If the past 12 months have taught us anything as a nation, it’s that gun control doesn’t really do its job of preventing criminals from getting guns, and that restrictive guns It would have to be that proponents of regulation are delusional and live in denial of reality. They claim otherwise.
Remember that the anti-gun lobby is usually silent even when legally armed civilians intervene in crimes to stop them.
Although the number of homicides in 2023 has decreased by more than 11%, the use of firearms in these homicides remains high, according to the latest data estimates available from the FBI.
The Christmas Eve triple shooting in Oxford, Michigan — the scene of a tragic high school shooting in November 2021 — has introduced some new gun regulations — the right to keep and bear arms. The findings confirm the claims made by gun rights advocates such as Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee. We’ve been trying to explain for years, if not decades, that criminals don’t obey gun control laws, and that current adult-restricted laws do nothing to prevent young people from illegally obtaining and using guns.
The Detroit Free Press, reporting on the Oxford shooting that turned into a murder, said the incident occurred “a short distance from Oxford High School.” The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office has a suspect in custody and a gun has been recovered.
The brutal murder of a family near Fall City, Washington in October, blamed on a 15-year-old’s family, shocked the upscale Lake Alice neighborhood. The boy has been charged with five counts of murder, and the case will continue until 2025.
But Washington state has enacted several new gun laws in recent years that require “expanded” background checks, a 10-day waiting period and proof of firearm safety training, and other restrictions for adult gun buyers. has been done.
On January 9, USA Today profiled gun control laws enacted earlier this year in California, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, and other Democratic-controlled states. Have these laws ever prevented murder in any of these states?
The USA Today article reports on Everytown for Gun Safety’s report on states with the strongest gun laws, including California, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, and Hawaii, but the triple threat in Mahomet, Illinois, just before Christmas The murder has shaken the community. WCIA News reports that the suspect, identified as John R. Lyons, was shot and killed in a shootout with police near Berwyn in suburban Cook County.
There is considerable irony in the fact that the WCIA has identified Everytown as a “gun violence prevention advocacy organization.”
According to the popular website Heyjackass.com, there have been 606 murders in Chicago so far this year, 536 of which involved firearms. Another 2,414 people were injured in the shooting.
California’s strict gun laws touted by Everytown in a USA Today report haven’t stopped murders in the Golden State. One look at Sacramento’s bloody past few months — just Google “Sacramento murders” — tells the story of the state capital, but it’s just one city.
Despite a 14 percent drop in homicides last year, California still appears to have more homicides than any other state (1,929 in 2023). Or Florida (1,066 in 2023), infamously dubbed the “gun state” by anti-gun opponents. The Sacramento Bee reported earlier this year that “guns remain by far the most common weapon used to kill people,” prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Everytown cheerleaders to: It might be interesting to ask how these restrictive gun control laws work.
The high-profile murder of insurance executive Brian Thompson on a downtown New York City sidewalk was caught on camera, but stricter gun control laws adopted in response to the Bruen Supreme Court ruling in 2022 , certainly refutes the claim that it was necessary to keep the streets of the Big Apple safe.
Despite Massachusetts’ strict gun laws, homicides still occur in Boston. Search for articles about murders in Boston. Again, overall, you’re going to see reports that show that the restrictive Bay State gun laws aren’t actually making this place safer.
According to Statista.com, Washington, D.C. has the worst homicide rate in the nation, and it remains difficult to legally own a firearm. The graph also shows, for example, that Maryland has a higher murder rate (8.3 per 100,000 people) than neighboring Virginia (6 per 100,000 people) and stricter gun laws. You could argue that these are “apples to oranges” comparisons, but wait a minute.
Illinois’ murder rate is higher than neighboring Indiana (6.6 to 5.6 per 100,000 people, respectively) and Montana, which has the highest gun ownership rate in the country (66.3%), according to the World Population Review, with a population of 1.13. expensive. 1 million people — has a much lower murder rate (2.8 per 100,000 people) than the much smaller but similarly populated state of Delaware, which has a population of 1.03 million and a murder rate of 4.5 per 100,000 people, according to Statista.com It is said that Gun laws in Montana are much more lax than in Delaware, where only 34.4% of the population owns guns, including soon-to-be former President Joe Joe, who owns at least one shotgun. -Includes Biden.
None of this will stop gun control advocates from calling for more laws, tighter regulations, and erosion of gun rights, and they ignore, if not irrelevant, the data above. One would simply claim that it is an anecdote. That’s why gun owners, especially in Democratic-controlled areas. States expect more of the same in 2025.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, the author of multiple books on the right to keep and bear arms, and a former NRA certified firearms instructor.
