Friday, February 16, 2018

We Can't Have A Debate About Guns If Liberals Keep Lying About Them

Of course there are limitations on gun ownership - there are over 10,000 gun laws being ignored by criminals as we speak.

The lapse of the assault weapons ban in 2004 did not precipitate an uptick in gun violence.

Though there are probably around 15 million AR-15s in civilian hands today, they are responsible for a small number of gun deaths - around two percent of gun homicides in 2016 were perpetrated by rifles, and not all of them AR-15s. The vast majority of gun homicides and suicides are committed using the kind of handguns that Scarborough believes Americans should be able to own.

"Maybe the gun lobby is panicking because history is not on its side. Since 1994, the number of hunters in the United States has fallen to about 15 percent. As Kurt Andersen noted in his book 'Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire,' just 3 percent of Americans own roughly half of the country's guns. Three out of four Americans do not even own a gun."

Sure, gun collectors will own a large percentage of individual guns.

This attempt to artificially diminish the number of Americans who own guns works in concert with efforts to blame one organization, the NRA, which apparently has a mint in its basement and a supernatural power to make politicians complicit in mass murder.

A big part of the problem is that gun-control advocates have a singular obsession with guns - especially, a particular style of gun - and very little concern for proper enforcement or warnings systems or cultural trends that have led to mass shootings or mental health risks or how we cover these shootings.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/16/we-cant-have-a-debate-about-guns-if-liberals-keep-lying-about-them/ 

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