A 20-year-old managed to infiltrate a rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he fired off multiple rounds. An innocent bystander was killed shielding his family, at least one more was injured and Trump suffered a gunshot wound to his right ear.
The response from anti-gunners?
Yet another shrill call to ban popular semi-automatic rifles enjoyed by tens of millions of Americans. President Joe Biden made that tired declaration as he addressed the NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas.
This is nothing new, as the president and other anti-Second Amendment zealots use every opportunity to call for mass confiscation of perfectly legal firearms.
The alarming assassination attempt was immediately followed by calls from both sides of the political aisle to tone down the rhetoric and restore civility in Washington. That did not last long, as renewed attacks on fundamental rights quickly reemerged, and the refrain was the same — destroy the Second Amendment.
Alan Gottlieb is the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He asked the very fair question of how exactly these anti-gunners believe this ban would work.
“Is he personally going to go door-to-door and confiscate people’s firearms?” Gottlieb wondered. “By some estimates, Americans own more than 22 million modern semi-auto rifles. That’s an awful lot of doors to be knocking on.”
There are never calls from this crowd to crack down on violent criminals and rid the streets of those who would harm others. There should also be much more emphasis placed on treatment for obviously disturbed individuals who apparently fall through society’s cracks more and more every year.
But what does not make sense is to demand a sweeping ban on inanimate objects that violent criminals misuse.
These same objects are not only protected by the Second Amendment but have been enjoyed for centuries by law-abiding Americans for everything from hunting to feed the family to passing the tradition of sport shooting down to the next generation.
The reason? It is much more politically expedient in many circles to simply blame the gun rather than to bring the hammer down on those who prey on the innocent.
The boogeymen cannot be violent criminals, as there is a political price to be paid for holding their feet to the fire. So, instead, there are sweeping attempts to deflect blame away from the actual perpetrators and onto the objects they use to commit their crimes.
This renewed call ignores the fact that is clear to anyone with a cursory knowledge of guns — an attempt to shoot a target from a rooftop at 130 yards would much more likely be successful using a bolt-action rifle with a scope.
However, certain leaders are fixated on villainizing AR-style weapons that resemble “weapons of war.” Never mind the truth that they are not actual weapons of war and are often used to protect innocent civilians from those who would cause them great harm.
Indeed, it is evident that many in Washington do not want to let this crisis of an attempted assassination of a former president and current candidate under the very noses of the Secret Service go to waste. They are only too happy to trot out the same tired arguments and convince their followers that people have no individual responsibility.
That it is the gun that commits the crime.
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