The Covenant School shooting that left six dead has created a myriad of responses from the left, most of which involve defending the transgender shooter and her community, but in the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste you know a march was going to happen.
It’s disgusting enough for the defenses of the shooter to happen, but the so-called “student-led” march is utilizing the deaths of six people, three of which who are children, as a prop for which to pretend like there’s a large movement in the United States that’s against guns.
According to Chalkbeat, over 1,000 students walked out of their schools on Monday to march toward the Tennessee State Capitol to demand tougher gun laws and to “ban assault weapons”:
The walkout began at 10:13 a.m., marking one week since Nashville police received the first call about an active shooter at The Covenant School, who killed three children and three adult staff members on March 27.
“We all want to live through high school,” said 17-year-old Amy Goetzinger, one of the earliest students to arrive at Monday’s rally, “and that’s why we’re here today.”
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“Guns are the No. 1 killer of children, of teenagers, and of college-age students, both in the United States of America and right here in Tennessee. That’s not normal,” Jayce Pollard, a 20-year-old Vanderbilt student, told the crowd.
While data says this claim that guns are the number one killer of adolescents is true, what they don’t get into is the circumstances around these gun deaths. The CDC counts people as “children” when they’re 19 and younger. Funny enough, the IRS doesn’t see it that way, but I digress.
The truth is that a lot of these violent gun crimes being committed are committed by black people against black people — primarily black men — in blue cities where drug and gang crime are rampant. As CDC data showed, young black men and teens were the victims of gun crime at a rate of 20 times more than white people of the same age. This isn’t openly discussed often when these marches happen and the “black on black gun crime” conversation is often dismissed as a myth. Rest assured, it’s not a myth at all and the fact that leftist activists don’t want to discuss it says a lot about their priorities.
The activists who run these marches don’t discuss these facts so they must be searched for beneath the breathless claims by mainstream media outlets about the youth suffering at the hands of gun violence. They want you to think that you’re rolling the dice whenever you let your child go to school and that the only way to make them safe is to strip yourself of your rights.
But even without the half-buried stats about gun crime in America, we can logic out that the general populace doesn’t have a gun problem.
The overall claim is that guns are threatening everyone in America at all times and, as such, everyone must give up their guns. When you consider that there are 393 million firearms in the hands of civilians (that’s a conservative estimate) it’s pretty clear that the general population does not have an issue with their firearms. At best, the general population is under threat by suicide, but that’s more a conversation about mental health and the causes behind its degradation of it; another conversation the left would rather not have.
Given the sheer volume of guns owned by regular civilians, there’d be dead bodies laying in the street all over America, all the time. The gutters would be stained with blood and gunshots would be a common sound in little-town America, not just in the major blue cities like Chicago.
Moreover, these marches would be littered with dead bodies as those bitter clingers who supposedly care more about their guns than the lives of children would fire into the crowds to intimidate them into silence.
But that’s not happening. What is happening is leftist activists are actively lying about the gun situation in America to push the country toward gun control measures that would effectively disarm the good people, leaving them vulnerable to the criminals who don’t obey these guns laws and the people in Washington who would love nothing more than for you to be easily cowed by guns they never plan on giving up.
If they truly cared about gun violence, they’d begin looking into the gang crime issue in various cities, the drug trade that helps fuel it, and the issues people face today that send them spiraling into depressions that result in gun-related suicides.
Good luck getting them to do that, though.
