By: Anthony Morelli
This could change the way people think about the gun control lobby.
If people knew this, the gun control lobby would have far less power.
A very ugly secret about a huge gun control group just became public.
Most people who don’t follow politics closely assume that gun control advocacy groups are trying to achieve a society that has less violence.
This is an understandable assumption, as these groups certainly market themselves that way, and most people aren’t digging into the fine details about these organizations.
But even assuming that their intention really is to reduce violence, their approach is quite odd and counterproductive.
Gun control groups like Giffords or Everytown for Gun Safety have scorecards where they rate states based on their gun laws.
But these ratings apparently do not take into account how safe the state actually is, which leads to states with high rates of violence being given elite scores by these groups.
It is quite odd that groups that are allegedly pushing for safety are actually rewarding states that have failed in their duty to provide for the safety of their people.
According to Ammoland, “A new study listing Washington as the eighth most dangerous state in the country refutes the hype from national gun control groups, which give the state high marks for gun laws, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed.
“Yet Washington gets an ‘A-’ on the Giffords gun control scorecard, while the Everytown for Gun Safety gun prohibition lobby group brags that Washington is ‘#9 in the country for gun law strength.’”
Of course, “gun law strength” is not synonymous with safety, and these groups are technically not rating the states on their safety.
But that goes to the very point Second Amendment advocates will make, which is that gun laws don’t actually make a state safer, and gun freedoms don’t make it more dangerous.
The article continues, “A look back at FBI Uniform Crime Reports and data from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs is damning, Gottlieb noted. In 2014, Washington posted 172 homicides, and by 2022—the most recent year for which data is available from state or federal law enforcement sources—there were 394 slayings. Seattle, where the region’s most active and wealthy gun prohibition lobbying group is headquartered, set a new homicide record last year.”
It’s clear that Washington has a lot of work to do in terms of cleaning up their state and making it safer for residents, and gun control simply hasn’t accomplished that.
Regardless of what the solution is, groups like Everytown and Giffords should be more cautious about hyping up a state that is dealing with serious safety issues.
They are unintentionally refuting their own claims about guns and scoring points for the other team.
Maybe politicians in blue states will look at this and realize that their efforts to combat crime simply by attacking guns are not effective, and they need to look into other strategies.