There is a simple reason why Democrats have no credibility when calling for gun control. It can be boiled down to a simple truth. When Democrats don’t get what they want (regardless of the law), they call for violence in the streets.
The nation saw the Democrat riots of 2020. Before the riots, Democrat leaders “dog whistled” to their base about how they expect “violence in the streets” if Derek Chauvin is acquitted of murder or Donald Trump gets elected for a second term. Across the nation, businesses boarded up before the election in preparation for Democrats destroying businesses if their guy didn’t win the election. This is not the conduct of civil society and certainly not of conservatives who respect our system of constitutional law. Conservatives don’t resort to violence to settle political differences; liberals do.
The very first right enumerated in our Constitution is the right to life. Many were killed or seriously injured in the Democrat riots of 2020. We saw people assaulted by violent mobs for no reason other than how they looked, where they lived, or their known or assumed political associations. It was a “You’re with us or against us” mentality the rioters had.
Peaceful and civil citizens feared for their lives in the face of such a deadly mob. When you are innocent, and your life is threatened, you have the right to respond with force equal to that with which you are threatened. If you face a fatal threat, you can respond with lethal force. Guns are the great equalizer (and, in many cases, the only practical tool) to save your life from a violent (liberal) mob. If you are being attacked by a mob of 30 liberals, a revolver with six rounds will not be enough to stop the mob from killing you, but an AR15 with a 30-round magazine can.
The Democrats know this and seek to disarm conservatives. Once this occurs, the Constitution is negated, and mob rule becomes the law of the land.
The Democrats also know that citizens will only endure riots for so long. The people hope law enforcement will arrest and prosecute rioters and ensure public safety. With calls to defund police, no cash bail, suspended sentences, warrants not being enforced, and prosecutors not imprisoning violent offenders, people lose trust in law enforcement.
The reason we, the people, hire police is so that the citizenry doesn’t handle justice. When citizens take justice into their own hands, feuds form, and our system devolves into tribalism. For this reason, the government should carry out justice. Our justice system was established to protect people and their rights to life and property.
It is human nature that when the police don’t protect people, their families, and businesses, people will eventually take justice into their own hands. The Democrats know that if conservatives hit the breaking point, they will hit the streets with their guns and eliminate the threat. Democrat mobs would then lose all effectiveness. They need to disarm the public so they can have mob rule. Both sides know this. When they call for gun control, they call for conservatives to acquiesce and accept being second-class citizens. People don’t want to disarm you unless they intend to do things to you that would cause you to reach for your gun.
One thing liberals have in common is a disconnect with reality. They don’t understand people who live differently than they do. They don’t understand the mindset of patriotic Americans who feel a debt of gratitude to those who died to create the first system of government of, by, and for the people, whereby the rights of individuals are super-ordinate to the powers they give to the government. Patriotic Americans know that at any given moment, they may be called upon to pay that debt the same way those who created this great nation did and are ready to do so.
Many couldn’t live with the guilt of being a coward who gave away the freedoms they were endowed with. This mentality liberals don’t seem to understand. If they did, they would never push for gun control, for they are out-manned and out-gunned by over a hundred million Americans who will never turn over their guns. The largest armed force in the world isn’t the Chinese army but the American populace.
The United States of America is the only nation in the world with the heritage of creating a country with a government of, by, and for the people; this is commonly referred to as “American exceptionalism.” We’re proud of that. What worked in other countries’ Marxist and communist revolutions won’t work here.
We aren’t Brits, we are not Australians, nor are we Canadians. We are Americans.