Maybe Anti-Gunners Should to Do More Than Genuflect to the Gun Control Gods After High Profile Shootings

beseeching the gun control gods Moms Demand Action praying
Beseeching the gun control gods (AI image: Grok)

When it comes to gun violence at the national level, gun control is more religious than practical. Politicians must genuflect to the solutions proposed by national gun control groups and their deep-pocketed donors, rather than examine what happens in the most common shootings and propose measures that would deal with them. Gun deaths are supposed to go down magically.

At the local level, things seem a little more sane. Missouri Democratic state Rep. Anthony Ealy proposes that to attend a parade held by a city or the state, event-goers should go through gun checkpoints with metal detectors.

You can argue with him on Second Amendment grounds, but if you are trying to prevent a replay of the Super Bowl parade gunplay in Kansas City this year, you can’t argue with it as a practical measure. Even if it did not stop all guns from getting into the event, it would have deterred some and prevented others, cutting the potential for violence at the parade. There’s a good chance less blood would have been spilled.

Using incidents of gun violence to advance gun control measures that are irrelevant to the case at hand is nothing more than empty posturing with little hope of addressing the problem of gun violence. Ealy’s more practical approach is a model for Democrats who want to do something more than sound good on TV or in a speech. Biden’s gun control autopilot won’t solve anything.

— David Mastio in After another school shooting, Democrats’ foolish gun control plan is on autopilot

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5 thoughts on “Maybe Anti-Gunners Should to Do More Than Genuflect to the Gun Control Gods After High Profile Shootings”

  1. God replaced with ‘political activism ideology advertisement’ wrapped up in a pretty package of praying in ‘Moms Demand Action’ T-shirts. Blasphemy mostly with more of a message ‘we are not about God, just wanna use the idea of God to exploit emotions and paint a picture that’s not true because we are really doing ‘political activism ideology advertisement’ – and that shows contempt or lack of reverence for God.

    1. Exactly, because it’s a sure bet that nearly everyone if not all of them support the murder of babies in the womb simply because they are inconvenient to someone’s preferred lifestyle choice.

  2. Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

    There is some serious good news concerning the Congress, the conservatives fleeing the slave states is about to tip the balance of congress nearly 20 seats in our favor, this makes it easier to stop their fascist laws getting passed in the near future. And getting ours passed!

    Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU all the conservatives moving to Florida, Texas, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho…

    “The Census Bureau released its population forecast earlier today. The American Redistricting Project has translated the Bureau’s forecast into Congressional representation as of 2030. As you would expect, it is bad news for the Democrats:”

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    1. We’re segregating ourselves. It was bound to happen eventually. I’ve proposed this as a strategy for years. It isn’t running away. It’s a tactical retreat. We need more in Arizona. That state is a mess.