Gun control politicians seem to be stuck in a perpetual loop of recognizing that crime is a problem while ignoring the criminals who commit those crimes, instead call for more gun control in the name of “doing something.”
It’s happening again, this time in Delaware.
Anti-gun activists gathered to take away constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment rights from law-abiding Americans. U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Wilmington, Delaware’s Chief of Police Wilfredo Campos, the Delaware Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security, Joshua Bushweller and a “special guest” held a forum to talk about how to “reduce gun violence, and the challenges remaining in confronting the crisis,” according to local media.
That special guest was former Rep. Gabby Giffords, the namesake of the national gun control group. She was on stage, extolling her solution that’s centered on taking away Constitutional rights instead of getting tough on criminals misusing firearms.
Practice What You Preach
Years ago, Wilmington, Delaware, was known as “murder town” for the surges in crime and criminal firearm violence. It’s abundantly clear there’s a criminal issue at hand. But the issue isn’t with firearms or law-abiding Delaware gun owners. It’s fundamentally a crime issue and should be focused on how criminals illegally and illicitly obtain firearms.
Rep. McBride ignored that part, thinking criminals weren’t so much the problem. Instead, the Member of Congress suggested crime could be solved by layering on more gun control laws.
“We are only as safe as our nearest neighbor with lax gun laws,” Rep. McBride said.
States like Delaware, California, Illinois or New York already have gun control zealots in office who think the answer for everything is to create stricter legislation, up to and including confiscation. The problem is that stricter gun laws only impact those who respect and follow the law. Criminals, by definition, don’t concern themselves with laws.
Rep. McBride’ and the others in the Delaware gun control cabal believe in strict gun control, but don’t consider that those laws only keep law-abiding Americans from being able to buy and own firearms, fully exercising their Second Amendment rights. Again, criminals aren’t following their laws – they’re getting firearms any way they can. Criminals aren’t subjecting themselves to FBI NICS verifications or filling out ATF 4473 forms. Overwhelmingly, criminals obtain their firearms through theft or on the black market.
That willful ignorance of the facts is the same mantra Giffords proclaimed about her gun control beliefs a couple years ago.
“No more guns. Gone,” she answered when asked in 2023 about her gun control aims. An aide, trying to clean up her comments, tried to specify that the former Representative meant no more gun violence. But Giffords interrupted and clarified further, saying. “No, no, no. Lord, no,” she said. “Guns, guns, guns. No more guns. Gone.”
That’s the aim of the gun control activists who were sitting around the tables with Rep. McBride and who claim their efforts aren’t about taking away constitutional rights.
Plenty of Research, But Not Through Taxpayers
During the roundtable, Rep. McBride also complained about cutting taxpayer funds from funding “gun violence” research. That ignores some essential facts as anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg has enough pocket change to fund all the gun control research he wants. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund efforts that lead to their rights being denied. “Gun violence” research is severely biased and flawed and most often leads to still more gun control – it’s as simple as that.
There are more than enough Bloomberg bucks to fund research on so-called “gun violence” in Delaware – if that’s somehow different than crime in general. According to the Bloomberg-funded, gun control-supporting Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions, so-called “gun violence” in Delaware spiked nearly 10 percent in the years leading up to 2023.
Rep. McBride also misrepresented facts about neighborhood firearm retailers, or the so-called “rogue dealers,” as she smeared them. The truth is, firearm retailers are the front line defenders against illegal firearm misuse and acquisition. The data shows criminals overwhelmingly obtain their firearms from the black market, theft or by other illegal means. That’s why NSSF invests heavily in programs, like Operation Secure Store to help retailers protect against smash-and-grab thefts and Don’t Lie for the Other Guy to educate firearm retailers to detect and prevent attempted illegal “straw purchases.”
The continued crime problem is more closely linked to Delaware’s soft-on-crime approach. That includes bail reform approaches, which AG Jennings supports. Delaware’s crime problem wasn’t ignored by all. Ruth Briggs King, a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2024, pointed out the obvious: Criminal recidivism in Delaware was the second highest in the nation. Delaware’s politicians are more focused on punishing the law-abiding instead of holding criminals accountable.
Just Another Anti-Gun Agenda
Gun control activists, including Giffords, Rep. McBride and several others, continue to run the tired playbook of using scare tactics to take away rights from law-abiding Americans instead of focusing on the criminal.
These antigun elected officials like to tell voters of their “leadership” and continue to push more gun control as their preferred way to “keep people safe.” They ignore serious flaws in crime reporting data, though. They disregard when law-abiding Americans use a firearm in self-defense to deter a criminal, even when they don’t discharge their firearm. They also dismiss the more than 26.2 million Americans driven to purchase a gun by the policies enacted by these very same governors and mayors.
The story is the same, over and over. Elected officials like Rep. McBride will continue to use positions in Congress to push ineffective laws that don’t reduce crime but only restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans.
Whatever, Dude: Tim McBride (AKA Delaware Rep Sarah McBride) Whines About Being Referred to As ‘Transgender’
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/20/whatever-dude-tim-mcbride-whines-about-being-referred-to-as-transgender-n2417614
…gun violence in Delaware spiked nearly 10 percent in the years leading up to 2023.
Now for the rest of the story. The homicide rate remained relatively stable from 2014 to 2019. It even dropped quite a bit in 2019. Then 2020 happened. It wasn’t because of Covid. Covid initially led to lower crime rates because people were staying indoors. The shift happened because of Democrat rhetoric dancing in the blood of St. George Floyd and the subsequent Democrat soft on crime policy push. The people pushing gun control nonstop are the same people that are responsible for the sudden rise in homicides.
It isn’t like they didn’t know what would happen. As soon as the George Floyd reaction began, I posted on TTAG that we know how this ends. It’s called the Ferguson Effect. They knew people (mostly black) would be killed as they were pretending to care about black people’s lives mattering. These people are flat out evil.
Its part of their planned anacro-tyranny.
In the simplest terms of, the end goal, an anarcho-tyranny is when the state stops upholding its end of the social contract to use its monopoly on violence for its own ends. But to do that, to give it a facade of legitimacy, they need to take more and more control via laws while using those laws to oppress and take away freedoms usually in the name of ‘safety’ but at the same time ignore and even facilitate and cause social unrest and crime and violence the goal of which is to get the people to ask for more and more protection from ‘the state’ which deepens the control the ‘the state’ has. In this the ‘forces of the state’ are ‘always right’ and the individual is ‘always wrong’ and anything contrary to ‘the state’ narrative is a ‘lie’. Another of its goals is to ‘dumb down’ police forces under the weight of defective and incompetent leadership and decreasing their numbers which of course has the effect of letting crime grow that lets ‘the state’ use the crime as an excuse to enact more laws to gain more control. It happens incrementally. We just saw four years of this with the Biden admin and the democrats are trying to continue it. In this ‘the state’ doesn’t enforce order by stopping the bad guys, instead, they go after the citizens ‘freedoms’ claiming they must do this to stop the bad guys or maintain order or ‘save’ us. While in the background ‘the state’ is developing and funding and creating and facilitating a ‘re-alignment’ of society that supports them and will be used to keep them in power while indoctrinating newer generations into this ‘new social order’ (i.e. illegal aliens, the ‘trans nation’, gender and DEI and CRT indoctrination in schools) to create a subservient ‘class’ of a ‘majority’ for the ruling elites. In this mental illness is not a mental illness, but rather its ‘an identity’ or the fault of others – for example, trans is not the mental health issue of ‘gender dysphoria’ but rather its an ‘identity’ and ‘mentally ill mass shooters’ are not the fault of mental illness but rather the fault of law abiding people exercising the second amendment – all for the purposes of creating more control and turmoil in society to justify more control of ‘the state’.
But now that you mentioned 2020…. For example, the summer of 2020. Police seemed to be on a murder spree against black people – that was the left wing narrative. Of course there was no such murder spree but the narrative sparked violent riots across the country. But, when those riots broke out, the police largely stood by and did nothing as cities like Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. literally burned. But those people who defended their selves against the violence when it affected them were ‘wrong’ according to the ‘the state’ narrative and were punished severely, for example, Kyle Rittenhouse.
Another example: The horror of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas by a mentally ill killer Police literally stood around checking their phones and rubbing down with hand sanitizer while children were screaming as their classmates were being killed – a very incompetent leadership and cops dumbed down by it into basically inaction while waiting on incompetent leadership. In fact, the only thing the cops seemed interested in was stopping any parent (including fellow officers) from intervening. One mother escaped the cops and got her kids out, only to be harassed and threatened with legal action by the cops later. And a border patrol agent traveled to the scene and managed to get two other cops to go with him into the school to rescue several kids, the two cops were punished for doing that and the border patrol agent was threatened with arrest for doing that. And now today we know the supposedly locked door was really not locked and police could have entered at any time to save some or all of those kids, but were told not to enter or breech but rather wait on a ‘key’ by incompetent leadership that deliberately slowed and hindered the response aided by a bunch of coward cops afraid to do anything without being told to do it. But who’s fault is it according to the dems ‘state gun control calls’? Why of course, its the fault of law abiding people wanting to exercise their constitutional right under the 2A and to solve this problem of mentally ill killers ‘the state’ must enact more control over constitutional rights in the name of ‘safety’.
Then there is the socialism aspect this anacro-tryanny is supporting which is a goal of an anacro-tryanny on it march towards a eventual totalitarian state communism: Understanding how Socialism is quietly destroying America. The Chloe Trapanotto Show.
“…We are being lied to — and it’s time to expose the radical corruption creeping into our politics. In today’s show, I’m breaking down: Why Mamdani’s “free” programs would devastate housing, transit, and childcare in NYC, How Bolivia and other nations proved socialism fails every time, why socialist candidates with extremist ideals are quietly taking over the Democratic Party, why Americans are being told they’re suffering when in reality, opportunity and prosperity are greater than ever, and how billionaire-backed “grassroots” campaigns are fueling fraud and deception in the name of socialism. Don’t be fooled by fake empathy and empty promises. Socialism destroys economies, robs the middle class, and erases the very values that built America. This show is for political and non-political friends alike — because understanding what’s at stake is the first step in defending our country.”
https://bearingarms.com/videos/2025/08/20/understanding-how-socialism-is-quietly-destroying-america-n1229661
Devastating Exposé Of Dems’ Electoral Collapse Shows Media Lied About Trump’s 2024 Win.
“Trump’s win wasn’t merely a mandate, but a repudiation of Democrat policies.
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For months, the propaganda press insisted that President Trump didn’t win in a landslide. The goal was obvious: strip Trump and Republicans of any claim to a mandate and paint their popularity as inflated. But the narrative just crumbled, with a new report showing just how much ground Democrats lost in 2024.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/20/devastating-expose-of-dems-electoral-collapse-shows-media-lied-about-trumps-2024-win/
Activists Admit ‘Nonpartisan’ Voter Registration Schemes Were Always About Boosting Democrats.
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A member of the Democratic National Committee admitted that so-called nonpartisan voter registration schemes were always, in fact, partisan.
The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith concede in an analysis on Democrats’ cratering voter registration numbers that ‘For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits — which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democrat.’
But it’s Democrat strategist and member of the Democratic National Committee Maria Cardona who admits the underlying strategy of these supposedly non-partisan organizations: It was never about engaging voters; it was about engaging voters who would vote Democrat.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/20/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats/
BREAKING: Hogg’s Group Sued By Employees FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION As EveryTown Throws Him Under BUS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWXncre3Jw
Tulsi Stares Down UK, Scoring Another Big Win for American Consumers.
“The United Kingdom has a problem with the U.S.: It’s that pesky Bill of Rights and our refusal to surrender our rights to Britain’s censorship and due-process-busting domestic spying schemes.
Enter, stage right: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/08/20/tulsi-stares-down-uk-in-another-big-win-for-american-consumers-n4942872
JD Vance Defends Privacy, Pushes Back on UK Demand for Apple Backdoor.
“In a significant victory for digital privacy and American sovereignty, Vice President JD Vance played a central role in negotiating a deal with the United Kingdom to abandon its push for Apple to create a ‘backdoor’ into its encrypted devices. The agreement, brokered alongside President Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, reaffirms the Trump administration’s commitment to protecting the civil liberties of U.S. citizens in the digital age.
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[note – from further research: The Biden admin was willing to go along with this U.K. tyranny because they promised the Biden admin access to peoples iPhones and Apple devices.]
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/19/jd-vance-defends-privacy-pushes-back-on-uk-demand-for-apple-backdoor-n2662064
It’s Done: Texas Finally Passes New Congressional Maps.
“It’s over. Texas has a new congressional map for the 2026 midterms, though it took over two weeks after state Democrats unnecessarily fled to prevent a quorum. The new map gives Republicans five winnable seats, all majority Hispanic districts. …
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/20/its-done-texas-finally-passes-new-congressional-maps-n2662119
Sorry, Green Freaks, Your Global Warming Narrative Just Took Another Major Blow.
[note: basically their screaming of ‘the world will end unless you listen to us and do what he want, NOW!’ was basically BS.]
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/21/sorry-green-freaks-your-global-warming-narrative-just-took-another-major-blow-n2662130
Federal Judge Affirms Second Amendment Rights Cross State Lines.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/08/20/federal-judge-affirms-second-amendment-rights-cross-state-lines-n1229660
‘Pack the Bags, We’re Going on a Guilt Trip’—the Secret to the Democrats’ Success.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/08/20/pack-the-bags-were-going-on-a-guilt-tripthe-secret-to-the-democrats-success-n2193043
Oh the abundant hypocrisy and TDS and lies of the left wing… Democrats cry about wanting ‘illegal guns’ off the streets and reducing crime, but when they get what they said they wanted they cry about it: Here Are MORE Model ‘Citizens’ Democrats Tried to Keep Trump From Taking Off DC Streets.
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The extra law enforcement is helping get what the Dems say they want to stop, which is ‘illegal guns,’ off the street and yet they’re still opposed to what’s going on. It’s almost like the ‘common sense gun safety’ measures they call for are just BS excuses to try and disarm the law abiding.
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https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/08/21/here-are-some-of-the-model-citizens-dems-tried-to-keep-trump-from-taking-off-dc-streets-n2417364