Po Murray lives in Newtown, Connecticut. She is the cofounder of the Newtown Action Alliance, one of the gun control groups formed in the aftermath of the heinous murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School. From what I could tell, Ms. Murray is cut from the same cloth as the rest: heavy on the emotions; light on the facts.
On April 14, Ms. Murray posted “Reclaiming ‘Gun Control’: Why We Need Safety, Prevention, and Control” on Substack.
“I embraced the language many in our movement adopted,” she wrote. I spoke about “gun safety” and “gun violence prevention” because we were told these terms would resonate more broadly, reduce polarization, and help us reach people who might otherwise shut down when they heard ‘gun control.’”
She has come to a new conclusion: Strip away the euphemisms; call it what it is.
Good idea! Now let’s apply the same thinking to assault weapons, large capacity magazines, and gun violence.
Ms. Murray continues: “I no longer believe this is a choice between one set of words or another. I believe we need all of them, and we need to use them more intentionally.
“At the same time, we need to be clear about what this work is ultimately about. It is about freedom. Not abstract freedom, but the freedom to live our daily lives without fear. The freedom to send our children to school, to gather in our communities, to worship, to work, and to simply exist without the constant threat of gun violence.”
There is no such thing as freedom to live our lives without fear. There is also no right to live “without the constant threat of ‘gun violence.’”
No government or society on earth could make such promises. Life is not sanitized for our protection.
It is, however, quite possible to live a long and productive life without the “constant threat of gun violence.” Simply ignore the blow-up bogeymen and papier-mâché tigers created by gun control fans.
Better, do some independent research. It’s like firing a howitzer into a house of cards.
Washington state got on the gun control bandwagon about 12 years ago and has been going gangbusters ever since.
In 2015, Seattle’s murder rate was 3.49 per 100,000 population. In 2020, it had risen to 7.16 per 100,000 population, more than twice the 2015 rate. After about 2021, homicide rates began falling. Seattle’s rate rose seven percent.
No fudging here: Population counts were verified with the U.S. Census Bureau; offense counts were sourced from state statistics and individual law enforcement agencies. Our data is spin-free.
By all the data, gun control does not work. At best, it’s irrelevant; at worst, it’s a joke.
Over the years, I have compared the gun-grabbers’ remedies to the snake oil nostrums hawked by fast-talking hucksters in the Old West traveling medicine shows. How else would you describe measures that ignore virtually every factor impacting this so-called ‘epidemic’ or can’t be enforced because critical information is missing, and it’s a violation of federal law to gather it?
A point to consider: In 2016, voters in Nevada barely passed a referendum in favor of universal background checks. Only one county in Nevada passed the referendum, but that one county was Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
Everytown for Gun Safety volunteered to assist Nevada legislators in drafting a bill. It eventually passed. But Everytown screwed up: they didn’t check to see who processed the background checks and specified running all inquiries through the FBI’s NICS system.
Unfortunately for the ban fans, the state of Nevada had set up its processing when the background check system was first being implemented. The state’s choice was the Nevada Department of Public Safety.
The FBI refused to take over processing, so the state had to wait two years for the next legislative session to set things right.
Did the gun control zealots take their lumps and retire to consider their error? Nope: they sued the governor and state attorney general because they refused to implement a law that could literally not be enforced.
As Po Murray said, this is all about freedom. Just not the freedom she envisions.
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.
I read her piece over at SUBSTACK. There were factual errors included in the text. Po Murry neglected to say the mentally deficient male murdered his own mother with the handgun in order to access the rifle. IMO, a substantial and an obvious purposeful omission from the story. I left three separate comments. This piece had a total of 6 comments. All the other comments were supportive, of course.
Gun control marches on because millions of liberals picture themselves shot one day. What could these liberals be plotting?
Another delusional ,irrational woman who thinks if you ban guns all shootings and crime will stop. A lot of these so called shootings are by the 13%, who shoot at rival gangs, block parties, rival bars. There are countries that are extremely dangerous to go to, and they don’t use guns. One favorite thing is machetes to hack people up with. Just check with the state department site about what countries are dangerous. There are people out there who would kill you just to steal your shoes. With many of these illegal street drugs, there are many addicts who would… Read more »
Another FAKE story has popped up on YouTube. This one, from “Power Bench” claims that the US Supreme Court on a 7-0 vote ended most radical gun control laws in all 50 states. I’m not sure what these FAKE posts are trying to accomplish, but it could very well be the Gun Control Lobby trolling gun owners.
Gun control is being used as a vehicle by the Democrats to start Civil War 2.0, per their globalist overlords. Think of this – all cities will be completely depopulated as a result (Democrats eliminated), and they will also be leveled to the ground – giving them blank slates for “15 minute cities” and also a nice depopulation of the people they hate the most – inner city folks and white liberal women that would have been wiped out as they wood be their foot soldiers in the war.