Democrats Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Like many of my fellow Americans, I was heartbroken to learn that Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the National Guard from West Virginia, succumbed to her injuries after she was shot by an Islamic terrorist on the streets of Washington, D.C. Her fellow Guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, remains hospitalized.

Beckstrom was 20 years old, not much more than my eldest son. I cannot fathom the grief her parents are enduring right now, or the nightmare Andrew Wolfe's family is living. They are in my thoughts and prayers.

However, I refuse to let their lives be used by Democrats to strip me of my rights and freedoms. The Islamic terrorist who shot them, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who overstayed his visa. He used a handgun to commit a heinous act of terrorism.

But instead of reconsidering the risks and dangers of importing millions of people from backwards cultures who despise Americans, and then feeding them anti-military propaganda as the "Seditious Six" have done, the Democrats have decided the real problem — yet again — is me and my guns.

This time, it's not just those scary "assault rifles" the Democrats are after. It's every gun. Including handguns, the most ubiquitous firearm in the U.S., with more than 150 million in circulation.

As I write this, my gun safe sits about six feet to my left, on the floor next to my bed. Two long guns are also in my room. To date, those guns have killed precisely zero people, and it will stay that way unless someone threatens my life and safety. There was a time I used to think that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her ilk genuinely believed that if I hand those guns over, Islamic terrorists and the various thugs they repeatedly let out of prison in the name of "criminal justice reform" and "equity" will maybe stop killing innocents.

I no longer think that, because they don't. They want me unarmed so I can live at the mercy of monsters like Lakanwal, George Floyd, Decarlos Brown, Jr. (arrested 14 times before murdering Iryna Zarutska), or Courtney Boose (arrested 99 times before stabbing a man in a gas station parking lot), or Alexander Dickey (arrested 39 times before murdering Logan Federico), or Lawrence Reed (arrested at least 49 times before he set Bethany MaGee on fire on Chicago's Blue Line train).

They want to make sure these criminals can assault, rape, and murder me, and that I'll either be a) killed or b) punished like Daniel Penny or Kyle Rittenhouse if I successfully defend myself against them. It is an insidious form of anarcho-tyranny, and a violation of the fundamental human right to self-defense — one that's not only enshrined in our Constitution, thanks to the Second Amendment, but by the very fact that my life has inherent value (and more value than any of the thugs who would seek to do me harm).

So no, Democrats. You are not getting my guns. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Because that's not the solution. The solution is to stop importing Islamic terrorists and to stop setting violent thugs loose on our streets.

You won't do either, so I'm keeping my firearms to keep me safe.