BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has just identified the “assault weapon” gun banners don’t want to ban, but when it comes to mayhem, this one has quite a body count to its credit, including eight people killed Sunday at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas.
A man identified as George Alvarez drove a motor vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians outside a migrant center in Brownsville, killing eight and injuring ten other people, say published reports. The suspect has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
“Brownsville was just the latest outrage which proves people intent on mass murder and mayhem don’t always use firearms,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “but in none of these cases has anyone ever tried to blame, and then ban, motor vehicles. Yet, the victims are just as dead.”
Gottlieb pointed to other cases of mass murder, but each time, the perpetrator was held responsible. Their choice of weapon was never demonized in the media the same way firearms have been singled out.
“Remember the six people murdered by Darrell E. Brooks when he drove an SUV through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021,” Gottlieb noted. “Sixty-two other people were injured in that rampage.
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“Eight people were killed on a New York City bike path in 2017 when an Islamic extremist deliberately ran them down with a rented pickup truck,” he continued. “The driver was punished, not every truck owner in America.
“Who can forget the 2016 mass murder in Nice, France when a man drove a large truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day,” Gottlieb recalled. “He killed 84 people and injured hundreds more.
“The charges in Brownsville properly identify the vehicle as a deadly weapon,” Gottlieb said, “but neither Joe Biden or his colleagues on Capitol Hill are screaming to ban cars or trucks, which aren’t protected by the Constitution and never have been. Firearms, on the other hand, are specifically protected, and they know it.
“The double standard at work here is staggering, and it underscores what we’ve been saying all along,” he observed. “It’s not the tool, but the person using it. Penalizing people who didn’t commit any crime, and banning guns that weren’t involved might be good for a headline, but it doesn’t accomplish anything.”
About CCRKBA
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
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Would not put anything past what this corrupt government would try to pull. All faith and legitimacy is lost in these institutions necessary for our republic. Once again all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Someone needs to find out what was in the Manifesto left by the Tranny Shooter that killed kids in the Christian School shooting.
Roger That!!!
I disagree. Many leftists want to ban vehicles citing environmental protection reasons. They want the common citizens to live like they are in some third world country walking, riding bicycles, or taking public transportation to get places while the elites ride in limos and fly in jets. It is not a weapons thing, but similar to a weapons thing, it is a control thing, a powerless common folk thing, making all common folk equally defeated and burdened. but not the elites.
Bingo!
Fjb anyone else besides me notice that everytime the democrat’s start the banning of guns bull 💩 is when the mass shootings start happening and most of the shooters have be teens are illegals and are in the blue states. So does this sound fishy to everyone or just me.
How can a teen or illegal immigrant afford a AR-15 assault rifles . Have you priced them there not cheap. And why all the sudden as a teen are a young adult or immigrant try to get legal status to live in the U.S. just start randomly killing. Think there’s some great influences or promise’s that’s happening that is being hidden.
What the hell is an AR-15 assault rifle?
Are you telling me the people Alvarez killed and injured were vehicular victims? Some of them?
slap a camo pattern on it then it can be a military grade weapon of war!
Would painting it black, swapping shift knob for a pistol grip (ala 70’s era Dodge), also suffice?
it might but then they can use tax dollars to tint the windows and put a set of spinners on it and call it activist transportation heh-heh