In a recent attempt to bully Republicans in Congress, MSNBC Pundit Joy Reid said that if Republicans really cared about kids, they would, “muster the courage to pass an assault weapons ban.”
Not leaving well enough alone, Reid continued, “Like the one Joe Biden got passed in 1994. You know, the assault weapons ban that Republicans allowed to expire.”
The problem for Reid is that criminals don’t care about laws. Hard drugs are illegal. In 2020, nearly 92,000 people died from drug overdoses. Are more drug laws going to stop this?
What many gun control pundits fail to realize is that for every ‘mass shooting’ that is breathlessly reported by the media talking heads with their overproduced chyrons there are dozens of crimes prevented by an armed potential victim.
Inner-city populations are rapidly realizing that there is nobody to defend themselves except for themselves.
Urban gun sales are increasing exponentially. That is not an accident. Homicide rates in all large US cities are spiraling out of control.
Police are reactive. While it does occasionally happen, by and large police do not stop crime. They are there most of the time to pick up the pieces. The simplest way that anyone can prevent becoming a victim of a violent crime is by being armed.
You don’t do that by making it harder for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, just because you don’t like the way they choose to defend themselves.
Perhaps if Mrs. Reid would leave her coastal gun control bubble and spend some significant time in the inner cities of Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and every other city with a large minority population and skyrocketing homicide rates.
The real problem isn’t guns once you look at the big picture.
You don’t stop crime by disarming the law-abiding. You stop crime by leveling the playing field.
