Progressive Mayors Try Their Hardest To Shame Gunmakers
Political leaders are growing increasingly comfortable disregarding America’s Second Amendment, and have started publicly shaming gun makers. These progressive mayors try to shame gunmakers as gun violence continues to spread across the country.
“Mayors are on the frontlines of our nation’s gun violence epidemic and that’s why we won’t shy away from naming those who make the guns that are killing our communities,” Democratic Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas told Axios. Contrary to popular belief, guns don’t choose to kill people. They are inanimate objects that only act at the request of human intervention.
If Lucas and other political leaders want to stop guns from killing people, all they have to do is ensure that the people using the guns are brought to justice for their crimes. Instead, advocates want to prosecute the creators of guns, like Glock, Smith & Wesson, Taurus, and Ruger, Axios noted.
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Statistically speaking, fewer crimes occur in neighborhoods with high legal gun ownership, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. (LEARN MORE: Trigger Laws)
What’s more is that 54% of gun crimes are suicide, according to Pew Research. Suicide have almost always accounted for a majority of gun-related deaths in the U.S. This suggests we have both a mental health and a criminal crisis, exacerbated by law makers who focus on guns instead of the root causes of these issues.
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