@Dig_Dug Yep, rhetoric. You like statistics, right? Okay, let’s dig into statistics. There were about 14,600 gun homicides in the US in 2019. It spiked up in 2020 due to the COVID lockdowns that Dems were screaming for. But of the 14,600, the vast majority were not committed by law-abiding citizens. They were committed by criminals that were not supposed to have a gun anyway. Those horrible AR-15s? More people died by hands and feet than by those. There are many things that play into gun violence and I am against gun violence…as are the huge majority of gun owners in this country.
There are roughly 345M guns in this country. Let’s say they are owned by 150M people. I’m being purposefully low on that estimate. And lets say that half of the gun homicides were committed by a legal gun owner. That means that 0.005% of all gun homicides not committed by criminals were committed law abiding citizens.
But let’s look at the term “Legal gun owner”. Take Nicolas Cruz. You know, the Parkland School shooter? 17 dead. Big deal. Yet Nicolas Cruz got his gun legally. How could this be? He was in trouble all the time. He scared many people because he was so crazy. He’d been collected by the authorities a number of times for crimes that would have branded him as being off limits for gun purchases. Yet he managed to pass the background check without problem. Huh. Oh yeah! Obama pushed a program to not arrest students. The Dems in Broward County pushed it to be right in line. So Cruz would break the law, get picked up, the cops would realize he was a student and they’d let him go again. Nothing on his record. This happened many times. And finally he was old enough to buy a gun, went to do it, filled out the background check and passed it and was allowed to buy the gun.
But hey, you know you will just to the Dems defense here. Blame the gun, not the idiots that created the program that allowed a troubled kid to be able to buy one.
But let’s dig even deeper. You blame the Repubs for all the problems with gun violence. Yet last year 695 people were killed by guns. Most, if not all, were illegally obtained. But this is down from 797 in 2021. Yet Chicago has among the most strict gun control laws in the nation. It also happens to be controlled by Democrats. So the Dems got their strict gun control laws put into place and they have high gun death numbers.