Every school shooting is an atrocity. As a man with a young son, I fear that someone will burst into his school and take his innocent, precious life for some misguided reason born by a mental illness that went unaddressed.
However, I've done my research over the years as a journalist and commentator, and I know for a fact that the solution isn't to get rid of all the guns. As I've written many a time in the past, and even made videos about, making America a gun-free country is an impossibility.
This isn't new information, either. I made this video talking about this very thing nine years ago after the San Bernardino shooting.
We've had multiple mass shootings since then, some of which were at schools, where children were viciously killed as authorities could or would do nothing. A nightmare scenario that could have been avoided with a few simple fixes, namely more guns on the campus and preventative measures that impede the progress of the gunman.
The latest, of course, is the shooting that happened Monday at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, at the hands of 15-year-old girl who "discussed a desire to kill all males."
(READ: Madison Shooting Suspect Identified As 15-Year-Old Student)
Yet, you can present all the data in the world that shows gun control doesn't work, and it still won't move the opinions of gun control advocates. To them, it's simple logic to just get rid of all the guns in America, complications, nuances, and laws be damned.
Even Democrats, who do know better, push for this attitude to propagate throughout the United States. During the 2024 election, the Biden Admin plastered their social media feeds with talk about banning firearms. After the shooting in Madison, he didn't let the crisis go to waste, using the deaths of innocents to advocate for more gun control. As Bonchie highlighted in his article about it, Biden advocated for restrictions that didn't even apply to the shooting:
What's so gross about this is that it expects the reader to make several false assumptions that push the narrative Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party prefer. Notice the mention of needing a ban on "assault weapons and high-capacity magazines." The problem? The shooter in this case used neither. Rather, she used a pistol, which is the one type of firearm Democrats constantly claim they don't want to ban. So why mention "assault weapons?" Because Biden is willing to stand on the bodies of dead children to promote policies that would have had no impact on this shooting. It's disgusting.
Sure enough, the call for gun control came anew from the uninformed, and we're thrust back into the same tug o' war over the narrative about guns.
However, if you stop for a second and look over recent events, you'll find that even gun control advocates don't seem to be all that concerned about gun control either. They only seem to care when it's politically expedient to.
Let's take a trip through time, all the way back to the ancient days of... last week.
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was celebrated. The alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, became an overnight star, praised for his good looks to the point where Jimmy Kimmel dedicated an entire segment to pointing out how hot his staff thinks Mangione is. So happy were people with this particular shooting, that wanted posters began going up for other CEOs around New York.
(READ: The Death Cult Rears Its Ugly Head Atop the Murder of Brian Thompson)
Nary a word was heard about gun control at that time. If any Democrats or anti-gun organizations did speak out about it, it was lost in the cacophony of praise. I imagine many Democrats didn't speak out about it at all for fear that their poll numbers would take a dip for daring to look like they weren't "of the people."
I can hear many people gearing up their arguments now. "Brandon, there's a difference between a CEO who led an evil company that is responsible for the deaths of many, and innocent people in a school."
You are correct, but murder is still murder, and logically, the same society whose supposed lack of gun laws allowed for the murder of innocents in a school is the same that allowed for the murder of the CEO.
The bottom line here is that the gun control crowd seems okay with murder if it's murder the mob approves of.
And that, my friends, is something that torpedoes any reason to take the gun control crowd seriously at all. They detest gun violence unless said violence is done on targets that they don't mind seeing gone, or at the very least, are targets politically expedient to ignore. Insurance CEOs, black on black shootings, and border violence to name a few.
Why should we take these people seriously when it comes to their "concerns" about gun violence? They're clearly not that concerned. In truth, many of them treat a wish for gun control like a fad they pick up and drop based on who the victims are.
I mean, these are the same people who threw tantrums when the guy who tried to shoot Trump missed.
