It's A Hoax!
Anti-Gunners Use Health As A Scare Tactic
For the past several years, anti-gunners have insisted so-called “gun violence” — a term applying to anything involving gun-related injury or death, including homicide, suicide, self-defense or accidents — is a “public health crisis.”
Federal Absurdity
It was and remains a preposterous assertion. This past June, Joe Biden’s Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, made it official policy, at least so long as the Biden administration remains in power. As the government’s official position, it will allow Capitol Hill anti-gunners to introduce all kinds of restrictive legislation aimed at ratcheting down Second Amendment rights by using public health as an excuse.
Dr. Murthy wasn’t even subtle about using the pronouncement to push the Biden gun control agenda. He called for:
• Requiring safe and secure firearm storage, including child access prevention laws;
• Implementing universal background checks and expanding purchaser licensing laws;
• Banning assault weapons and large capacity magazines for civilian use;
• Treating firearms like other consumer products, including requiring safety testing or safety features;
• Implementing effective firearm removal policies when individuals are a danger to themselves or others; and
• Creating safer conditions in public places related to firearm use and carry.
According to the Surgeon General’s own website, here’s his job description: “The U.S. Surgeon General is the Nation’s Doctor, providing Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury. The Surgeon General oversees the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, an elite group of over 6,000 uniformed officers who are public health professionals. The USPHS mission is to protect, promote, and advance the health of our nation.”
It’s a stretch to associate firearms regulation with any of this, and unless Murthy and his 6,000 officers are credentialed as firearms instructors, none of them should be talking about gun safety. Likewise, the banning of whole classes of firearms, gun safety mechanisms, background checks or when and where to legally carry.
This has to be stopped before it gets started in the next Congress, and the policy must be reversed and erased. The only way to accomplish this is for grassroots activists to flood Congress with telephone calls, letters and emails for the next couple of months.
Gun rights leaders were quick to offer blistering rebuttal, which should guide your comments to Congress now.
Response
Randy Kozuch, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action was terse and direct: “This is an extension of the Biden Administration’s war on law-abiding gun owners. America has a crime problem caused by criminals. The reluctance to prosecute and punish criminals on the part of President Biden and many of his allies is the primary cause of that. That’s a simple fact.”
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, issued a scathing statement: “Gun ownership is not a communicable disease, it’s a constitutional right,” and that wasn’t all.
“This is just one more effort by the Biden Administration to demonize guns and the law-abiding citizens who own them,” Gottlieb continued. “The problem with violent crime is not that it is a disease, but a symptom of failed leadership, from the White House on down. From the day he took office, Joe Biden has treated gun owners like social lepers. He considers us second-class citizens who should be ostracized as though we are spreading a plague.”
Gottlieb called Murthy “Joe Biden’s mouthpiece.”
“The real crisis in America is the failed policies of the Biden Administration,” Gottlieb said. “Instead of focusing on locking up felons and disarming criminal gangs, he wants to disarm millions of honest gun owners whose only crime is that we exercise our right to keep and bear arms. Dr. Murthy says firearms should be treated like other regulated consumer products such as cars or pesticides. In that, he fails even high school civics, because cars and pesticides are not specifically protected by the Bill of Rights, but firearms ownership is.”
Readers receiving this issue of GUNS prior to the Nov. 5 election should let this guide your votes from the presidency on down. After the election, when winners are clearly identified, make sure they know you are watching and expect this nonsensical policy to be abandoned.
By making gun-related crime a public health issue, the Biden administration — at least for the time being — added one more weapon to use in its unrelenting crusade to crush the Second Amendment. An official policy like this could result in legislation requiring mental health evaluations for anyone applying for a carry license, and if Democrats hold the majority in Congress, it could actually pass. It would be an obvious infringement, but proving so would require costly litigation, which could drag on indefinitely.
60 Days
Following the Nov. 5 election, gun owners will have approximately 60 days to make sure new lawmakers know their concerns before the new Congress and most state legislatures convene. Send them a message, send them a Christmas card; get known by these people.
During the next two months, put together a package of proposed legislation — federal for Congress and state-level for legislators — and submit it. While some may mock this as foolish, it’s a way to smoke out the bad guys and identify the good guys. Here are some suggestions which can be refined for your local situation:
• Permit-less “constitutional carry.”
• Prohibit creation or expansion of so-called “sensitive areas” and remove any such existing designations.
• Make basic firearms safety courses part of the public school curriculum.
• Repeal any existing waiting periods, and any requirements for purchase permits.
• Repeal bans on original capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles.
Sure, these may seem an impossibly far reach but such proposals not only serve to identify friends and foes in public office, they also remind lawmakers of your presence. Expect polite rejection, but don’t be surprised if some lawmakers actually express their interest. Be willing to meet if invited, and also be prepared to entertain different ideas. People who insist “it’s my way or the highway” rarely accomplish anything, and they don’t get invited back a second time.
Keep this in mind: On the first day of the next Congress and the next Legislative session in your state, the campaign for 2026 begins. If we come out of November with pro-gun majorities in Congress and state legislatures, don’t make the mistake of other Second Amendment activists by not staying involved. This is not the time to pack up your tent and go home.
Remember Pericles’ words: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
