As many of you gun owners have undoubtedly noticed, ever since the left fired up "conversation" about gun control, every retailer from midway USA to Brownells is sold out of just about every useful thing. Be it parts, magazines, ammo, etc it's all either out of stock or back ordered. Now those who might be reading that are center left or very left might be thinking "this is just the gun nuts buying up what they can before the ban" However I beg to differ. Although one gun shop is anecdotal evidence, I've heard many reports that the people coming in to buy guns now, aren't the stereotypical redneck with fifteen AKs in his safe and is looking to procure fifteen more before they ban them. On the contrary in fact, many if not most of the people buying guns now are saying "I never thought I'd own a gun but here I am buying one".
Honestly the left has shot themselves in the foot in regards to getting public support on this. Let me outline how.
1. By turning a tragedy into a political platform for removing rights from EVERYONE else who didn't commit the act.
2. By saying we need to have a "conversation" about "sensible" gun control, when in fact since at least the 1960's, liberals have consistently used this line as a not-so-subtle way of saying it's our way or the highway.
3. The people have a long term memory when it comes to things repeated, if gun control didn't work in the past, or even remotely cause a downward dip in the number of murders, suicides, mass shootings, etc then why would more help us now?
On top of this, I'd like to present an interesting fact:
According to the UNDOC,
North America has a murder rate (not counting out or focusing in on gun
murders) of 3.9. While Western Europe (which has more restrictive gun
laws then any state of the US) has a murder rate of 6.4. This alone
should be cause for concern if you're thinking gun control has any
positive effect on the murder rate of a country or region.
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