Democrats have attempted to rebrand their policies to be about “gun safety” rather than what they are truly about – gun control

Herminio Mendoza, President of the Hispanic Republicans of North Jersey

Joshua Sotomayor Einstein

Attempting to take advantage of the mental health crisis and the rise in crime they created, the Democrat gun control lobby has once again decided to warp the facts around legal firearm ownership. Democrats have attempted to rebrand their policies to be about “safety” rather than what they are truly about – control. The policies Democrats have pursued, such as bail reform for violent criminals and defunding the police, have increased violence and crime particularly in working class neighborhoods.

Now these same Democrats have renewed their crusade to disarm law abiding working class Americans seeking to defend themselves from the same violent criminals the Democrats have released into their neighborhoods. They throw out “ideas” like 8 round magazine limits as if the most recent mass shooter didn’t fire more than 8 rounds from multiple magazines. They label every long barrel firearm an assault weapon as if there is any mechanical difference between a modern firearm with a pistol grip and one without. They pretend rounds often not allowed for hunting deer, such as popular home defense rounds like the 9mm (common in handguns) and .223 (the most common Armalite style rifle caliber), are especially destructive bullets that if banned would lead to safety. Yet they ignore the fact that tens of millions, including millions in Democrat states (and hundreds of thousands in NJ), concealed carry firearms because under Democrats crime has gone up and neighborhoods have been made more dangerous.

The Democrat gun control movement is not interested in solutions, they are about control and view working class people as dangerous in and of themselves. The proof is in the pudding – all their policies make owning firearms for self-defense more unaffordable for working class people. For example, under NJ’s “AR ban” (the Armalite style rifle, which Democrats call weapons of war), “AR’s” are not in fact banned but must be cosmetically altered to not have an adjustable stock and a removable muzzle break to be legally sold in the state. These cosmetic changes do nothing to protect NJ residents from violent criminals, but this and other regulations do make the price of firearms more expensive, putting securing home protection through legal means out of the hands of more and more of working class New Jerseyans.

The solution to school shootings and illegal violence in general is (not exclusively, but) simply more firearms. More firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens, and armed guards at schools (as well as bullet proof glass on doors) – making soft targets hard. Every large NYC financial institution and every city hall in NJ is protected by firearms. In Hoboken’s Steven Institute of Technology (and many other colleges) students are protected with armed campus police, and it is how many neighborhood bank branches are protected (though often with plainclothes security officers concealed carrying). It is also how our society protects the cash in armored cars. 

Working class people and children in school deserve the same protection as the ruling class, money, politicians, and Wall Street financial institutions – protection provided by people with firearms. If Democrats were serious about saving lives, they would stop making firearms more unaffordable for working class law abiding citizens, focus on making schools less of a soft target, and stop releasing violent criminals onto the streets.