A leading gun-control group has finally admitted it: they want to take your weapons away.
March For Our Lives, originally created by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, launched a new gun control plan on Wednesday, they want to ban some weapons, confiscate others and reshape the Supreme Court to avoid the annoying Second Amendment. That is just for starters.
The plan has a noble objective, seeks to reduce the number of gun deaths by 50 percent in the next 10 years.
To achieve that, March for Our Lives proposes to ban assault weapons. Revealingly, they never explain that term. If something is so dangerous that the government needs to ban it, they must at least define what they are talking about.
The recommendations go further: assault weapons, whatever they may be, would be subject to a mandatory “buy-back.” Give up your weapon or go to jail. Even the 1994 assault weapons ban contained a clause for previously legal weapons.
This recommendation is more about gun stealing than saving lives. The highest-profile gun deaths come from mass shootings, those killers often use AR-15 style rifles, the rhetoric of March For Our Lives makes it appear that these weapons are used in most of the 40,000 annual firearm deaths in the country. Well no, not even close.
Two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides, there were seven thousand gun killings in 2017 according to FBI statistics. Compare that with 403 rifle killings; there were fewer murders with rifles than knives (used in 1,600 murders) and with blunt objects like hammers, used in 467 murders. Observe how often the mainstream media mention these narrative statistics, or this one: homicides with firearms have decreased by a third since 1993, despite the fact that the number of weapons per inhabitant increased by 50 percent between 1993 and 2012.
If they really believe that the ban will save lives, they would start trying to ban guns, knives, and hammers. That wouldn’t fly politically, so gun thieves aren’t trying … yet, eventually, they will. The elimination of all murders committed with rifles would achieve a one percent reduction in firearm deaths. A ban on handguns is inevitable once the plan of this group does not meet its stated objective, a 50 percent reduction in firearm deaths.
To implement these weapons bans, the Supreme Court needs to reverse the Second Amendment. March for Our Lives explicitly calls for a “national conversation” about the restructuring of the Supreme Court with the goal of doing just that.
The best way to stop mass shootings is for people to go to the police when those around them act suspiciously. Good news! Just that is happening. Since the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, police have arrested 29 people for threats of mass shootings, a Daytona Beach man, was arrested lst Friday after sending several text messages that included threats about shooting at large crowds and hoping for large kill counts, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
Thus, not removing weapons, is how massive shootings stop. Plans like this, however, make it obvious: however noble their intentions may be, the objective is the confiscation of weapons. Preventing horrible acts of violence is simply good coverage.
