By Chris McNutt
They’ll never stop coming for our rights.
Gun control extremists, anti-gun politicians, and billionaire-backed operatives like Michael Bloomberg and George Soros are working overtime to disarm law-abiding Americans.
They say we need “common-sense” gun laws. But let’s be honest: there’s nothing “common” or “sensible” about policies that leave good people defenseless.
It’s time to cut through the spin and expose the truth: Gun control doesn’t work. Never has. Never will.
Criminals Don’t Obey Gun Laws — That’s Why They’re Criminals
The anti-gun crowd likes to pretend that if they just pass one more law, criminals will suddenly start obeying signs and statutes. But the truth is simple: the only people impacted by gun control laws are the ones already following the law.
Take “gun-free zones” for example. These are the places where law-abiding citizens are disarmed — and mass shooters walk in knowing they’ll face no resistance.
A 2018 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found that 94% of mass public shootings from 1950 through May 2019 occurred in gun-free zones【1】.
Think about that. Mass murderers target places where they know their victims won’t be able to shoot back.
They don’t care about your “No Guns Allowed” sign. In fact, they’re banking on it.
Just ask the families in Aurora, Colorado — where the theater shooter bypassed multiple closer venues that allowed lawful carry and deliberately selected the only one that banned firearm【2】.
Gun control creates victim zones — and the blood is on the hands of those who wrote those policies.
Good Guys with Guns Save Lives Every Day
The media won’t talk about it, but every day, law-abiding gun owners use their firearms to stop crimes, defend their families, and save lives.
According to the CDC’s findings — derived from a 2013 report commissioned under the Obama administration — Americans use firearms for self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times per year【3】.
That’s millions of crimes prevented — often without a single shot fired. The bad guy sees a gun and runs. End of story.
And in places where citizens are actually allowed to carry, we’ve seen mass shooters stopped cold.
In 2022, a lawfully armed civilian in Greenwood, Indiana, stopped a would-be mass killer in a mall food court within 15 seconds, saving countless lives — despite it being a posted gun-free zone【4】.
These brave Americans don’t get medals. They don’t get headlines. But they prove one thing: when seconds count, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Background Checks: The Gun Control Lie That Won’t Die
Every time there’s a tragedy, the Left runs to the microphone demanding “universal background checks.” But here’s the dirty little secret: criminals don’t go through background checks to get their guns.
A 2016 Bureau of Justice Statistics survey found that only 10.1% of criminals who used a firearm during a crime got it from a retail source. The rest acquired them illegally — through black markets, straw purchases, theft, or friends and family【5】.
Meanwhile, background checks trap law-abiding citizens in red tape, bureaucracy, and false denials.
According to a 2022 report by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, over 99% of firearm purchase denials through NICS are “false positives” — meaning innocent people are wrongfully flagged【6】.
And “universal background checks”? That’s just code for backdoor registration.
The only way to enforce background checks on private transfers is to track every single firearm and owner — and we all know where that leads.
In Nazi Germany, Venezuela, and even Australia, national gun registries were the first step to confiscation【7】.
And now, even in the U.S., the ATF has accumulated nearly 1 billion firearm transaction records, with over 865 million digitized — despite federal law prohibiting a centralized registry【8】.
Universal background checks aren’t about stopping criminals. They’re about building a database of gun owners for future confiscation. Period.
Gun-Controlled Cities = Crime Capitals
If gun control worked, cities like Chicago and New York — with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation — would be the safest.
Instead, they’ve become crime capitals.
In 2020, Chicago saw a 50% increase in homicides, recording its highest number of gun-related murders ever【9】.
That same year, New York City’s homicides rose by 41%, and shootings increased by a staggering 95%【10】.
These cities have bans, registration laws, “safe storage” mandates, and red flag laws — and none of it stopped the carnage. Because none of it ever does.
More Guns, Less Crime
Here’s what they don’t want you to know: Between 1991 and 2019, as private gun ownership more than doubled, violent crime in the U.S. fell by over 50%【11】【12】.
Today, a record number of Americans carry firearms for protection — and states with shall-issue or constitutional carry laws have seen decreases in violent crime, including rape and robbery【13】.
Criminals think twice when they don’t know who might be armed.
In a nationwide survey of over 2,000 convicted felons, criminals admitted they feared armed citizens more than they feared police【14】.
The Bottom Line: Gun Control Doesn’t Work — and Never Will
Gun control isn’t about safety. It’s about control.
It disarms the innocent. It empowers the violent. And it opens the door to tyranny.
At Texas Gun Rights and the Texas Gun Rights Foundation, we fight back every day — in the legislature, in the courts, and in the court of public opinion. Because our rights aren’t up for negotiation.
The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It’s a firewall against tyranny, and we will never compromise it away.
Sources
- Lott, John R. “94% of Mass Public Shootings Occurred in Gun-Free Zones.” Crime Prevention Research Center, 2018. Link
- Dave Kopel, “The theater massacre: Why it matters where he picked,” The Washington Times, July 2012.
- Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. “Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence.” CDC/NIH Report, 2013.
- Associated Press, “Man Who Killed Indiana Mall Gunman Praised as ‘Hero’,” July 18, 2022.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016.” Link
- DOJ Inspector General, “Audit of the FBI’s Implementation of the NICS Denial Notification Act of 2021,” September 2022.
- Stephen P. Halbrook, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, 2018; and Halbrook, Gun Control in the Third Reich, 2013.
- ATF 2021 FOIA Records: “865 Million Gun Records Digitized” — reported by Gun Owners of America and The Washington Free Beacon, 2022.
- ABC7 Chicago, “2020 Cook County Deaths Break Records,” January 2, 2021.
- NY Mag, “Homicides Surged in NYC in 2020,” December 29, 2020.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, “Firearms Commerce in the United States, Annual Update 2019.”
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), 1991–2019 crime statistics.
- Lott, John R., More Guns, Less Crime, 3rd Edition, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Wright, James D. and Peter H. Rossi, Armed and Considered Dangerous, Aldine de Gruyter, 1986.