17 Inconvenient Facts For the Gun-Control Movement

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17 Inconvenient Facts For the Gun-Control Movement

by BRIAN MCCOMBIE March 26, 2022

Imagine if you only read The Washington Post and only watched MSNBC and like-minded media outlets. If you did that, you might be deceived into thinking America is a regular Wild West Show of daily mass shootings. You might think guns themselves are evil and that crime is the fault of people who legally own firearms.

You might even believe that an American citizen could simply go online and buy a machine gun, as former President Barack Obama (D) once told us. You might also think that suppressors are the tools of assassins, and that semi-automatic rifles with pistol grips are commonly used by criminals. Perhaps you’d even surmise that President Joe Biden (D) was making a good point when he suggested a ban on pistols chambered in 9 mm.

At best, many of these gun-control narratives are simply based on ignorance of firearms. At their worst, a considerable percentage of the mainstream media’s storylines regarding the Second Amendment are outright falsehoods meant to convince people to vote away their freedom.

Every issue of America’s 1st Freedom is filled with sourced facts and honest perspectives designed to arm citizens with the truth, but sometimes these kinds of list articles are needed to refute the shotgun patterns of anti-Second Amendment propaganda coming from the mainstream media and gun-control groups.

Full article at:

An Official Journal Of The NRA | 17 Inconvenient Facts For the Gun-Control Movement

The truth can be a moving target as our understanding evolves with new data, but we must try to hit the target every time and be honest about our mistakes. This, however, isn't what the gun-control crowd tries to do.

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[Uzi2]

Every issue of America’s 1st Freedom is filled with sourced facts and honest perspectives designed to arm citizens with the truth, but sometimes ALWAYS these kinds of list articles are needed to refute the shotgun patterns of anti-Second Amendment propaganda coming from the mainstream media and gun-control groups.

Fixed.

 

[AHM]

17 Inconvenient Facts For the Gun-Control Movement

Unreadable pap.

 

[Snora]

If someone is anti-gun they're not going to care about the number of deaths, percentages of suicides from gun deaths, percentage of mass shootings, etc. The argument has always been "one death is too many" and there's no response that will matter.

 

[Kevin_NH]

If someone is anti-gun they're not going to care about the number of deaths, percentages of suicides from gun deaths, percentage of mass shootings, etc. The argument has always been "one death is too many" and there's no response that will matter.

Neither side is looking to sway the "true believer", facts and graphs aren't going to convince the kind of person who is donating to advocacy orgs and showing up at rallies.

But the average Jane who uncritically accepts the mass media parroting of the anti-gun groups propaganda? She might be swayed by factual arguments with citations, or at least start wondering if all the hype is closer to "reefer madness" than to reality.

 

[AHM]

... the average Jane who uncritically accepts the mass media parroting of the anti-gun groups propaganda? She might be swayed by factual arguments with citations, or at least start wondering if all the hype is closer to "reefer madness" than to reality.

The uncommitted middle is the crucial audience,
but 17 paragraphs of incomprehensible percentages
will never be read to convince them.

 

[MaverickNH]

The uncommitted middle is the crucial audience,
but 17 paragraphs of incomprehensible percentages
will never be read to convince them.

Agreed. With single-digits millions of reaching recipients, so few receive the Am1stFreedom mag that the likelihood of on-the-fence hunters reading such articles is slim. Not even Fox News reprints NRA articles, so it’s mostly preaching to an empty choir loft. I flip through each issue on the way from the mailbox and drop it in the trash in the garage, most times.

Vicarious experience and fears drive increased gun ownership - even the liberal news can’t help but run stories about rising crime and government failings. Nobody in the Northeast rushes out to buy more fire extinguishers when wild fires burn up the West, but they buy guns when there is rioting, looting and burning elsewhere around the country.

I know one VT progressive who bought a gun when threatened by a crazy - his local Chief of Police recommended he get a pistol. He sold it when the crazy was jailed, but bought a rifle when he moved to desolate Northern VT. Just to keep the varmints away from the chickens, he said. But years after he gave up his chicken roost, it still leans by the front door. His wife always mentions the unsolved robbery/murder of a couple in their home a few towns distant. But it’s a respectable wooden-stocked rifle in a hunting caliber, with a 5rd mag (and two more in a drawer by the door). They are Sandy Hook donors…

 

[Kevin_NH]

Nobody in the Northeast rushes out to buy more fire extinguishers when wild fires burn up the West...

They probably should've -- fire is one of the greatest "beyond your control" threats to any American household.

Increased wildfire awareness did, in fact, lead me to reconsider the advice from the local fire marshal that the best thing I could do for home fire prevention (aside from annual chimney cleanings) would be to retrofit a home sprinkler system. I went as far as to research "dry pipe" (due to where the lines would need to run) and insurance discounts.

I didn't rush out to buy more fire extinguishers -- still have a few years left on the fleet acquired from the 2017 Kidde recall.

With single-digits millions of reaching recipients, so few receive the Am1stFreedom mag that the likelihood of on-the-fence hunters reading such articles is slim. Not even Fox News reprints NRA articles, so it’s mostly preaching to an empty choir loft. I flip through each issue on the way from the mailbox and drop it in the trash in the garage, most times

Agreed -- between the NRA burning through what little good will they had, and many media outlets printing Everytown press releases as gospel, the pro-2A side has yet no credible way to reach those on-the-fence.

 

[VetteGirlMA]

Facts don't matter to the gun grabbers. If they need facts they simple manufacture something from whole cloth by finding some ivory tower elitist who will happily toss them a white paper in exchange for a check.

 

[paul73]

If someone is anti-gun they're not going to care about the number of deaths, percentages of suicides from gun deaths, percentage of mass shootings, etc. The argument has always been "one death is too many" and there's no response that will matter.

The false narrative will continue and will be enforced as government wants same thing criminals want - population is required to be disarmed, obedient, submissive and defenseless.
It is one and only imperative that will continue to be enforced, by both Dems and gop as they all want to rule you without any chance for a defiance.

 

[greencobra]

The false narrative will continue and will be enforced as government wants same thing criminals want...

well, in all fairness, as long as gun control is a vote magnet, it's always going to be on the liberals agenda.

 

[paul73]

well, in all fairness, as long as gun control is a vote magnet, it's always going to be on the liberals agenda.

Socialists always push for a defenseless population laws as it allows them to enslave the workforce and confiscate the profits to establish their unobstructed rule.

They make all defenseless and then sell increasingly brutal policing laws as a ‘defense’ against the dangers they intentionally created.

People will be fed all possible lies and reasons until riot police will get full freedom and safety to brutalize population without any restraints.

But a majority of population are imbeciles and will not understand anything until their skulls will be crushed and all they will have to protect themselves will be wooden sticks against governments rifles.

And then - listen to people screaming into windows in Shanghai, again.

 

[AHM]

well, in all fairness, as long as gun control is a vote magnet, it's always going to be on the liberals agenda.