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MYTH: "Incidents like the Parkland shooting demand gun control"
Deaths from mass shootings get all the headlines, but they are extremely rare compared to other violent crime, even now. There have been 1135 mass shooting deaths since 1966 (Washington Post). Inner city gang shootings will exceed that number every year, as do homicides committed by people who are not legally in the country. The ice.gov website enumerates 2038 homicides committed by illegal immigrants they deported in 2018 and a similar number in 2017.
Thus we see that gang enforcement and border control would stop more homicides every year than the total number of mass shooting victims since 1966.
The Douglas High shooting was a textbook case of failure of "the authorities" who want to confiscate your guns and their so-called policies. The authorities tell us: "See Something, Say Something". Niklaus Cruz had already been banned from the school due to his previous behavior. Local residents called the Broward Sheriffs to the shooter's home 45 times. No arrests, because the Broward County Sheriff chose to take money from the PROMISE program to divert teen offenders to counseling instead of arrests. Residents called the FBI twice. No arrest, even after Cruz posted a video saying he wants to be a school shooter. With no arrests, Cruz passed the background check to buy the murder weapon. So who dropped the ball on that? Not gun owners, who are being blamed for his crimes.
The authorities say the police will protect us. Yet the four Broward County deputies who were on the scene when Cruz started shooting kids stayed outside. Would it not have been better if SOMEONE in the school had at least a chance to stop the killing spree? Would YOU fight back if YOU had means to resist?
The Sheriff even ran to a CNN "Town Hall" event to blame the NRA for the murders his policies enabled and his deputies declined to stop. This sequence of real events would fail the smell test for a TV drama.
Deaths from mass shootings get all the headlines, but they are extremely rare compared to other violent crime, even now. There have been 1135 mass shooting deaths since 1966 (Washington Post). Inner city gang shootings will exceed that number every year, as do homicides committed by people who are not legally in the country. The ice.gov website enumerates 2038 homicides committed by illegal immigrants they deported in 2018 and a similar number in 2017.
Thus we see that gang enforcement and border control would stop more homicides every year than the total number of mass shooting victims since 1966.
The Douglas High shooting was a textbook case of failure of "the authorities" who want to confiscate your guns and their so-called policies. The authorities tell us: "See Something, Say Something". Niklaus Cruz had already been banned from the school due to his previous behavior. Local residents called the Broward Sheriffs to the shooter's home 45 times. No arrests, because the Broward County Sheriff chose to take money from the PROMISE program to divert teen offenders to counseling instead of arrests. Residents called the FBI twice. No arrest, even after Cruz posted a video saying he wants to be a school shooter. With no arrests, Cruz passed the background check to buy the murder weapon. So who dropped the ball on that? Not gun owners, who are being blamed for his crimes.
The authorities say the police will protect us. Yet the four Broward County deputies who were on the scene when Cruz started shooting kids stayed outside. Would it not have been better if SOMEONE in the school had at least a chance to stop the killing spree? Would YOU fight back if YOU had means to resist?
The Sheriff even ran to a CNN "Town Hall" event to blame the NRA for the murders his policies enabled and his deputies declined to stop. This sequence of real events would fail the smell test for a TV drama.