Deconstructing the Fascist Left’s anti-gun rhetoric
They falsely claim that semiautomatics are "assault weapons" or "weapons of war," but they lie and obfuscate in order to rob us of our Second Amendment rights.
Once again, one of America’s deadliest mass shootings took place in Texas. Nineteen fourth graders and two teachers died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. (Photo: Dan Seiber/Associated Press) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nineteen dead fourth graders, along with two dead teachers in Uvalde, Texas last week, is a tragedy. No one can argue that and the nation must take time to mourn.
But the Fascist Biden regime and its adherents can’t help themselves. They had to make it political and they wasted no time in doing so.
They rolled out the usual nonsense, calling semiautomatic rifles “assault weapons.” Biden told his same old lie by stating, “the Second Amendment is not absolute.” Little Bobby Frank O’Rourke ― who doesn’t have one single drop of Hispanic blood yet insists on going by the Spanish diminutive “Beto” ― make a total ass of himself on national television by interrupting Gov. Gregg Abbott’s (R-TX) media brief updating America on the shooting and its aftermath.
The Fascist Left has used the same tired arguments trying to ban or outlaw guns for generations. They refuse to accept that the Supreme Court ruling in June 2008 on District of Columbia v. Heller settled the issue or personal gun ownership in the U.S. SCOTUS held that the phrase “well-regulated militia” in the Second Amendment was intended by the Founders and Framers to protect that right.
There is something we all need to understand about the gun debate: Nothing the Fascists say about guns is true.
In this article, we will deconstruct every major argument the Left puts forth.
“We must ban assault weapons”
Parents concerned for the status of their childen at Robb Elementary School rushed to scene seeking answers. (Photo: Sarah Stills/San Antonio Express-News) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AR-15s, AK-47s and other semiautomatic rifles are not “assault weapons.” Assault weapons are military-grade fully automatic weapons like the M-4, the P-90 and others that will continue firing as long as the trigger is held down.
Assault rifles are illegal for private civilians to own or possess. There have never been any mass shooting in which real, actual assault weapons were used because they are impossible for the average American citizen to acquire, legally or illegally.
The so-called “assault weapons” ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 actually banned semiautomatic rifles. Congress chose not to renew the ban when it expired after 10 years because it was completely ineffective. Motivated shooters who wanted a semiautomatic rifle would find a way to get one.
It is often claimed that the “AR” in AR-15 is an acronym for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” That is a lie. “AR” are the initials for ArmaLite Arms, the first company to build the popular platform in the early 1950s.
It is attractive to gun owners because it is modular. Grips, barrel lengths, receivers, etc. can easily be replaced without having to pay hundreds of dollars to a gunsmith. Colt bought ArmaLite in 1960 and has licensed the design to multiple gun manufacturers in the last 62 years.
As with semiautomatic pistols such as the Colt .45 military issue or popular 9MM handguns, a single round is fired with a single pull of the trigger. The only thing “automatic” about such weapons is that, when the round leaves the chamber, the casing is ejected and the next round loaded into the chamber, or receiver. There are ways to increase the rapidity of fire, but it is still one pull, one round.
“Mass shootings are on the increase”
Denver residents held a candlelight vigil after a gunman the Fascist media classifies as a “mass shooter” went on a rampage in Lakewood, Colorado last December, killing six before dying in a shootout with police. (Photo: Reggie Kahn/Denver Post) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The worst year for mass shootings in the U.S. was 2017, when the Las Vegas mass shooter took 58 lives on the final night of a country music festival on the famed Strip. The shooter had multiple semiautomatic rifles in his room at the Mandalay Bay Casino and Hotel, breaking out windows in his room and firing down on the crowd from a distance of about 200 yards. There were four other mass shooting that year, resulting in a total of 117 deaths.
Las Vegas police and the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office have yet to release a report on their post-shooting investigation. Since 2017, mass shooting have dramatically declined. In 2018, there were 80 mass shooting deaths, 71 in 2019 and over the last three years including 2022, nine, 42 and 30, respectively.
The definition of “mass shootings” is also slanted to fit the Fascist narrative. For example, many Left-leaning websites, including Wikipedia, claim there were as many as 317 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2020. That is because they pick up on every shooting incident in which more than one person is killed or wounded. But most of those do not fit the FBI profile of “mass shooting.” In fact, most of those are black-on-black crime in which young black men are killing other young black men with stolen or otherwise illegally acquired weapons.
The mass shooter profile is based on the mental state of the shooter and at least four deaths. Including the other shooting incidents only muddies the waters and allows the Fascists to advance their dangerous anti-gun agenda by issuing a dog whistle to their brain-dead sycophantic followers.
The false narrative that we must ban guns to end mass shootings
Several ballot initiatives were undertaken in blue states last year to put an “assault weapons” ban on general election ballots but all failed to aquire sufficient signatures to place the issue before voters. (Photo: Dennis Hatcher/Cleveland Plain Dealer) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fascists love to argue that “the only way to end mass shootings is to ban ‘assault weapons’ and other ‘weapons of war.’”
The argument is nothing less than ludicrous and stupid.
As pointed out earlier in the article, these are not “assault weapons” nor “weapons of war.” Nonetheless, they must be kept out of the hands of potential mass shooters.
When a drunk driver kills someone, we arrest the drunk driver. We don’t hold woke media briefs calling for the banning of alcohol or motor vehicles. There is no rational person who believes that is an adequate, reasonable response to a drunk driving death.
When someone stabs another person, we arrest the assailant and throw him/her in jail. We don’t hold woke media briefings calling for the banning of all knives. There is no rational person who believes that is an adequate, reasonable response to a stabbing death.
When someone sets a fire to a residence or business and people die, we arrest the arsonist and throw him/her in jail. We don’t hold media briefings calling for the banning of matches, lighters or gasoline. There is no rational person who believes that is an adequate, reasonable response to an arson death.
But when a mentally ill person buys or steals a firearm and shoots up a school, shopping mall or church, we may arrest the assailant but Fascists are quick to hold media briefs demanding more gun control, the repeal of the Second Amendment and other totally irrational, ridiculous and unreasonable responses to shooting deaths.
First, just like vehicles, knives and matches if they are left to sit in a garage or lay on a counter or in a drawer, guns in a gun case or closet won’t rush out into the streets on their own and kill someone. It requires a person with evil intent to pick up and use a gun for harm.
That person is, in all cases, mentally ill. A normal, sane person will never hurt another person with a gun or anything else. They will defend their lives, family’s lives and property with a gun, but that is not an irrational act. The mentally ill will irrationally act on perceived wrongs at the hands of others and take revenge, most often with a gun.
The answer to such shootings is not to further restrict or outright ban guns. The answer is the demand our elected officials take normal, sane action. That would include requiring states to conduct a mental health evaluation of all persons, particularly teens, who run afoul of law enforcement or are referred to mental health professionals out of concern for their perhaps fitting the profile of a mass shooter.
If the evaluation finds there is reason for concern, that person’s name must be entered into a national database that tracks potential threats to the public. When such a person attempts to buy a gun, his or her name should pop up in the background check as unfit to own a firearm, and the sale canceled on the spot.
Of course, half the mass shooters steal their parents’ or grandparents’ guns. The most effective way to prevent this to require that gun owners lock their guns away in a safe or a closet with no access available to anyone else in the house. An exception can be made for one handgun kept in a biometric safe for instant access to guard against home invasion.
The dichotomy of arguing for a gun ban when other causes of death are much higher
Though drunk drivers kill twice to three times as many people as there are gun murders each year, the Fascists don’t want to call for a ban on alcohol or vehicles, only guns. (Photo: Julia de Angelis/Kansas City Star) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
It is strange that anti-gun Fascists want to ban guns when drunk drivers, for example, cause far more mayhem each years that guns cause.
Again, the high point for mass shooting deaths in the U.S. was when 117 people died. That same year, drunk drivers killed an alarming 11,624 others. In 2020, when only nine people died at the hands of mass shooters, 10,524 died in drunk driving accidents.
But there is no massive outcry to ban either alcohol or vehicles. Such demands would receive the derision they would richly deserve.
Consider other shooting deaths every year in the U.S. The Fascists love to say that over 15,000 people die every year from gun shots. That number is inaccurate, and they know it.
The FBI Crime Statistics issued every year show the number of homicides in the U.S. The problem is, homicides are not necessarily murders. Fully two-thirds of those deaths each year are ruled justifiable. That is, a police officer or a homeowner was deemed within their rights to use deadly force during the commission of a crime.
So that leaves 5,000 actual murders each year. Over three-fourths of those are black-on-black crime and the weapon is almost always acquired illegally by some 3,500 individuals who think a gun is the answer to their problems with another person.
Compare those numbers to the 250 million legal gun owners in the U.S. These are almost universally normal, sane individuals who only will sue their guns to defend lives, property and to hunt. But as determined by District of Columbia v. Heller, they are protected in their gun ownership not only for those purposes but to defend against tyranny that may arise from their own government.
Why will Fascists not demand something be done about drunk drivers? Or cancer, that kills over 400,000 people ever year. Or heart disease, that kills over 300,000 people a year?
Because like Hitler before them in Nazi Germany, our modern-day American Fascists want to disarm U.S. citizens. They don’t want to be challenged in their attempted destruction of American democracy so they can institute their elitist “utopia” in which they have all the freedoms and liberties and we have none.
The Biden cabal is deliberately setting out to destroy our economy to force an energy crisis in which they can dictate who drives, who buys gas, or that we all have to buy electric vehicles. Our guns will stop them from doing so, and they know that.
Our nation, our freedom, our rights are under undisguised attack. We cannot let them take away everything we have fought for with blood and tears for 241 years. We must stand up to the tyranny that confronts us now.
Mike Nichols is an advocate of the counterrevolution with a four-step plan to defeat Leftist Fascism: We Organize. We Stand. We Resist. We Fight. He is a regular contributor to several conservative news websites and has a regular blog and Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.