Just what we need, another high school dropout, brainwashed by radical leftists, using her celebrity podium to blubber at peaceable, lawful citizens who doubtlessly are better informed. Citing rare catastrophic events and falsely representing them as common has become the leftist daily drill. Every time they hear a gunshot, they begin howling that a hundred million peaceable, lawful citizens who weren't there should be punished with more regulation. The uninformed believe it but most are fed up with this nonsense. For example, the disputed no-fly bill contains this outrageous line: “No district court of the United States or court of appeals of the United States shall have jurisdiction to consider the lawfulness or constitutionality of this section…” And the caterwauling drowns out the FBI claim that denying gun sales to suspected terrorists alerts them that they’re being watched. More to the point, denying constitutionally affirmed civil rights through the use of a no-fly list would lead to the next step, a no-railroad list, and then a no driver’s license list and on and on. These laws are absurd and as usual, distractions and non-issues. There is no epidemic. The U.S. is one of the safest nations on the earth. Disarming citizens won’t make us safer and likely would open the door for a spike in crime rates.
What's missing from this particularly ignorant leftist is the data necessary to convince us that more laws will be effective. Instead of blindly accepting what leftists feed us, they need to start dealing with the real problem -- not gun murders -- just murders. Gun homicides are just part of the total reported murders per 100,000 population. In 1993 the number was seven. That number was reduced to 3.8 per 100,000 by 2013. Of 218 nations measured, the U.S. now ranks 98th, about in the middle. Stated another way, your chances of being murdered in the U.S. are 38 thousandths of a percent (.000038). In the U.K., your chances are .8 thousandths of a percent (.000008). That’s a difference of 30 thousandths of a percent, a very small number any way you look at it. Leftists often say your chances of being murdered in the U.S. are almost five times as great as in the U.K. But five times almost nothing is still almost nothing. By the way, over the last 20 years, crime among African-American youth has fallen by 47 percent. That should surprise no one because the vast majority of Americans live in open carry states where all categories of crime are at record lows. In other words this is a non-issue.
