What Is the Goal for Gun Grabbers?

 The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns the Second Amendment – also known as the right to keep and bear arms. Every single time that some idiot decides to commit mass murder, the gun-control crowd goes wild. It happened again this week.

Some idiot committed mass murder when he killed 18 people in Maine on Wednesday. Just like clockwork, Vice President Kamala Harris praised the Australian gun bans on Thursday when speaking with the Australian prime minister, according to Sara Garstka at The Daily Signal. 

“Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country,” Harris said Thursday afternoon at the event with Australian leader Anthony Albanese. “And let us be clear, it does not have to be this way, as our friends in Australia have demonstrated.”

The vice president was referring to a series of gun-buyback programs in the commonwealth of Australia. The regulations followed a 1996 firearms massacre in Tasmania in which 35 people died and began with the National Firearms Agreement of 1996, which declared semiautomatic weapons illegal and prompted the surrender of close to 650,000 firearms. Since then, the Pacific Rim nation has tightly restricted gun ownership and continued to buy back legally owned guns and confiscate illegally owned firearms. But the measures have not been very effective at reducing the number of legally held firearms in the nation.

While the past 27 years of gun restrictions in Australia have decreased the number of gun-owning households by half, as of 2016, the number of firearms per licensed owner had increased from 2.1 to 3.9.

In 2017, there were an estimated 3.6 million firearms in Australia, compared with 3.2 million in 1996, the year of the mass killings in Tasmania, the Sydney Morning Herald reported in 2019. The newspaper noted that in 1997, after then-Prime Minister John Howard’s initial buyback of guns, there were an estimated 2.5 million firearms in the country.

Australia has established that bearing arms is a privilege and not a right. Today, Australian gun laws do not even include self-defense as a “justifiable reason” for owning a firearm. “It is a false choice to suggest we must choose between either upholding the Second Amendment or passing reasonable gun-safety laws to save lives,” Harris said in a written statement about the Maine shootings. “Congress can and must make background checks universal. Pass red flag laws. Ban high-capacity magazines. And renew the assault weapons ban.”

The Biden administration has been working to advance Second Amendment restrictions in the United States, establishing in September the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Harris oversees. The office will push to “enact universal background checks and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” the vice president said in a statement about the initiative.

Democrats and other leftists want to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. One of their tactics is to claim that guns take the most American lives each year. However, they never mention the 500,000 to 3 million American lives that are saved each year by guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. In addition, they never mention the 2363 unborn American babies killed every single day through abortion, adding up to 860,000 deaths of unborn American babies every single year. [Figures are from Garstka.]

So, abortions kill more Americans than guns every single year. It seems that saving American lives is not the purpose for gun control advocates. Therefore, the demand for gun control is simply a way to gain control of the citizenry, just like all tyrants.