Thread by @AndrewCFollett

I actually grew up very close to that Walmart...went to High School about 15 minutes driveaway.

I've been to it many many times. Its a horrendous tragedy.

And anyone who is using this tragedy to advance a political agenda while the bodies are still warm is sick.

https://twitter.com/tickerNEWSco/status/1595281738124886017

I didn’t want to post about this, because frankly, it is exhausting and its personal. I’ve been having this exact same argument for my entire adult life.

Here's some evidence to debunk the inevitable nonsense the media will spew.

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529577076419923968?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

I 100% know pretty much exactly every single thing an anti-gun person will say at this point...the same old tired nonsense the wheel out of storage every time there's a tragedy on the news they can milk for political points.

They'll do that for #Chesapeake, my home town, too.

The simple reality of the situation is that the US is a very large country by global standards. Mass shootings aren't a US only issue as the liars in the press and their hack friends will say

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529577079808868352?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

A whole lot of "nice" nations (by which the vultures means "Western Europe) have much higher "mass shooting deaths per capita" than the US does...including France, Germany, Norway, Spain, etc

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529577086372937729?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

Those countries all have very strict gun control.

According to this 2018 study (surveying data over an 18 year period), US is 64th in world in terms of mass shooting per capita. That sounds worse than it is cause most countries don't track this data.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

You WILL be lied to a lot in the coming days about how only gun control can solve this.

The reality is that the LOWEST gun homicide rates in America are in...Wyoming...where 59.7% of homes have a gun and which has the LEAST restrictive gun laws.

findlaw.com/state/wyoming-…

Whereas the "state" with the HIGHEST gun homicide rate is...Washington DC...which has the strictest gun laws in the country and ownership rates below most Euro countries.

findlaw.com/state/dc-law/d…

If stricter gun laws reduced gun violence rates, you'd expect jurisdictions with those laws to have lower rates of gun violence.

Instead, the opposite appears to be true. Data CLEARLY says gun laws don't stop gun homicide.

Same is true at the city level too...

To pick on @FearTheFloof, St. Louis, America's most gun homicide heavy city(and 9th most violent in the world) has insanely strict local gun laws

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529580324694507525?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

You know how to ACTUALLY convince me you're serious about reducing gun homicide?

When you actually bring down gun homicide rates in jurisdictions you've politically dominated FOR DECADES using the tactics you want to "go national" with.

One glance at gun homicide rates in St. Lo, Chicago, or Baltimore (all of which have been run by anti-gun Democrats FOR DECADES) proves that said tactics do not work.

Yet Libs blame everyone BUT the folks in charge of those jurisdictions.

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529583799012667394?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

This isn't to say that there aren't some laws that work...

We KNOW cracking down on straw buyers for example does.

But I've never seen a Lib even talk about actually enforcing those laws...despite them being the most effective.

https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1529583802850463745?s=20&t=y3uw8ZJrqUpGMdxBhHwe7A

Here's a rather well reported Washington Post (yah, a random act of accidental journalism) story on how this works.

washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/o…

If you can't read it, its the saga of one specific straw purchased gun being used in a dozen criminal acts.

Libs gun control debate is entirely media driven to gin up outrage 4 political points, not solve the problem

Its an attempt to shift the responsibility for criminal violence AWAY from the criminals who did it and onto 3rd parties that are easier to police for OBVIOUS fiscal benefit for Lib interest groups.

You can't sue Baker (the guy who bought the gun in the WaPo story) or Stunna (rapper who acquired the gun and used it horribly). There's no $ in that.

But u can shake down Bob' Shotgun Emporium or Remington & that's what Libs ACTUALLY want

Meanwhile, a few U.S. ZIP codes, practically all of them represented exclusively by political party which always promotes gun control, are plagued by gun homicides and nobody in power is willing to lift a pinky finger to do anything meaningful about it.

Instead, they use these horrendous tragedies to try to...punish folks in political opposition to them.

Its downright SICK.