Rantz: Do Progressives really want a discussion on school shootings?

After any potentially avoidable tragedy, particularly when it’s gun related, Progressives say now is the time to have conversations about preventing these kinds of tragedies. Stop the prayers, let’s get to some action! Only, they don’t actually want a conversation; they want to install their one “solution” to ban guns.

Republicans are coming to the table with solutions. Some are good, some are bad, some are alright. But they’re having the conversation. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested, for example, that we limit the amount of entrances to schools. It’s a topic we discussed at the KTTH Freedom Series last month. You have way too many easily accessible entrances on most schools. Why not make it so those entrances are exit-only, have one or two supervised points-of-entry for schools? Have a resource officer on campus? Station them there. It makes sense given some of the details of the Santa Fe High School shooting.

But that’s not a conversation Progressives want to have. In the San Antonio Current, columnist Sanford Nowlin mocked Patrick, claimed the Lt. Governor wants to “ban doors, not guns.” Patrick doesn’t want to ban doors, of course, but this petty attack shows their true motive: they want to ban guns. The shooter is 17 years old. The gun laws were already supposed to stop him from getting them and not a single proposed law would have stopped him from stealing them from his father. And, though this didn’t stop Twitter from spreading the fake story, the shooter didn’t have an AR-15, the gun of choice for Progressives to villainize. So they quickly shifted the strategy to going after all guns — precisely what Democratic politicians say they don’t want to ban. That’s a lie.

CNN couldn’t wait to make this shooting political. In the second line of their breaking news story on Friday, they noted this is the 22nd school shooting. It is not and I’ve written about that previously. CNN counts all shootings that happen on or near a school as a “school shooting” which is their disingenuous way to create a narrative that a school shooting happens almost every week in this country. The shooter nor victim connected to the school in any way, shape, or form? Meh. It happened in a rec room after hours, so CNN calls it a “school shooting.” They do this to instill fear and get you to rally around gun control bills.

The sanctimonious bloggers who like to hit President Trump for his lies or misstatements, suddenly, argue facts don’t really matter. Neal McNamara, blogger for Patch, doesn’t seem to think facts matter suddenly; though he’s quick to troll me on Twitter. Why? Because you need lies, which instill fears, which make it easier when you push unconstitutional gun bans.

Here is a person with a rotten brain https://t.co/cmQd29gJx9

— Neal McNamara (@Neal_McNamara) May 20, 2018

Yet we’re told the fascist Trump is… instilling fears with lies to push unconstitutional laws. Right. Gotcha. Maybe if these people understood fascism, they’d see they might be engaging in it?

A common tactic here is when I point out the “facts” are lies (ironically coming from a network whose slogan has become “Facts First”), that I must somehow want more kids to die. Isn’t one dead student one too many? It’s sanctimonious drivel that doesn’t even aim to find a solution.

There haven’t been 22 school shootings. They purposefully count shootings that shouldn’t be, so they can say there’s been almost 1 school shooting a week. They want to push gun control laws without explicitly telling you, so, instead, they lie to you. https://t.co/v9EsdH1dEd

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) May 20, 2018

All needless deaths are one too many. But when you use fake data to come up with a solution, it means your solutions either won’t work or they’ll go overboard.

If you don’t actually want a conversation on ways to mitigate school shootings, and want to focus exclusively on gun laws, that is, undoubtedly, you’re right. And I’ll happily meet you for that debate. But let’s stop pretending you want conversations when you denigrate people who are offering prayers and solutions that stop short of violating our Second Amendment rights.

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