Too Many Guns?

 

MILLIONS OF GUNS, AND NOT A HITLER OR STALIN IN SIGHT

In the wake of the weekend shootings, foreigners who love to mock America are once again telling us that there are too many guns in the United States.

For the Democrats, any is too many. It’s generally believed there are 393 million firearms of all sorts in the Land of the Free. As the number of guns in private hands climbed since the early 1990s, the number of crimes of all sorts dropped.

Only a miniscule number of guns are used in crimes. In 2017, there were approximately 12,000 murders committed with guns. Perhaps five times that number of crimes were thwarted by armed citizens.

Yes, there are a lot of guns in America. What we don’t have are Hitlers, Stalins, Pol Pots, Castros, Maos – concentration camps, death camps, gulags, genocide, Gestapos, KGBs and the rest of the apparatus of state terror.

Americans don’t build death camps; we liberate them. Americans don’t engineer genocide; we stop it.

Without guns in private hands, the American Revolution never would have happened. Like the Democratic Party, the Red Coats who marched on Lexington and Concord in 1775 thought Americans had too many guns.

Who was it who said: Fear those who fear guns in the hands of free men?

H/T to James in Albany