DANIEL VAUGHAN: Democratic Calls For Gun Control Ring Hollow

After any awful event, I see, like many of you, the same performative rage from my liberal friends. They claim everything that happened was totally preventable if we only put in place gun control of some kind. It doesn’t matter whether the facts of the case or the actual policy prescriptions would accomplish anything; the only thing that matters is one line: more gun control.

Here’s the problem: the gun control debate ended in 2020. When radical leftists burned cities to the ground, crime exploded, Democratic prosecutors chose not to prosecute crime, and Americans watched in horror as everyone reacted to the pandemic – that settled the question of gun ownership.

Sprinkle into that the increasing gun ownership among minority groups like Jews, because they no longer feel safe in major cities – for good reason – and you get the current political climate. All the stats, arguments, and more don’t matter in this because they’ve been covered a million times in previous events.

Everyone in America witnessed, just a few weeks ago, Derrick Perry stop a man running around a Walmart, stabbing people.

Just this year, when Los Angeles rioters took over, the city and state did nothing. People watched as their government stepped aside and allowed it to happen. Donald Trump had to send the troops into Washington D.C., to restore order because for four years, Biden’s hand-picked U.S. attorney declined to prosecute 67% of those arrested.

Democrats live in this fantasy world where they can throw the borders wide open, refuse to prosecute crimes, and then demand Americans give up gun rights. It’s not just in Washington D.C., however. The decision not to prosecute and set criminals free was a conscious one made by Democratic donors.

Donors like George Soros specifically targeted local prosecutor races and put people in place who would refuse to prosecute crimes. The result was immediate: crime spiked – especially violent crime.

Prosecutors refusing to do their job puts police in a bind. That’s why several Republican-run states have been able to staff up their police forces by poaching good officers from blue cities. Police are leaving places where they make no difference.

And again, this brings us back to gun control: you can have extensive gun control, but you can’t have crime-ridden cities where prosecutors side with criminals. If you’re actively choosing that second one, Americans will choose to protect themselves. It’s the only natural choice.

Here’s another story of a church that was attacked this year: a deacon named Richard Pryor saw a gunman coming for his church. He acted:

Pryor, a deacon at the church about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Detroit, was on his cell phone with a 911 dispatcher who was relaying the quickly unfolding events to law enforcement. But the gunman continued to move toward the church doors.

“I’m just realizing there’s no time,” Pryor said Thursday. “I didn’t have a weapon on me, in the truck or anything, so what are your options?”

What Pryor did do was use his 2018 Ford F-150 pickup to ram the gunman, who was then fatally shot by church security staff.

Police couldn’t respond in time. It took people on the scene who were capable and willing to answer.

You’re not going anywhere with idiotic screeching about gun control when stories like this are happening in America – which liberals ignore – and demand everyone else disarm.

What happened in Minnesota was awful. There’s no doubt or question about that. On the backside, we get another round of liberal Democrats blasting everyone else for not instituting whatever version of gun control they are pushing today.

Take that message into the crime-ridden cities that Democrats run. The claim “this can’t happen anymore” goes silent while people are murdered every day in these cities. Only mass shootings get the ire of Democrats, but if you’re subject to any of the crime due to their insistence on siding with criminals, you’re out of luck.

It’s a dishonest line of attack, and Americans see through it. The debate died five years ago during the pandemic. Democrats turned on Americans that year and proceeded to wreck things during the Biden administration. We’re currently dealing with the cleanup effort.

If you want to find a way through this, maybe first identify why another trans-identifying kid is shooting up another church or school. Because when I talked with independents and conservatives, that was the point that shocked them – it was again on this point. Democrats want to talk about old policies in situations that no longer match the facts.

They’re out of touch with reality. It is the left that has made America unsafe. There’s a reason Donald Trump’s simple message of being tough on crime resonates. It works because the opposing party is enabling crime and demanding that everyone accept disarmament and gun control.

America has rejected that offer.

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