Guns don't kill people. Hammers don't jump off the shelf and smash heads. Knives don't leap of their own accords into chests.
People do these things. Bad people. Criminals.
The Democrats have simultaneously become the party of criminals, advocating euphemisms such as "sentencing reform", engaging in mass pardons of criminals and restorations of voting rights, dismantling key tools for fighting gang violence, such as stop and frisk, while inveighing against the inanimate objects with which the violence is committed.
That's followed by lectures about how anyone in the pay of the inanimate object lobby has "blood on their hands".
But somehow the left that screeches that we must let every terrorist into America never has blood on their hands when they run down people in the street. That's probably the fault of the car lobby.
Inanimate objects don't commit crimes. Criminals do.
Banning a class of an inanimate objects as a preventative measure can be debate. But there is no debating the fact that the inanimate objects are not the root cause.
Gun violence is largely the work of gang members in Democrat urban areas. The same people whom Obama's Ferguson Effect unleashed. The same people Black Lives Matter is fighting for.
Who has blood on their hands again?
Black Lives Matter was called into being to protest what the racist hate group claimed was the killings of black men by police. Activists with the extremist organization have accused law enforcement of genocide. According to a study widely touted by activists, 300 black people were shot by police in 2015.
That same year 320 black people became homicide victims in Baltimore alone.
In 2014, 189 died. And then Baltimore came under assault from Black Lives Matter over the Freddie Case leading to riots and the Ferguson Effect crippling law enforcement efforts. The police became the villains. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake offered the racist rioters and looters space to destroy. Along with the businesses and sense of security, here is what else was destroyed.
An additional 131 black men died in 2015 in Baltimore. 16 black women were murdered in both 2014 and 2015. The huge increase came at the expense of black men. The biggest bump in homicides, 49 to 99, happened among young black men aged 18 to 25.
Shall we compare those to the school shootings that the left loves to screech about?
The left loves to talk about triggers. It hates to talk about those hand is pulling them.