Simply in time to spoil the season, Everytown for Gun Management is again with the 2025 version of “Debunking Gun Myths on the Dinner Desk,” a listing of 17 speaking factors their most zealous — and most gullible — devotees can use to disrupt an amiable household dinner dialog.
Luckily, likelihood is good you’ll be able to shut them down shortly. These individuals are seldom conscious of something past the propaganda, which is precisely what the gun-grabbers need.
In case you have a look at the references, you will note almost all of them are based mostly on “Everytown Analysis” or closely biased articles and research designed with pre-determined outcomes.
Addressing all of Everytown’s speaking factors would make this text far too lengthy, however it’s properly value just a few.
Everytown ‘Delusion’: Criminals will all the time discover a approach to get their palms on a gun.
Everytown ‘Reality’: Legal guidelines like background checks cease gun sale to criminals each day. Since 1994, these legal guidelines have blocked greater than 5 million gun gross sales to individuals who couldn’t legally personal weapons.
Precise Reality: The “debunking” stumbles from the beginning: Everytown’s ‘reality’ affirms its ‘fantasy’. Background test legal guidelines apply solely to transfers made via licensed sellers. In reality, solely licensed sellers can acceess the NICS system.
In line with the U.S. Division of Justice, solely about 10% of crime weapons are obtained from gun outlets, pawn outlets and gun reveals. Even that determine must be adjusted to account for unlawful straw gross sales.
Failing a NICS test doesn’t imply a nasty man can’t get a gun, even in states requiring background checks for all firearm transfers. To be enforceable, common background test legal guidelines require common gun registration which has been forbidden by federal regulation since 1986.
Then there’s this: In line with the U.S. Sentencing Fee’s 2021 handbook, 88.8% of individuals convicted for federal gun offenses have been already prohibited from even non permanent gun possession.
Everytown ‘Delusion’: Weapons don’t kill individuals, individuals kill individuals.
Everytown ‘Reality’: Individuals with weapons kill individuals, and extra effectively than individuals with out weapons. The U.S. gun loss of life price is 13 occasions that of different high-income nations.
Precise Reality: As soon as once more, Everytown’s ‘reality’ affirms the ‘fantasy’. Individuals with weapons kill individuals. Individuals with knives kill individuals. Individuals with hammers, baseball bats, poison, and a wide range of different devices, together with their naked palms and toes, kill individuals. Individuals with truckloads of fertilizer and racing gasoline kill individuals – and with much more effectivity than weapons.
[Note: Remember that laughing so hard you fall out of your chair might be considered rude at the family dinner table. Always ask to be excused.]
What’s the frequent consider all of those? Individuals. Duh.
Because of a virtually maniacal fixation, Everytown sees solely the gun. This can be a basic flaw of their perception system and their agenda.
Evaluating the US to a cherry-picked batch of different nations reveals simply how little Everytown understands — and even cares. If we have a look at the identical United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime knowledge sourced by Everytown however have a look at all 102 cpuntries included, the U.S. is available in at #24 with a murder price barely beneath common
America just isn’t like these handpicked nations. In reality, America isn’t like some other nation on Earth. Merely beginning with our relationship to our authorities and the one of many major causes for our proper to maintain and bear arms will show the stark variations.
This final one isn’t more likely to be a subject of dialog however it’s sufficient to make you need toss the turnips at any offending jackal that brings it up.
Everytown ‘Delusion’: Like cigarette advertisements, it’s unlawful to market weapons to kids.
Everytown ‘Reality’: Gun makers immediately goal kids with their advertisements and social media – at a time when weapons are the main reason behind deaths for youngsters and youths.
Precise Reality: This gem depends on The Smoking Gun, one other Bloomberg propaganda organ (wasn’t The Hint sufficient?), as its supply. Particularly, an outright smear piece entitled “Gun Firms Market Recklessly” that stretches credibility to means past the breaking level.
In the true world, making a mountain out of a molehill typically requires a molehill. The Smoking Gun begins with a mound of a considerably completely different, and much more odiferous, composition and piles it on, trying to match Pikes Peak.
In case you see an Everytown speaking level desperately needing a gathering with actuality, put it within the feedback and I’ll attempt to get again to you.
Joyful holidays!
About Invoice Cawthon
Invoice Cawthon first grew to become a gun proprietor 55 years in the past. He has been an energetic advocate for People’ civil liberties for greater than a decade. He’s the knowledge director for the Second Modification Society of Texas.
