Democrats like to use legislative force to regulate firearms in the name of public safety, but like their climate agenda, there is no evidence that their solutions work as advertised and ample proof they do not.
When confronted with the notion that waiting periods or magazine bans, ammo taxes, red flag laws, or any other suggested Left-Win remedy will save lives, you need only utter the word “Chicago.” Yes, Baltimore, St. Louis, LA, and DC add weight to sink the argument, but Chicago is the poster child for failed policy when it comes to Dems, firearms, and public safety. Chicago is top-heavy with Dems and their dopey ideas, and it is a city whose violent crime and murder are legion.
It’s bad year-round, but Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago marks the beginning of the Summer of Joy, and it exceeded expectations. While the ten-year average for Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago is nine dead and forty-one wounded, this year, twelve were killed and forty-nine were wounded.
Final Demonized Tally: 12 killed, 49 wounded
2022 Memorial Day tally: 12 killed, 43 wounded
2021 Memorial Day tally: 4 killed, 38 wounded
2020 Memorial Day tally: 10 killed, 43 wounded
2019 Memorial Day tally: 8 killed, 35 wounded
2018 Memorial Day tally: 8 killed, 31 wounded
2017 Memorial Day tally: 7 killed, 44 wounded
2016 Memorial Day tally: 10 killed, 67 wounded
2015 Memorial Day tally: 12 killed, 45 wounded
2014 Memorial Day tally: 8 killed, 22 wounded
Average total: 9 killed, 41 wounded
You don’t typically see this sort of thing from law-abiding gun owners, and since the Demcorats disarmed most of them in Chicago, the only consistency in any of this is systemic Democrat rule. The non-stop perennial investiture of Left-Wing “leaders” into positions of authority who then make past mistakes worse.
Disarming law-abiding citizens consistently results in more injury, property crime, carjackings, robbery, assault, and murder. Chicago is proof enough, but as noted above, Baltimore (LA, DC, Atlanta, etc.) does its darndest to compete alongside every other liberal paradise from sea to the rising sea.
Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, gun-crazy constitutional carry, New Hampshire continues to enjoy its perennial designation as one of the safest states in the nation.
Does anyone get tired of hearing this? The Democrats might. Despite being a Constitutional Carry state, with a series of recent laws favoring the right to self-defense and where you can legally carry, New Hampshire is again being recognized as the safest state in the US.
And still, they go on about their common sense gun laws™, and people still believe them. Those people need to take a closer look a crime and violence in Chicago and then stop being a victim of crime, violence, and the Democrat party.
No, I’m not holding my breath.
