FireArm Friday - If 2024 Proved Anything, It Was Gun Control Still Fails
Gun control laws continued to fail their mission in 2024
If the past 12 months have taught us anything as a nation, it would have to be that gun control has actually failed in its purported mission of preventing criminals from getting guns, and that proponents of restrictive gun laws are both delusional and living in denial when they claim otherwise.
Remember, the gun prohibition lobby is typically silent when a legally armed private citizen intervenes in a crime to stop the criminal.
While the number of homicides decreased in 2023 by more than 11 percent, according to the most recently available data estimates from the FBI, the use of firearms in those killings remains high.
The Christmas Eve triple shooting in Oxford, Mich.—scene of the tragic high school shooting in November 2021 which resulted in several new gun restrictions—confirms what gun rights advocates such as…