In a recent article from the noted public safety experts at Rolling Stone magazine, they reported “more Americans feel less safe when it comes to people legally carrying concealed guns in public.” Of course, feeling safe means diddly squat when you aren’t ACTUALLY safe.
The story, a collaboration with anti-gun mouthpiece The Trace, is based on the conclusion-directed research funded by the Gun Control, Inc cabal. Entitled “Multi-Generational Research: Purchases, Perceptions, and Participation for the Firearms Industry”, it describes how non-firearm owners as well as current firearm owners don’t “feel” safe with other people carrying concealed firearms in public. It then launches into attacking the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) and the proposed Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act currently working its way through Congress.
<deep sigh>
Have we heard this BS before? Of course. I, along with many others have pointed out the fallacies they present, as well as straight out lies the anti-gun community tells numerous times. But, since they continue to spread this crapola, let’s say it again.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, among other things, removed the ability of states to require applicants for a concealed carry permit show “proper cause”. This ended the highly discretionary and discriminatory practice of issuing permits to a very select few or essentially no one. Combine this with the fact there are currently 29 states which have returned to Constitutional Carry status, that is the ability for citizens of that state to carry a concealed firearm for self-defense without a government issued permit, and more people than ever before are carrying a firearm for personal protection EXCEPT in the most gun-controlled states.
Gun Control, Inc. has argued in every state and in federal courts that the result of loosening their highly restrictive concealed carry permit requirements would result in states “becoming the wild, wild west”, “blood running in the streets” and “people settling arguments with guns”. Of course, the result has always been the exact opposite. Violent crime rates fell, and ordinary, everyday people are ACTUALLY safer.
The recent horrific shooting inside an office building in New York highlights the utter failure of gun control. New York, which earns an A rating from the Gun Control, Inc. affiliates, with every gun law on the gun control wish list in place, and New York City, with unquestionably the most restrictive concealed carry restrictions in the nation, did nothing to protect the victims of this crime. With no effective means of self-defense, unarmed civilians became unarmed victims.
But where does New York place the blame? On gun laws in Nevada allowing this type of firearm to be purchased legally. No mention of the New York laws which the perpetrator broke in bringing firearms, so-called “large capacity magazines”, and ammunition into New York or carrying them in public. But then, homicide is illegal too, but once again, that didn’t stop him either.
This is a common tactic for the most gun-controlled areas of the country when someone uses a firearm in a crime. It’s not THEIR fault someone broke THEIR gun control laws, it’s the OTHER state’s loose gun laws that allowed the criminal to obtain them in the first place. Because of THEM, they were able to bring guns into their safe havens and use it on THEIR unarmed victims.
The thing is the areas where they say these firearms come from don’t have the same crime and violence as the heavily gun controlled areas do. Understanding why is easy. Armed people are able to protect themselves and criminals prefer unarmed victims. Go figure.
New York loves to make people “feel” safer. Last year it began installing new, brighter lights in the subway system. “Riders are going to see a difference, it will be brighter. Your platforms, mezzanines, and staircases will now be lighter and brighter and that will give the sense of comfort that the system is more safe.” As you might expect, it hasn’t helped, and crime has continued along as always. People are not safer, just better illuminated.
So the question becomes, what would you rather have, a false sense of feeling safer or being safer?
Being safer is having the knowledge and capability to protect yourself and your family, in your home or out in public, with the best tools available for the job. But it goes beyond that. Being safer means taking the responsibility of owning, carrying and using firearms seriously. It not only means the right equipment it means training in the use of your firearms as well as situational awareness, de-escalation techniques and non-lethal self-defense tools, because not every situation is a deadly force one. It means knowing the law and knowing what your personal, moral, and ethical limits are. It means having an emergency plan for your home and when you are in public. It means constantly assessing what is going on around you and how you are going to mitigate those risks.
But I’m going to take being safer one step further. It means doing everything you can to ensure a safer environment for the next generation of your family. It means stopping asinine, do-nothing gun control laws that have never made the public safer in their tracks. It means voting out your political representatives at the local, county, state, and federal level when it becomes clear they will not follow their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, ALL the Constitution. It means finding and electing new representation who will or, maybe standing up yourself.
Feeling safe means nothing if you aren’t actually safe. Reject the gun control lies and propaganda and decide what is right for you and your family.
Bob
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