Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Obviously a terrible tragedy, but of course now Democrats are jumping to politicize it.
This one isn't about race, as a Hispanic 18-year-old committed the crime against mostly Hispanic victims. The left also can't make this about ideology, because if anything, he was probably gay and/or some form of trans.
Instead we are getting a gun control discussion.
While I could accept some common sense gun law reform, I am worried that it will start a slippery slope of increasing "reform" until we have full gun control.
Look at the gay marriage situation. In the mid-2000s, Republicans (and many Democrats, including Barack Obama) were against legalizing gay marriage. Eventually public sentiment changed, and gay marriage became widely legal (and publicly accepted) in the 2010s. That's fine, and doesn't really hurt anyone. However, look how far we've come since then. We've gone from gay marriage to 100 genders, trans women in women's sports, and trans 3-year-olds. Anyone who would have predicted such a thing back in 2008 would have been laughed off the stage as a crazy homophobe. Unfortunately, the (reasonable) legalization of gay marriage opened the door to a lot of the really harmful shit we are seeing today with all of the extreme trans bullshit.
I'm afraid we will see the same with gun control. We might see the ban of assault rifles like AR-15s, the implementation of universal background checks, and the changing of the age of purchase to 21 from 18. However, soon enough we will see idiotic and harmful measures such as elimination of magazines over 10 rounds, elimination of conceal/carry permits, and many other poorly conceived "reforms". We also might see enough bans on semi-automatic weapons to where they will be illegal to own, and criminals will be confident they always have the average citizen and business owner outgunned.
I simply can't trust Democrats to pass reasonable gun reform, and then stop there. They never "stop there". They always want to keep pushing.
Finally, we just need to go back 2 short years to remember what life was like for many unarmed citizens. The BLM riots of 2020 went unchecked, and police were told to stand down. The old narrative of, "Call the police if you are in danger" didn't work anymore. If you called the police, they wouldn't come. You were on your own to protect yourself and/or your business. Guns and ammo sales hit record highs in 2020. Support for gun control laws dropped big time.
Finally, while it is very sad to think about children getting shot in schools by psychos, these are only a very small percentage of murders committed in the US, even if you only look at murders against children. Democrats are not interested in taking measures to bring down the high murder rate in the US -- only the type of murders which they feel have a proper villain (the gun industry). I have a very hard time believing that Democrats care about preventing violent crime, when they are always the ones attempting to shorten sentences for criminals, eliminate the death penalty and mandatory minimums, and defund police.
Until Democrats show they are serious about really tackling violent crime in this country, they need to shut their traps about a particular kind of crime which only accounts for a tiny percentage of murders each year.