Popular evening cable news commentator Tucker Carlson took gun control advocates to task, explaining unceremoniously why gun control laws are invariably prone to failure, especially when it comes to mass killers, and his remarks have been transcribed at the Fox News website.
After sarcastically crediting Joe Biden with “single-handedly” ending “gun violence in the United States” by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Carlson goes on to discuss so-called “red flag laws” and how they are supposed to work, but really don’t. These are “laws that allow the government to disarm you by force without charging you with a crime, without bothering with due process.
“Once we do that,” Carlson observed, “and we are doing it, mass shootings like the one we saw in Buffalo this spring will never happen again. That’s what they promised us and the media assured us it was true – every word of it. What they never mentioned was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false because actually gun control does not stop bad people from using guns.”
Carlson’s commentary then focused on Buffalo, NY murder suspect Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old now accused in the Tops supermarket mass shooting that left ten people dead. He had “bragged in school” about wanting to “murder large groups of people.” He had a history of violence that allegedly, according to Carlson, included killing a cat “with his hands.”
He was apparently investigated at one point by New York authorities, “but in the end, nothing happened.”
“Ask anyone who knows anything about violence,” Carlson advised, “and wasn’t getting paid to lie to you about it, and you will learn the truth, which is it’s almost impossible to stop someone who’s dead set on harming other people.”
His remarks could be underscored by the slaying of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a country where it is nearly impossible for anyone to own a firearm. But the alleged assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, apparently built the murder weapon essentially from scratch. The barrels were made from steel pipe taped to a wood board. According to the New York Times, the suspect confessed to having built several weapons, which police investigators recovered when searching his residence.
Carlson’s remarks then focused on psychotropic drugs and what may be a connection between certain drugs and various mass killers.
“Don’t hold your breath waiting for CNN or Good Morning America to do a hard-hitting investigative piece on the potential connection between prescription drugs and violence,” Carlson cautions. “Probably not going to happen since they (prescription drug companies) sponsor those channels. They’re going to keep telling you it’s all about guns. It’s all about guns.”
