By: Anthony Morelli
Democrats are extremely serious about making gun control happen.
They are trying to pass it as soon as possible.
And one powerful senator just delivered a warning about gun control.
Raphael Warnock is the U.S. senator from the state of Georgia, after winning his seat in a bizarre January 2021 special election where Trump was attacking the Georgia Republican Party.
Warnock happened to be the Democrat candidate at the time that this Republican infighting was taking place, and he lucked out and won the seat.
Now, his home state of Georgia is in the news as a shooting took place at one of the 472 local public high schools in the state.
Warnock is a staunch supporter of gun control, and he wants to make sure that legislative action is taken to restrict guns in the wake of this shooting.
That’s why he is now delivering a warning about what he thinks will happen if gun control does not pass.
And his announcement can simultaneously be taken as a warning of Democrats’ intention to pass gun control as soon as possible, at the state level or federally.
According to The Guardian, “Americans ‘are all sitting ducks’ unless Congress passes more substantial gun control, US senator Raphael Warnock said on Sunday, four days after two students and two teachers at a high school in his home state of Georgia were shot to death, allegedly by a teenager wielding a military-style rifle.”
His statement is total nonsense, as the statistics make very clear.
Altogether, there are 26,727 public high schools in America. The fact that one of them had a shooting is horrific, and highlights the need for better school security.
But it doesn’t change the fact that 26,726 out of those 26,727 high schools did not have a shooting, which means the vast majority of American high school students are safe.
The article continues, “Warnock’s comments Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press came in direct response to statements from Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, who had previously said the killings at Appalachee high school in Winder, Georgia, demonstrated how it was a ‘fact of life’ that US schools present ‘soft targets’ to a ‘psycho [wanting] to make headlines.’”
Vance is unfortunately correct, and the reason he is correct is that U.S. political discourse has centered so heavily on gun control that no one even talks about measures that can be taken to secure school buildings.
The most immediate and effective way to stop school shootings from taking place is by universally revamping school security so that bad actors cannot get into the building.
The fact that so many schools do not even have a resource officer, let alone any effective system of securing the building, is a disgrace.
That is what people should be talking about, and that would have the most immediate impact on reducing the number of these shootings.
Instead, the conversation is about changing the Constitution and taking people’s guns away, which will have little to no impact on the problem whatsoever.