(Video: CNN)
Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R) has often proven himself to be a foil to the typical Republican voter despite his conservative protestations, but when it comes to the Second Amendment the former U.S. Navy SEAL can attest that “guns in this country are not a problem.”
The combat veteran appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday to discuss with Dana Bash what measures could be taken to prevent another tragedy like the one that happened in Uvalde, TX Tuesday. Using the solemn memorial outside Robb Elementary School where 19 children and two teachers were murdered as a sordid backdrop for her argument, Bash attempted to make the case that by their existence alone, guns pose a danger.
“It sounds like you’re saying guns in this country are not a problem. Is that what you’re saying?” she asked as the conversation carried on. “I mean, there are 300 something million people, 400 million guns. You don’t see that as a problem?”
“No,” Crenshaw replied matter-of-factly. “Culturally we are a country that has long had a Second Amendment that believes in the right to self-defense. I don’t think it’s a problem that I own guns.”
“And I know if I destroyed all of my guns it would have zero effect on crime,” he went on. “It would have zero effect on gun homicides because I’m not the person who goes and shoots somebody.” The Texas lawmaker went on to point out that he would be the kind of person that would use a firearm to defend someone else’s life before schooling bash on the “hundreds of thousands of cases a year where somebody uses a gun to protect themselves or protect others.”
Crenshaw was citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make his claim. Meanwhile, a similar assessment was made by the Social Science Research Network that estimated approximately 1.67 million incidents per year of a firearm being used defensively with more than three-quarters of those occurrences taking place on the gun owners property or within their home.
While Bash tried to argue that Republicans weren’t offering solutions, as she frequently interrupted the congressman who explained the numerous times school safety laws had been promoted, she drove forward with the Democrat talking points that attempt to reimagine the Founders intent in drafting the Second Amendment.
“A lot of these policies that I think the Democrats often propose that are gun control policies,” Crenshaw explained, “they do two things. One, they infringe on the rights of millions and millions of gun owners. Two, they probably wouldn’t have the outcome that you’re hoping for. So if you’re not going to get the benefit that you want but it’s going to come at great cost, it generally means it’s not a very good policy.”
“How can you be so sure?” Bash asked incredulous.
“We can look at data, we can have discussion for awhile, but the correlation between gun ownership and gun violence is not very strong. It’s not as strong as a lot of people tend to believe it is,” he asserted.
When Bash later used an excerpt of the Second Amendment to uphold the claim that it is strictly for “A well regulated Militia,” the former SEAL noted there was a comma after that and explained, “There’s two different ideas to the Second Amendment. There’s the individual right to own a gun and there’s the right of the people to have a well regulated militia.”
In fact, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, considered the father of the U.S. Constitution and the mastermind behind the Bill of Rights had stated in one of his many arguments in favor of an armed populace, “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials.”
As to her argument against “weapons of war” being readily available to civilians, Crenshaw debunked that claim as well explaining that even the similar firearms used by service members are not readily available to average Americans and those are more commonly used for self-defense. In contrast, actual weapons of war are not available to the public.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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Growing up as small children we were not allowed to even touch hunting rifles and any gun in our homes, they were in a cabinet and we were taught the harms they can and could cause to ourselves and others if not properly taught how to use them. I have always had that sense of being scared of guns etc. but the risks of having one outweighs the fear of not having one. These people in Congress have 1 goal and it is only being driven as a democrat Congress goal as well as others for the UN. They have stated it quite frankly, small arms too. How else can other draconic ideals and goals of theirs be passed thru? Thru lies and deceptions. They might as well shut up until they rid all their protections of having their own guns etc. and their bodyguards who carry guns for THEIR protections gone. They have clearly demonstrated that they are the useful idiots and we are just the useless people in the way of their 2021/2030 agendas that are being pushed on all Nations. Not one time ever does congress manage military or guns that they have pushed into other countries. Obama was a sure let down on his fast and furious scheme, that had and has caused more deaths. The more these people get involved the more harm they have produced. We know Ukraine is a hot bed for corruption from the West. Too much information was covered on Ukraine back in and around the years of 2013/14 and 2015. from mainstream news, BBC was one of them, Azov is a Nazi group that US is funding with no hold back on pushing arms in, same as they did in Syria.
Instead of being constantly critical of guns that people have for self protection, they need to be going after the producers of these violent video games, which it seems a lot of these shooters, who aren’t wrapped too tightly, seem to be playing hours on end, then act out the game. I doubt congress will take those on though.
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Well, at least that’s one thing he got right. But then, it’s only common sense for the rest of us. By default, most things aren’t “problems” until somebody comes along and does what he probably knows he shouldn’t be doing. Saying we have to get rid of whatever he misused in the act is just throwing the baby out with its bath water.
I’ve already said leftists are Rousseau’s followers; agency as we know it is something that comes from our institutions, rather than from the individuals said institutions corrupt. And so the statistics Crenshaw cited won’t change their minds; even self-defense is an unnecessary tragedy to them, another by-product of a broken society that sprang up from a belief in private property.
Until we can get them out of Rousseau’s envy-driven fever-dream and into the real world, they won’t change their minds about firearms.
2nd Amendment shall not be infringed! A well regulated militia is local citizens with local authorities. The militia is NOT the U.S. National Guard! A citizen needs a modern day rifle to equal power of a modern day government in cases the social contract is subverted by ambitious power grab of men.
Dan Crenshaw is anti 2nd Amendment piece of sh#t! He was for gun confiscation before he was against it. Who cares about his military service! Too many jerk offs in the military. I was speaking with a Marine sniper who voted for Communist Joe Biden and had no idea of Joe Biden’s 40 years of Communism and 2nd Amendment infringement. No idea! The real world isn’t tv ladies and gentlemen, people are a dumb as dogsh#t. That said, Senator Jon Cornyn & Congressman Dan Crenshaw both attended Claus Schwab Rothschild ‘Davos meeting’ which is anti United States Constitution. Moreover, Pedro Arredondo, the Sheriff Public Safety who ordered the stand down was appointed to City Councilman District 3.
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