{"id":74458,"date":"2021-11-19T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74458"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:11:17","slug":"74458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74458","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Defeat the Lies of Gun Control with Facts<\/a><\/p>\n

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace went on a rant that targeted conservative media and the Second Amendment. It\u2019s one that Second Amendment supporters should pay some heed to, even though Wallace these days is little more than a Beltway version of Regina George.<\/p>\n

Wallace may be a NeverTrump \u201cmean girl\u201d these days, but she also was \u2013 at least putatively \u2013 a one-time Second Amendment supporter (and she worked for a President who appointed two of the five justices in the\u00a0Heller<\/em>\u00a0majority). She also was a White House communications director, and as much as we may want to dismiss her, dummies don\u2019t become White House communications directors. People who show loyalty and competence usually get that job.<\/p>\n

This is why her claim that America has a gun crisis needs to be taken on, forcefully. Like\u00a0David Frum\u2019s lie<\/a>\u00a0about responsible gun ownership and the phony bologna claims about the origins of the Second Amendment from\u00a0Carol Anderson (via the ACLU)<\/a>, we must push back. These lies are not small potatoes.<\/p>\n

How do we fight back? With the facts.<\/h3>\n

Some of these facts come from looking over the\u00a0latest FBI stats<\/a>. In 2020, a total of 455 homicides were carried out with rifles, with another 203 carried out by shotguns. To put that into perspective, \u201cpersonal weapons\u201d (hands, fists, feet, etc.) killed 662 people or more than rifles and shotguns of all types\u00a0combined<\/em>. Handguns and \u201cfirearms, type not stated\u201d were used in 8,209 and 4,863 homicides, respectively.<\/p>\n

There are roughly 150 million handguns in the United States, according to an\u00a0NRA-ILA Fact Sheet<\/a>. That means in 2020, .0054 percent of handguns were used in homicides or one in 18,272.627603. It should be noted that since the landmark\u00a0Heller<\/a>\u00a0ruling in 2008, the Supreme Court has held that handgun bans are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The next fact that Wallace ignores is that we know what has caused the latest upswing in violent crime: No prosecuting the violent offenders. Take some of the\u00a0outrageous decisions<\/a>\u00a0from Chicago, for instance, or for the\u00a0prosecutors<\/a>\u00a0whose campaigns\u00a0George Soros<\/a>\u00a0has funded. Even if authorities can\u2019t get murder charges perhaps some of the rarely-used provisions of\u00a018 USC 922<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a018 USC 924<\/a>\u00a0could make a dent. The problem is, these aren\u2019t used, and similar state-level provisions also aren\u2019t used.<\/p>\n

Second Amendment supporters can debate the wisdom of various gun laws, but the laws that\u00a0Project Exile<\/a>\u00a0enforced can and would make a huge difference\u00a0in the places<\/a>\u00a0that are seeing the worst of violent crime. Part of the way dishonest hacks and anti-Second Amendment extremists will sell the false notion of a \u201dgun crisis\u201d (especially in the\u00a0\u201cpublic health\u201d<\/a>\u00a0arena) is to point to murder rates and violent crime.<\/p>\n

The ultimate task for Second Amendment supporters is to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local level \u2013 not to mention in corporate boardrooms and elsewhere. However, to do that, they need to not only prove claims of a \u201cgun crisis\u201d are phony, they need to show that the solution to the real crisis is not found in attacking the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defeat the Lies of Gun Control with Facts MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace went on a rant that targeted conservative media and the Second Amendment. It\u2019s one that Second Amendment supporters should pay some heed to, even though Wallace these days is little more than a Beltway version of Regina George. Wallace may be a NeverTrump … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74460,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions\/74460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}