Advice to Democrats On Guns: Lie, Ignore Facts, Lie Again

By Cam Edwards

The roughly two dozen Democrats currently running for President are of one mind when it comes to the issue of gun control: they want a lot more. Gun licensing, gun bans, “universal background checks”, ammunition background checks, and “red flag” laws are just a few of the proposals we’ve seen from the likes of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker, and there’s more to come as the candidates try to outdo one another in their anti-gun proposals to try and capture the votes of the Democrat base.

Cornell Professor Glenn Altschuler has some advice on what Democrats should say about guns at The Hill, and sadly, he doesn’t recommend “stop talking.” Instead, he recommends lying to the American people.

First, he says Democrats should tell voters that the United States is the “world capitol of firearm homicides, suicides, and mass shootings”. As it turns out, he’s 1/3rd right (which is also 2/3rds wrong). The U.S. isn’t the world capitol of firearm homicides. In fact, the U.S. doesn’t even have the highest firearm homicide rate in North America. That distinction belongs to Mexico. Other countries in the Western hemisphere with higher firearm homicide rates than the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms