Speaking of speaking the truth, at Bearing Arms today, Tom Knighton has a piece entitled House Dems Get Offended Over Speaker's Pro-Gun Comments. The article perfectly exemplifies what I said about speaking the truth as picking up a rock to find a snake that slithers under another rock. The Speaker noted that the murders of 18 people and injury of 13 others in Lewiston, ME. had nothing to do with guns, but with the human heart.
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons,” Mr Johnson said after the violence and then advocated for the Second Amendment in the next breath.
Democrats slammed this perspective, calling it “factually wrong” and said it “paints a dark view of America and its people.” The lawmakers argued, “Gun violence in America is not inevitable, it is simply tolerated by Republican leadership,” and called for the passage of gun legislation as an actionable way to prevent these attacks.
As Knighton notes
First, they call that “troubling?” There’s nothing troubling about saying that guns aren’t the problem, the problem is that people want to kill others.
It’s what we in the real world like to call “the truth.”
Nor do his comments paint a “dark view of America and its people.” That’s better done by Democrats who support the idea that our nation and the majority of its people are irredeemably racist, sexist, homophobic, and guilty of every other significant brand of hate you care to name simply because of the way they were born.
Somehow, though, I don’t see these Democrats lashing out at that.
As I have already said, we will have to wait to see how Speaker Johnson translates his faith into policy, but so far I like someone who tells the truth. I have not seen a gun yet that takes it upon itself to kill anything. It is always a tool of someone with murder in his heart. It is the human condition.
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