Is American Democracy Really Under Threat?

Now that Joe has signed the first federal gun-control law passed by Congress in more than 25 years, what are the advocates for gun control going to do? Of course, they can keep advocating for more gun control but hey, we need to take a little break, right?

So, what the gun-control gang can always do is take what we know about guns and use this information to run another argument up the flagpole which will attract attention and keep us in the middle of the current debate, whatever the debate happens to be.

What do we know about guns that we didn’t know two years ago? We know that more people have bought guns, and we know that more people have been shot with guns. Do we know if these two facts are actually related to one another? No, we don’t.

But not knowing anything about guns has never stopped a gun-control expert like Garen Wintemute from getting media attention every time this ‘renowned’ Director of the UC/Davis Violence Prevention Research Program shoots his mouth off about guns.

His latest effort is a public opinion poll which is ‘very concerning,’ indeed, ‘very alarming’ because the results indicate that some Americans are not only losing faith in democratic institutions but are willing to use violence to prevent other Americans from voting and expressing different political views.