Before I break down this anti-gun propaganda video, know that this is not my first response video to Igor Volsky.
On March 25, 2020, I did a response video to his other Anti-gun video titled: Why People Are Panic-Purchasing Guns.
IGOR Volsky is the Executive Director of GUNS DOWN AMERICA.
The Home Page of Guns Down America literally says:
Guns Down America is the attack dog of the culture war against the second amendment.
Their website brags about how Guns Down America has led large coalitions to execute successful campaigns that have forced FedEx to stop providing discounts to NRA members.
They also drove two large insurers (Chubb and Lockton Affinity) to break their business relationship with the NRA’s Carry Guard insurance.
In addition, they helped push the NRA toward bankruptcy, pushed the nation’s largest banks to publicly back away from doing business with the gun industry, and convinced Walmart to significantly reduce their gun sales and begin actively lobbying for gun reform.
So what you’re about to watch from Igor is not objective, it’s pure anti-gun propaganda designed to look objective and I debunk all of the myths.
If 90% of Americans agree with Universal background checks you wouldn’t need to make this video.
That bill was passed with a 227-203 vote, that’s nowhere near 90%.
You can’t get 90% of 435 voting representatives to agree with Universal background checks and you want us to believe that 90% of 300 million people agree with Universal Background Checks? Yeah, ok, Igor.
Igor got that 90% number from polls that only asked about background checks, not UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS which are different.
However, a study conducted by Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University that was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in July of 2020 found that when asked specifically about whether the participants supported Universal Background Checks only 75% supported Universal background Checks.
So what you’re about to watch is not objective, it’s pure out and out anti-gun propaganda designed to look objective.
Myth 1:
This is how stupid these people think you are.
He just accused the representative of lying about the government wanting to create a gun registry the HR8 Bill to confiscate guns and then literally a second later tells us how a gun registry encourages accountability while doing a deep-sea dive into the history of the government creating gun registries.
Then he tries to use the machine gun registration to prove that they don’t want to confiscate guns, but how many people do you know with a machine gun. Exactly!
The point of the machine gun registration was to make it as hard as possible to own one and barely anyone does and This is the example he uses to convince you that they don’t want to confiscate guns.
The Universal Background Check Bill HR8 does not create a gun registry, even though in 2013, The United States Department of Justice found that “even a perfect universal background check system” would not address the largest sources of crime guns.
Further, the study found that effectiveness would depend on “requiring gun registration”.
They know a universal background check won’t work without a registry, but the goal is to exploit the American people’s lack of memory.
You see in the 90’s they passed the Brady Bill and that created the current background check system we have today.
However, the bill did not include private sales and transfers because they knew the American people at the time wouldn’t go for that.
It wasn’t a loophole, they made a conscious decision not to include private transactions and transfers.
They knew the American people had short memories.
So they would just wait and over time, we’d forget about it then after a few shootings they could say that the current background check system isn’t enough, we need to close the loophole and expand the background check system to private sales and transfers.
Fast forward to 2021 and guess what they’re saying?
While assuring us that there won’t be a gun registry of all the guns the same way they assured us the Brady Bill wouldn’t include private transactions.
Can you take a guess what they’ll be saying after a major shooting 5-10 years from now if we pass HR 8?
They’ll be telling us that we need to close the Gun registration loophole.
They’re playing the long game with the American people’s short-term memories and they’re using Igor to do it.
Myth 2:
If you want to play semantic this is true and not true.
Yes, there are exceptions.
You can hand a gun to a family member and you can hand a gun to someone if they need it to fight off an imminent threat and you can loan someone a gun as long as it’s in your presence the entire time.
However, if I wanted to give my friend a gun, I could not do this and this is what that representative was referring to.
Igor is cherry-picking these myths because he doesn’t have much to go on.
Sufficient to say he’s not wrong but he’s not entirely right.
Myth 3:
A 2019 survey conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that 43 percent of criminals bought their guns on the black market, 6 percent stole them, 10 percent bought them at a store, which means they passed a background check. – 0.8 percent purchased a weapon from a gun show.
82 of the mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and March 2021 involved weapons that were obtained legally while only 16 obtained their guns illegally and that doesn’t mean a background check would have stopped them because one of them stole the guns so what is Igor talking about?
