It’s increasingly clear that gun control activism thrives on ignorance about the nature of crime and the importance of the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, far too many Americans continue to buy hook, line, and sinker into activists’ mischaracterizations of reality.
Take, for example, one recent survey that discovered a shocking number of American voters erroneously believe that school shootings cause more gun deaths every year than gang violence.
In reality, even when using the broadest possible definition of “school shooting,” such events are far too rare to plausibly constitute a leading cause of gun deaths. Gang-related gun deaths outpace school shooting deaths by several orders of magnitude.
It’s just that gun control activists are content with misleading Americans about the nature of criminal gun violence.
By Amy Swearer