Gun Control Activists Downplay Gun Control As Solution To Crime
By Cam Edwards | Jul 31, 2021 11:30 AM ET



Take a recent op-ed by two longtime activists, which barely mentions imposing new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms and instead focuses on ways to reduce violence without more policing. Now, more policing is at the heart of the gun control movement; it’s reliant on law enforcement in fact. After all, every new gun control law must be enforced somehow, and cops are generally the ones to arrest individuals for violations of those laws.

Yet in the pages of the Washington Post activists Rachel Usdan and Roger Marmet, who are both affiliated with Moms Demand Action (Usdan is a former chapter leader in D.C. and Marmet currently serves as the D.C. chapter’s “city gun violence lead”), gloss over the organization’s support for criminalizing common aspects of gun ownership and instead spend most of their column promoting strategies to “transform the lives of the small number of individuals who are most at risk of becoming perpetrators or victims of violence.” In fact, this is the only mention of gun control in their entire piece. [link to bearingarms.com (secure)]