Gun control groups don't like it when life is peaceful. They may say they want a reduction in so-called gun violence, but they also can't raise money when people aren't freaking out about that so-called gun violence.
With that in mind, it shouldn't be surprising that they're willing to misrepresent the facts.
On X, Giffords posted this little tidbit on Wednesday:
There have been dozens of shootings in Trump’s first 100 days back in office, and he’s done nothing to address gun violence. Instead, he’s fought to arm people convicted of domestic abuse and let rogue gun dealers off the hook.
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 30, 2025
Trump has been soft on crime and bad for America. pic.twitter.com/ePDoJaa17y
I mean, they're right. Trump has "done nothing to address gun violence," if you consider that the only way they see to address it is gun control.
Now, I could go on a diatribe about the whole domestic abusers and rogue gun dealers thing, but I'll leave it to just saying those are both gross misrepresentations of what Trump has done in either case.
But the bulk of their claim is that we're in danger, that crime is running rampant because Trump hasn't passed gun control and even rolled some back.
Only that's not the case.
Per GVA: pic.twitter.com/vuM0U6DVrv
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) April 30, 2025
Now, the Gun Violence Archive has its issues, but that's part of what makes this take so beautiful. It's an organization that the media quotes all the time and that groups like Giffords refer to regularly.
And they say it's shaping up to be the safest year on record since 2016.
That's significant, to say the least.
Sure, a lot can change as we move into summer, and those numbers will undoubtedly increase to some degree through the rest of the year, but it undermines the entire Giffords argument.
But they'll still make it.
Over the years, we've seen violent crime ebb and flow, often completely independent of any gun control passed by states. We did see homicides go up right after the passage of the Gun Control Act in 1968, which shouldn't have happened if gun control advocates were right. We also couldn't point to the drop in crime after the National Firearms Act's passage in 1934 as having started with the repeal of Prohibition a short time earlier.
We saw the homicide rate of the 1990s go down before the 1996 Assault Weapon Ban passed, and continued to go down after its sunset.
Through it all, anti-gunners have claimed that gun control causes a reduction in violent crime, despite plenty of evidence showing that to be nonsense.
Now, we have Giffords trying to downplay how there's less so-called gun violence despite things currently shaping up to be the safest year in nearly a decade, all so they can take a shot at Trump and his pro-gun moves. They know it's not getting worse, so they have to lie about it.
When crime goes up, the answer is gun control.
When that fails to make it go down, the answer is more gun control.
When crime goes down without gun control, it's still a problem, and we need gun control.
It's ridiculous how they can't even think.
