With Anti-Gunners, It’s Always About Never About The Facts

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Mass shootings are powerful for gun control activists. Very powerful.

Each news report of a mass shooting terrifies the public. It reminds them how unsafe the world is, shattering the illusion that they will be free from violence. Regardless of the astronomical odds of them being involved in such a shooting, the terror it invokes is still very real.

There’s a reason gun control anti-gunners embrace these arguments wholeheartedly. They’re banking on that that terror will move people to embrace gun control policies, even if the policies in question wouldn’t have done a damn thing.

In a recent op-ed in Time Magazine, two of the top gun control activists in the U.S. Congress continued their tired drumbeat for laws that would have no impact on the safety of our communities. U.S. Senators Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Dianne Feinstein of California, both Democrats, once again took the easy path toward their long-standing anti-gun rhetoric. Instead of basing their arguments on evidence and facts, they take the emotional-low road.

Punish The Law-Abiding

Anyone reading their piece (assuming anyone does read op-eds in Time), would read the list of tragic shooting incidents that have happened over the …Read the Rest

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