Gun controllers' belief that "easy" gun availability is our problem ignores U.S. history. dailysign.al/2BPUZ6F via @WE_Williams @DailySignal
@WE_Williams @DailySignal By the way, AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle, which is manufactured by Colt Manufacturing Co. As for being a military assault weapon, our soldiers would be laughed off the battlefield carrying AR-15s.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal You decide how many homicides would be prevented by a ban on rifles. The FBI lists murder victims by weapon from 2014 to 2018 in its 2018 report on crime in the United States. It turns out that slightly over 2% (297) out of a total of 14,123 homicides were committed with rifles.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal A total of 1,515 or 11% of homicides were committed by knives. 443 people were murdered with a hammer, club, or some other bludgeoning instrument. 672 people were murdered by a hand, foot, or fist. Handguns accounted for the most murders—6,603.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal The so-called assault weapons ban and mandatory buy-back, which Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke and others call for, will do little or nothing to bring down homicides. More homicides could be prevented by advocating knife control, hammer control, and feet and fist control.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal Gun controllers’ belief that “easy” gun availability is our problem ignores U.S. history. Guns were far more readily available yesteryear. One could mail order a gun from Sears or walk into a hardware store or a pawnshop to make a purchase.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal With truly easy gun availability throughout our history, there was nowhere near the mayhem and mass murder that we see today. Here’s my question to all who want restrictions placed on gun sales: Were the firearms of yesteryear better behaved than those same firearms are today?
@WE_Williams @DailySignal That’s really a silly question; guns are inanimate objects and have no capacity to act. Our problem is a widespread decline in moral values that has nothing to do with guns.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal That decline includes disrespect for those in authority, disrespect for oneself, little accountability for anti-social behavior, and a scuttling of religious teachings that reinforce moral values.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal If any American who passed away before 1960 were to return to today’s America, they would not believe the kind of personal behavior acceptable today. They wouldn’t believe that youngsters could get away with cursing at and assaulting teachers.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal They wouldn’t believe that cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and Baltimore hire hundreds of school police officers and that in some schools, students must go through metal detectors.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal During my own primary and secondary schooling in Philadelphia, from 1942 to 1954, the only time we saw a policeman in school was during an assembly period where we had to listen to a boring lecture from Officer Friendly on safety.
@WE_Williams @DailySignal Americans who call for stricter and stricter gun control know that getting rid of rifles will do little or nothing for the nation’s homicide rate. Their calls for more restrictive gun laws are part of a larger strategy to outlaw gun ownership altogether
@WE_Williams @DailySignal You have to wonder what these people have in store for us when they’ve eliminated our means to defend ourselves.
