We are in a rut. We have characterized our cause as defending the Second Amendment for so long, we have lost sight of the real battle going on right now.
Gun control is a politically expedient web of lies. Politicians like it because it costs far less than addressing the real causes of violence. Gun control fans like it because they long ago ran out of ideas and with their money and media control, they can hide the fact their laws not only don’t work, they can’t work. They don’t solve the problems because they don’t even address the problems.
This is where we need to attack and we need to be relentless.
In 2022, the CDC fatal injury reports show that 39% of all firearm-related deaths were suicides by White, non-Hispanic males. States with red flag laws actually had higher rates of firearm usage and virtually no change in the total number of suicides.
Firearm homicides with Black and Hispanic male victims accounted for 27% of the total. Focusing down even farther, we find more than ten percent of all gun-related deaths were homicides with victims who were Black, non-Hispanic males between the ages of 16 and 29. This group makes up about 1.3% of the U.S. population.
So the problem isn’t guns: It’s gangs. It should come as a surprise to no one that measures primarily targeting legal guns owners don’t have any impact.
Gun control fans and fools like Joe Biden talk about keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them but they don’t seem to know how those people actually get them.
This is our battle. As General George Patton once said, “Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack, attack, and attack some more.”
