firearms — or steak knives, hand tools, or Ford F-150 trucks.
From the second sentence on, Rep. Omar falls back on a popular gun-grabber fantasy: Federal gun registration. There are two obstacles in our world, but it seems they aren’t considered an issue in whatever dimension is occupied by the gun-control crazies.
First, a national registry of firearms or firearm owners is prohibited by federal law and has been since May 19, 1986. 18 U.S. Code § 926 says: “No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established.”
The second challenge will be much more difficult to overcome: Americans are not going to register their guns. Only a fraction of the estimated 400 million+ firearms owned by more than 80 million citizens are located in states with long-standing gun registration laws. Attempts to impose new, state-level registration requirements on certain types of firearms delivered ‘disappointing’ results.
Actually believing in gun buybacks indicates a ban fan’s addiction has entered a critical phase, urgently requiring an intervention.
When it comes to restrictions on the legal ownership of guns, control addicts and Democrats cling to beliefs less credible than the Easter Bunny. These strongly indicate there’s no point in future discussions.
On the other hand, there is a pressing need for us to rein in some rogues in Congress and state legislatures who have fallen to the lure of the unicorn.
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.
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Any registration or buyback scheme needs to be met with at least the same levels of compliance that the magazine ban obtained in New Jersey: zero magazines were turned in to police.
No gun control law ever stopped any criminal. That b*tch Omar needs to be deported back to Somalia. She committed fraud and incest by marrying her brother to stay in America. The demorat party should be outlawed. All gun control proponents should be required to spend the night on the streets in any large democrat run city without their security personnel.
From the article: Perhaps it’s another dimension or some kind of odd singularity. It’s part of their Utopia delusion. We all know that the concept of logic and common sense evades them. This is part of the mental and emotional problems that possess them we have to deal with on a daily basis and why America has the problems it has. Democrats need mental help. Supporting LGBTQ+, BLM, ANTIFA which is a terrorist organization, abortion, no law enforcement, release of people that have 30 crimes pending because they didn’t appear with 5 of them being felonies, having 99.9% of the… Read more »
The goober and their utopian plans will never succeed in a free country, we have been fighting for over 250 years to keep our freedom and the majority of us will continue, either with the balloon box or with our god given rights to bear arms. Their idea of “gun buybacks” is a crackpot idea, (you can’t buy back what you never sold) and the “registry” is nothing but the beginning of the end. Reminiscent of Nazi Germany registering the jews to collect them up to eliminate them from their population
“So one of the things that is going to be important is to create a registry so we know where the guns are. We know when they go into the wrong hands when they’re stolen.“ She is either ignoring or ignorant of the fact that not only will the criminals not register their guns or notify anyone when they steal any, but if a person can not legally own a firearm they can not be convicted of violating a mandatory firearm registration law if found in possession of an unregistered firearm. Mandatory firearm registration laws only affect people who can… Read more »
Yup, Omar wants to ban all guns in America, so her Islamic Somalian warlords can takeover and enslave the whites. Articles say Omar is married to her brother, another article said she married her father and had children with him. Omar and her Somalian Muslims need to be deported now! Goof ball tampon Timmy says he loves the Somalians and wants more to move to Minnesota. Photos have been printed with tampon Tommy, Omar and a top Somalian warlord in Minneapolis- Mogadishu. The far leftist democrats claim all crime is committed with semi auto rifles. Actually it is very low,… Read more »
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People have called me crazy, but I have a theory about gun control – it is being used by the globalists for depopulation purposes in the US. Let me explain. Since there are more guns than people, it will be impossible to round them all up as millions will never give them up – but that is the plan. The Bloomberg funded anti-2A groups have been blindly following the plan to disarm, yet that plan is meant to bring about Civil War as the end game. Civil war will completely depopulate the large cities (starvation and military action), leaving them… Read more »
Omar has her head scarf wrapped up way to tight, or it could be because she did marry her brother?
If she and her husband submit to blood dna testing, I’d be happy to
surrender a HiPoint semi auto pistol in her support.
Strange not one single defamation lawsuit has been filed,
would be a slam dunk with lots of money in her pocket.
Are the antis really that stupid? They can’t or don’t realize a gun keeps them the right to spout all their babble. Come back when you’re IQ passes you’re shoe size.