Category: Where’d they get the gun?

Where’d they get the guns?

Six teens have been arresting with regards to the April 15th Dadeville, Alabama shooting at a sweet-sixteen party. Three are under the age of 18. So… where’d they get the guns?

Six people – including four teenagers – have been arrested and now face murder charges in connection with the deadly rampage at a weekend Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, authorities say.

President Biden immediately called for more gun control, without acknowledging how these murderers obtained their weapons or if his proposed gun controls would have had any impact on these shootings:

In response to the shooting, President Joe Biden reiterated his calls for Congress to enact laws requiring safe storage of firearms and universal background checks, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.

Interestingly, the Vox article cited above includes a link to a firearms study by the NIH. It claims that higher firearm death rates are related to higher gun ownership rates. What I find interesting is the other correlations that they mentioned but did not emphasize in their report regarding race, crime rates and incarceration. Read about them in Tables 2 & 3 of the report (they are VERY interesting):

The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010

 

Where’d they get the gun?

I’m starting a new category called “Where’s they get the gun?”

Why, you might ask? Because all too often we are presented with stories on “gun violence” rather than criminal violence. But in many (if not most) cases the perpetrator (the real cause of the violence) wasn’t legally able to possess the firearm in the first place.

So I want to raise the question: “Where’d they get the gun?” to stress that if we want to lower gun crime then perhaps we should find those responsible for arming the criminals and put them in jail, too.

Look forward to my liberal use of this new category.