After Uvalde, Democrat pols and the Media screaming for more gun-control laws. And they're telling lies to get what they want

In the aftermath of a crazy 18-year-old killing 21 people in Uvalde, Democrat politicians and their allies in the mainstream media are again demanding gun confiscation.  Or alternatively, gun registration, which always makes confiscation possible.

To help achieve this, the Media are uploading a virtually endless series of lies to their political allies: that the U.S. has far higher mass shootings per-capita; and that countries with the strictest gun-control laws have fewer shootings.

Andrew Follett notes that both these claims are false:
  1. The U.S. has a far lower rate of shootings than many other countries with vastly stricter gun laws; and
  2. U.S. cities and states with the strictest gun laws have exponentially higher rates of gun violence.

The Media screams that the U.S. has more shootings than other nations.  But in point of fact the U.S., with almost 5% of the world's population, has just 1.15% of the world's mass shootings.  

Unable to rebut that, the Media then huff that the U.S. has more "mass shootings" than other nations.  But in fact, out of 97 countries with data, the U.S. ranks 64th in frequency of mass shootings and 65th in murder rate.

"Well," huff the Media, "because OUR shooters can buy scary black *automatic weapons--assault rifles,* our mass shooters kill lots more people than shooters in other countries."

But in fact, in France four times more people died in mass shootings per capita than the U.S.  But France has lots of murderous immigrants, so perhaps that's not a good comparison.  How does the U.S. compare to a much more homogenous population like, say, Norway?

On a per-capita basis, Norway had 21 times more citizens killed in mass shootings than the U.S.

Other first-world nations like Germany, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Spain and Israel have higher mass shooting death rates than we do.

And all of those countries have MUCH stricter gun control laws than the US.

Now let's compare U.S. states to see whether stricter gun laws reduce shootings here:

Wyoming has the highest gun-ownership rate of any state:  59.7% of households have guns.  The state also has  arguably the LEAST restrictive gun laws in the country.

So by Democrat thinking, Wyoming should have lots of shootings, right?  But in fact Wyoming's gun homicide rate is just 1.4 per 100,000-- lower than very tightly gun-controlled Canada, and only about a third of the average U.S. rate.

By comparison, Washington DC is tied for the most restrictive laws against gun ownership, and the lowest rate of legal gun ownership in the country.  So by Democrat logic it should have a fairly low rate of shootings.  But in fact *DC has the highest murder rate of any jurisdiction in the US*--a murder rate of 21.8 per 100,000, 15 times higher than Wyoming, and more than twenty times that of most European countries.

If stricter gun laws reduced gun violence rates, you'd expect jurisdictions with more-restrictive laws to have lower rates of gun violence.  But instead we find just the opposite.

By Dem logic, DC's low legal gun ownership rate and highly restrictive anti-gun laws, it should have fewer shootings per capita.  Yet it has the highest murder rate.  Clearly some other, mysterious factor must be accounting for the incredibly high murder rate.

As an aside: DC hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1933.  It hasn't had a single Republican on the city council since 2008.

Schumer has already been screaming that we need to confiscate guns, and other Dem talking heads on MSNBC and CNN have agreed.  Joy Reid even flatly said we need to repeal the Second Amendment--something the Democrats almost certainly lack the votes to do.  But given the outrage over Uvalde, my guess is that the Republicans will fold, and we'll get some sort of new gun-control law.

Facts are stubborn things--which is why Democrats and the mainstream Media prefer to ignore 'em.  In this case the facts suggest more laws won't reduce our already LOW rate of mass shootings or murders.  Instead we need to look for the real cause.  And in today's America that's not allowed.   

Oh, and one more thing:  Where did an 18-year-old whose only job was at a local burger place get $4000 to buy two rifles and 375 rounds of very pricey ammunition?