By Dan Zimmerman The Truth About Guns
Amy Swearer is a Senior Legal Fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation and also runs the group’s Defensive Gun Use Database. Check out what she had to say about gun violence in America below:
We have a very real national crisis of disillusioned young men who are increasingly alienated from society, overly connected to the internet, and full of anger. They are too easily pulled into extremism and too often turn to violence as an outlet.
We have a local, state, and national mental health infrastructure that is, to put it nicely, failing and falling apart. While many public shooters do not necessarily have a diagnosable mental illness, they’re rarely the epitome of mental stability. But it turns out that addressing this complicated, decades-long problem and ensuring people get help before they’re in crisis is difficult. It’s far easier, and more profitable, to lobby against a specific type of scary-looking gun
We have too many states that make it difficult and expensive for peaceful citizens to exercise their unalienable right to self-defense, both in public and in their own homes. At the same time, government officials undermine the same police departments they ask us to wait on for assistance when confronted with imminent violent threats.
In Jacksonville, lives were saved by an armed campus security officer who approached and deterred the gunman before he could fire a single shot on university grounds. Meanwhile, Gun Control, Inc., rakes in money for mocking the idea of a “good guy with a gun” while failing to acknowledge the obvious: the faster a violent threat is confronted by armed resistance, the faster that threat ends and the fewer people die.
We deserve better than the current list of bumper-sticker solutions to the most surface-level and fringe aspects of violence.
Until we force ourselves to change the way we collectively approach mass public shootings, we will keep spinning in circles while people die.
This piece was edited for clarity. The original version of this article can be found in its entirety on The Truth About Guns.
My question is which kill’s the
most children, guns or abortion.
Just wondering, have never seen
the numbers on this.
622,000 abortions this year to date all of 2022 48,000 gun deaths — more than half suicides so less than 24,000 all ages 4600 less than 19 years of age. Less than 1,000 people killed by police. If these twelve deaths resulted in charges being brought against the police.
Think this should set the record straight
Presume that that answers
I’ve said it before and will continue to say it – there is a human heart problem – violence is the symptom of that condition. The tool – or even body parts (hands/feet) is irrelevant. Granted a weapon of any sort is more ‘efficient’ but without the evil inherent in the heart, the issue goes away. Many (most?) of us somehow manage to control that internal ‘beast’ but those who don’t WILL find a way to commit evil.