AOC Believes In a Magical Line That Turns Guns Evil and It Happens to Exist Between Indiana and Illinois – Opinion

Is your gun innocent and sweet? Well, don’t take it across a magical barrier that somehow perfectly mimics the state lines between Indiana and Illinois, because according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the moment you do your gun will become wicked and murderous like a mogwai that was fed after midnight.

Worse, this Gremlin Gun is more evil the closer it gets to Chicago.

“There’s no discussion about gun violence in Chicago without talking about Indiana because the violence and the mothers that we have to comfort are losing children due to the guns and the carnage and the lawlessness unleashed by those states,” she said during the House hearing on gun violence.

AOC: “There’s no discussion about gun violence in Chicago without talking about Indiana, because the violence and the mothers that we have to comfort are losing children due to the guns and the carnage and the lawlessness unleashed by those states.” pic.twitter.com/4B7hXatqnx

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 8, 2022

Two tweets are needed to respond immediately to the above. They ask simple questions.

How is it possible that Indiana guns aren’t responsible for the same amount of crime as those from Winnetka, Naperville, or Palos Heights.

— Keith Maniac, from Guatemala (@from_maniac) June 8, 2022

You can clearly see that AOC is using fallacies as a result of these simple questions. There’s no doubt in my mind that guns in Chicago are coming from outside areas because getting a gun in Chicago in a legal manner is so difficult that it’s hardly worth the effort to try. It should also be noted that, at this moment, Indianapolis is more violent than Chicago, and it’s likely that more than a few factors are contributing to this, but one thing that hasn’t changed is Indiana’s gun laws, at least not by much. A firearm law will take effect soon that will allow people over the age of 18 to carry a handgun in public without a permit, but it hasn’t taken effect yet.

As usual, guns can be ruled out as the cause.

The second tweet highlights this fallacy. If Indiana guns are the problem, then why aren’t we seeing Indiana guns create high levels of havoc in every other city in Illinois? What’s causing Chicago to be a hotbed of gun crime with guns that originate in Indiana?

We can easily conclude that the issue resides with an issue happening in Chicago, and it’s not like that data isn’t there. We’ve got years of info as to what causes the gun crime in Chicago, and it’s the gang/drug culture. Even if a gang isn’t necessarily behind a crime, the spillover from these cultures is still seductive.

All over the country, crime is on the rise. We’re post-pandemic and we have a wide-open border. The crime rate is also influenced by Democrat politicians. These are but a few factors that lead to the nation’s overall criminal problem.

The gun should not be blamed, but the person using it. It’s treating a symptom, not a disease, and badly at that. AOC must go deeper than the surface to understand why gun crimes happen and how to stop them. First, we must ignore all the gun owners that break no laws to be able to conclude gun control is the right solution.

I’m not sure if AOC understands this, given her displayed level of intelligence, but I’m willing to bet many other Democrats do. The issue is that looking at anything but the gun isn’t conducive to the agenda, and so the underlying causes won’t even be discussed by anyone with a “D” next to their name.

There are no barriers to entry, only sad facts being ignored.