We reported last year how the misnamed anti-gun group Everytown For Gun Safety encouraged its members to argue about guns at their family Thanksgiving dinner.
Well, apparently those arguments didn’t convert enough 2A supporters to Everytown members, as the group, which has never seen a gun-ban proposal it didn’t support, is again encouraging members to be combative on the day set aside to give thanks.
I’m sure many of your families are like mine, with far more gun supporters than gun-control advocates. In fact, In fact, with three generations of concealed carry practitioners gathered around the family table for Thanksgiving dinner, our celebration of thanks is likely the most dangerous place a deranged individual could choose to attack. Sure, we talk about guns at Thanksgiving dinner. But its more talking about what rifle we are using for deer season and what new pistols we might have purchased since the last time we were all together.
That’s not what Everytown is encouraging gun-ban advocates to talk about. They want their members to try to “debunk” their family members’ “truths,” all the while trying to seem thankful.
“There are a lot of widespread myths and conflicting information about guns, gun violence, and gun safety laws in America,” the group said in a story on its website. “To set the record straight, we’ve developed a series of graphics to help you ‘fork over the facts’ and dispel some of the most prominent myths about gun violence.”
Of course, when they say, “gun violence,” they really mean criminal violence. But for them, it’s always about blaming the gun, not the criminal using it for nefarious means.
Here’s a sampling of their “myths” and so-called “facts,” along with the truth of the matter.
Myth: Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on guns.
Everytown “Fact”: Laws like background checks stop gun sales to criminals every day.
The Truth: Most criminals don’t get their guns from licensed retailers anyway. The “myth” is actually the truth.
Myth: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Everytown “Fact”: People with guns kill people, and more efficiently than people without guns.
The Truth: Criminals with guns kill people. And the fact remains, guns don’t kill people without someone pulling the trigger.
Myth: The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Everytown “Fact”: If more guns made us safer, America would be the safest country on earth.
The Truth: You can hate the “good guy with a gun” saying all you want, but who does Americans call when they are under attack? You got it: A good guy with a gun.
I could only hope that someone at our Thanksgiving dinner takes up Everytown’s banner and brings some of these “myths” up for discussion. It would, no doubt, be livelier than our conversations about surgeries, school and work.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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