For the Children: The Emotional Marketing of Gun Control

In his fascist masterwork Mein Kamph Adolph Hitler wrote “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. ” In the wake of every mass shooting egregious curtailment of personal liberty is proposed in the name of public safety and for the children . Thus, the left leverages the emotional rhetoric of fascism while simultaneously trying to paint all who oppose their collectivist world view as fascist. Oh, the irony. There are two fallacies inherent in the argument for gun control to save children: First, as is clearly obvious, “gun violence” is at its peak in the locales with the most stringent gun control. Look no further than Chicago or Baltimore. Criminalizing guns ensures…

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