Criminals Do Not Care About Gun Laws
As I listened to Joe Biden last Thursday spill a bunch of nonsense on national television about gun control without offering real solutions, one can only wonder.
I am not one to delve on conspiracy theories, but after having a conversation about the 18-year-old, Uvalde shooter, I developed a few questions worth asking.
How an 18-year-old with a fast-food job could afford to buy such expensive weapons?
Where did he get the money? $9,000.00 worth of guns!
Who gave him the money?
Unlike the false claim by Joe Biden that the Uvalde shooter’s sister purchased the weapons for him when he was seventeen years old, reports coming out of Uvalde indicates he legally purchased two Daniel Defense, AR-style rifles days after his 18th birthday.
In addition, this information was corroborated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives during a state senate committee hearing.
As a firearms instructor and retired Federal agent, I can tell you Daniel Defense makes one of the best AR-style rifles in the world and they are not something an 18-year-old, without solid means, could afford to buy. This individual bought two of them. These are questions worth entertaining.
It has been proven that some of these individuals hang out in dark websites where likeminded people share their sick ideas with one another. It does not take much for an adult to poison the mind of an 18-year-old with crazy ideas, and to offer him or her the means to accomplish their nefarious plans.
I am not saying the Uvalde shooter was a tool for someone else’s sick plan, but as the Democrats continue to push for gun control and a complete repeal of the 2nd amendment, one begs the question.
On Thursday’s speech, Joe Biden cited the CDC by saying guns are the biggest killer of children in America, worse than car accidents and cancer.
According to CDC data, 4,368 kids died from gunshot wounds in the US in 2020. Of those, 2,811 were considered homicides, 1,293 were suicides. 149 were listed as “unintentional” deaths, and 25 were classified as “legal interventions.” Ninety of the deaths could not be classified due to a lack of information.
One death is one too many, but we need to examine the circumstances behind the cases in order to arrive at a logical conclusion and a viable solution. Legislation based on feelings is not sound and most of the time it does not solves the problem.
When talking about the Uvalde shooting, Biden claimed the shooting was so massive, “parents had to do DNA swabs to identify remains of their children.” This is normal procedure Joe. Anything that helps to properly identify a victim is used during the criminal investigation and victim identification.
He asked the congress to do something about it. Among the things he wants include but are not limited to a new assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban.
The original ban was enacted in 1994 and expired in 2004. Joe Biden claims during the 10-year ban, mass shootings were significantly lower than since its expiration. There is not enough research nor information to corroborate or deny Biden’s claims.
The fact is that most crimes involving a firearm are not perpetrated with rifles or shotguns, but with handguns.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476409/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-weapon-types-used/
He asked for a raise in the age limit from 18 to 21 years of age to purchase an AR based firearm. I do not have a problem with that. A military trained 18-year-old is much different than an 18-year-old with no weapon’s handling education.
He wants the government to enact “red flag laws” at the federal level. According to him, this would allow parents, teachers, and school chancellors to ask courts to prohibit gun purchases by children with violent or suicidal tendencies.
This is a trojan horse for government intrusion into people’s homes. Children cannot purchase firearms in the United States until they reach the age established by the state they live in.
He also asked for laws strengthening gun storage and personal liability for unsecured guns. Every single gun owner I know understands and practice proper gun storage. This is not a national crisis, and it does not need federal government intervention. Several states are already passed legislation on these issues.
Joe Biden asked for legislation holding gun manufacturers responsible for the actions of these murderers. Of course, Biden does not know what he is taking about.
By his illogical thought pattern, we would have to also enact legislation to hold car manufacturers responsible for deaths caused by their vehicles in the hands of irresponsible drivers.
Lastly, the idea that universal background checks will keep away guns from the hands of criminals is ridiculous. Criminals do not purchase their guns from an authorized FFL dealer, they buy them from other criminals in dark alleys. This is nothing more than an attempt at record keeping on law abiding citizens and the whereabouts of firearms throughout the United States.
He went on to say the rights on the Constitution were not “absolute”, including the 2nd amendment. “the right of people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That sounds pretty absolute to me, and the United States Supreme Court has affirmed its absoluteness in many court rulings.
When a president tells its people their rights are no longer guaranteed, he or she are no longer the president of a republic, but a petty dictator, and Joe Biden sounded just like one.
Mass shootings are horrible and destroy families, but they have to be examined individually as motivations differ from each other.
The Buffalo shooter was motivated by race. As of today, the Uvalde shooter’s motivation remains unknown, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Saint Francis Hospital shooter, blamed his doctor for his pain after surgery, and the Oklahoma festival shooter killed 1 and injured several after gunfire preceded an argument.
Unfortunately, we have an administration and a Democratic Party controlled congress who does not care for the Constitution or our rights under it.
If Joe Biden thought he could get away with it, he would try to the same thing Justin Trudeau has done in Canada, he would ban all sales of firearms in the United States.
Nobody wants mass shootings, or any shootings to happen. I do not know anyone who enjoys the murder of children in schools or doctors in a hospital, but for the Democrats to politicize such deaths is despicable and inhumane.
As usual, Joe Biden offered a lot of whispers with empty rhetoric. The Democrats do not want common sense gun legislation, they want to strip Americans of their legally owned firearms and the outright repeal of the 2nd amendment.
The 2nd amendment is the only right keeping this country from becoming Venezuela.