Anti-Gun Control Arguments 2024: Facts Gun Control Lobby Suppress

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The debate over gun control is heavily influenced by various groups, including the anti-gun lobby and anti-Second Amendment (2A) politicians. These groups often dominate headlines and social media, advocating for more restrictive gun laws. Organizations like Moms Demand Action, Everytown, and Newtown have successfully garnered public support by using data, statistics, and emotional appeals to sway opinions.

However, the perspective supporting the Second Amendment, which views it as a vital measure for self-defense, is often underrepresented. This viewpoint is frequently criticized as prioritizing firearms over children’s safety or merely offering “thoughts and prayers.” Despite these criticisms, proponents of the 2A argue that compromising on these rights poses greater dangers.

Key Points:

  • Implementing mandatory gun buybacks or registrations in the U.S. would cost billions of taxpayer dollars, and many firearms would still remain in civilian hands.
  • The firearm industry contributes billions annually to the U.S. economy, providing jobs and tax revenue.
  • Despite existing gun control laws, homicide rates in countries like the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K. continue to fluctuate, suggesting that criminality is not directly impacted by these laws.
  • The Second Amendment and Supreme Court rulings support an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the U.S.
  • Gun control has historically been used to oppress minorities in the U.S. and worldwide.
  • There is no positive correlation between gun lobby efforts, anti-gun lobby actions, and gun deaths.

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The Economic Impact of Gun Control

Groups like Everytown estimate that gun violence costs $557 billion per year. (Source 4) However, this figure includes extreme estimates of lost wages, court costs, incarceration, medical bills, etc., and the source of this data is often unclear.

The Cost of Gun Control

Canada imposed gun registrations costing over $2.7 billion (adjusted to $3.32 billion today), which failed and records were destroyed. (Source 1)

Australia’s gun buyback program in the 1990s cost $230 million; the country now has more guns than before. (Source 2)

The UK’s gun buyback program cost $2 million to collect only 162,000 firearms, covering a small fraction of the total guns. (Source 2) More than $3.2 million today, and the country has only recovered 26% of its firearms.

In the U.S., implementing similar measures would be significantly more expensive and complex due to the high number of firearms. For instance, buying back just 20% of the guns could cost upwards of $42 billion.

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I try to understand where the anti-2A sentiment is coming from. I understand the need to protect children and innocent victims of gun violence. I truly believe pro-2A folks like us also want to protect children and innocent victims. But I’ve seen how the failures of gun control can leave a populace living in fear and victimized. Growing up as a kid in Puerto Rico in the 70’s, it was very difficult for law-abiding residents to obtain a firearm. But that didn’t stop criminals from getting them and using them to carjack, rob, shoot, maim and kill innocent victims. But the biggest example can be seen just south of us in Mexico, where my wife was born. We haven’t gone to visit her family in years out of fear of the violence down there. While it’s not impossible for a law-abiding citizen of Mexico to obtain a gun, it’s extremely difficult to do so. Meanwhile, cartel thugs have no problem obtaining and using AK’s, both semi and automatic, to rob, extort, maim, torture, kidnap and kill innocent, defenseless victims. My wife was very anti-gun until I explained all that to her, and while she still has no desire to own one or go target shooting, she’s much more understanding of the 2A’s purpose allowing one to exercise the right to self defense. It’s something I try to explain to a few of the anti-2A folks I’ve come across, but I don’t think it hits home.

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I think the anti-gun sentiment comes from naive idealism. Law-abiding people who have never seen the darker side of society think that bans actually work. They haven’t thought through what would actually happen in the real world, and they forget that “most people” is not “all people.” Remember all the COVID mandates, and the numbers of people who didn’t comply?

But I don’t say it that way to them. I say, I want peace, too. Setting aside that there are more ways to kill besides guns, suppose we had a utopia where guns were banned, and everybody got rid of them. That’s not a stable state of affairs. Out of millions of people, it only takes one bad actor to smuggle a gun in or build one, and then he will wreak havoc. No one would be able to stop him, or it would take longer and we would lose many innocents.

Now imagine if most people had guns. Most people are good. As soon as a bad actor tries anything, he has half a dozen good guys pointing guns at him. There’s no waiting, and the problem gets solved quickly by itself. Compared to the gun-free zone, more lives are saved. That’s why I carry.

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