Let me ruin your June for a second.
Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.
So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.
In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.
Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.
But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.
Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.
ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.
I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.
Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?
There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.
Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.
Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.
When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.
There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.
No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.
Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.
I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.
So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.
I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.
You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.
But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.
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@Grok Between Experimenting on his own populace with COVID, probably funding Hamas and standing down on 10/7, this recent ignoring the face that Iran has Hypersonic missiles... Does this make Netanyahu perhaps the most Pragmatically Antisemitic World Leader?
Vaccines kill babies.
The vaccine industry knows.
Politicians know.
Pediatricians know.
Mainstream media knows.
Medical examiners know.
When will parents know? 🤷♂️
"It doesn't matter if a judge broke the law, judges shouldn't be arrested."
Also from the same people...
"Indict Trump! He's got to be guilty of something.
Remdesivir Was Declared Too Deadly & Unethical To Use In African Ebola Trials Because It Had A 53% Kill Rate.
Yet, It Was The Only Drug Fauci Allowed To Be Used On COVID Patients In Hospitals.
Families Whose Loved Ones Were Killed By Remdesivir Call It 'Run-Death-Is-Near.'
Remdesivir kills kidney function, combine that with a ventilator & patients develop pulmonary edema, causing their lungs to fill with fluid & drown to death.
Remdesivir kills the liver & causes organ shut down.
In the halted Ebola trial, Remdesivir mortality was 53% overall & 85% mortality in those with high viral load.
The US Govt BRIBED Hospitals to Administer a Kidney and Liver Toxic Drug with incentives & huge bonuses.
Remdesivir is so lethal it got nicknamed ‘Run Death Is Near’ after it started killing thousands of Covid patients in the hospital.
Anthony Fauci claimed that Remdesivir would stop Covid; instead, it stopped kidney function, then blasted the liver & other organs.
What the US government never told you about Remdesivir is that by November 2020, even the WHO said, "Do not use Remdesivir."
But instead, HHS added a 20% bonus on the entire hospital if they administered this liver and kidney-toxic drug.
That 20% bonus ended up being a BIG pay day.
Before Taking His Role at HHS, RFK Jr. Warned the World also:
“Tony Fauci Knew That Remdesivir Would Kill You.”
“How does it kill you?” he asked. “Kidney failure, heart failure & all-organ collapse.”
“All the doctors said ... ‘We’ve never seen a virus that attacks the kidneys.’ Because it wasn’t the virus; it was the Remdesivir.”
Remdesivir is still being used in hospitals today...
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How about literally everyone who thinks America is guilty of stealing the USA from the indigenous people, agree with me to give Manhattan back. Let's start a petition Martha's Vineyard and Manhattan goes first.
@__bee_kay__ "Do you vote democrat?"
"Are the Vaccines Safe and Effective? "
"How many boosters have you had?"
"Is Fauci a good doctor?"
"Is the Government honest about the USS Liberty, or Tower 7?"
2 of my kids are lifeguards, and I hope no place that ever hires them expects them to be babysitters. I really don't think you understand my point, and I think this kid might not have been the right person to be a lifeguard but shit, man do you know of any pool anywhere that allows 5 year olds to swim unattended (with or without a lifeguard?)
@catturd2 He did the voice of the Joker for Batman the Animated Series, and he was awesome, he also played "Cockknocker" in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
But yeah he's a blue milk titty drinking asshole.
@LouEsposito67@its_The_Dr A 5 year old?
A group of 5 year olds?
Where I am from and the camps and pools I have been to and worked at, never I mean NEVER would a bunch of kids under 12 (some places 16) be allowed to be in the pool unattended leaving only the lifeguard responsible.