Democracy! The party of more and more gun control is now buying more guns.

We noted 2½ years ago that, after the bloodiest year ever – 562 murders in 2021 – even Philadelphia Magazine’s Victor Fiorillo, who strongly opposes Fox 29 News’ Steve Keeley actually reporting on crime, told us that Philadelphians are much more likely to apply for a permit to carry a gun.

Now it appears that significant numbers of the American left, who have been so forceful in their demands to violate our rights to keep and bear arms, have decided to keep and bear arms themselves. The Wall Street Journal:

The most surprising new gun owners are American liberals

After decades of decline, gun ownership is increasing among Democrats

by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson | Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 9:22 PM EDT

Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a lifelong Democrat, supports stricter gun laws and contributes to Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing gun violence.

But this summer, the liquor store clerk in Iowa City, Iowa, bought a gun for the first time in his life. Fears of street crime, armed far-right extremists and “whatever else the world might throw at us” were the driving forces behind his decision.

“Domestic politics have become increasingly grim,” said Ciemnoczolowski, 43.

This is a little laughable. “(Weapon) right-wing extremists”? It wasn’t the “right-wing extremists” who recently tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump. It wasn’t the “right-wing extremists” who shot up schools in Nashville and other places. And it certainly isn’t the “right-wing extremists” who are responsible for the “street crime” we’ve seen in Chicago, Philadelphia and our other major cities.

American gun culture has long been dominated by conservative, white males. Now, in a striking shift, a growing number of liberals are buying firearms, according to surveys and burgeoning gun rights groups that attract minorities and progressives.

“It’s a group of people who five years ago would never have considered buying a gun,” said Jennifer Hubbert, a professor of anthropology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, who has studied liberal gun owners.

Historically, it was not unusual for Democrats to own guns, since many more of them lived in rural areas. Hunting was also much more popular. But starting in the early 1990s, gun ownership among Democrats declined significantly. Increasingly divisive political battles over the role of firearms in American society led the Democratic Party to become a proponent of gun control. Republicans became the party of gun rights.

Today, Democrats are rediscovering guns.

Several paragraphs follow detailing liberals’ reasons for increasing their gun ownership rates, from a historic low of 22.5% in 2010 to 29.2% in 2022, the latest year for which data was available. That’s an increase of 29.78%, and since this is a percentage figure, it’s not an increase due to population growth. The number was just 25.4% the year before, up from 16.14% in just one year, the year after Joe Biden’s murderous bloodbath in his first year in office.

The Democrats interviewed for this article offered a variety of reasons, many of them political, that the Magazine authors have reported diligently on it, but 2021 and 2022 were years when Donald Trump lost lawsuits over voter fraud, and the January 6 case^and protesters being tried and jailed. The legitimate media tried to stoke fears about conservatives, but the violence of 2021 and 2022 was largely perpetrated by the criminal classes in our major cities.

Forty years ago, Democratic gun owners were typically white men, including auto and steel union workers who grew up hunting.

That line is downright bad reporting, something very unusual in the MagazineFour decades ago, Democrats were much more rural in the South than they are today. Four decades ago, Democrats controlled state legislatures and governorships in most of the South, rather than being as heavily packed in urban areas as they are today. The Magazine The comparison of those numbers wasn’t even as accurate as comparing apples and oranges, but more like comparing apples and turnips.

Of course, today’s Democrats generally don’t look much like the Democrats of “four decades ago.” The Democrats of forty years ago would have laughed at the idea of ​​gay marriage, pretty much opposed the Vietnam War as a relic, were all-out supporters of free speech, and would have thrown into the nuthouse anyone who thought a man could pass himself off as a girl and play women’s sports. The only Democrats who #woke up Forty years ago, those who woke up with their alarm clocks were the ones who actually went to work. The urban Democrats of the 80s who didn’t have guns were the ones who lived in safer neighborhoods.

The Democrats of forty years ago saw the weakening of the Soviet Union and called it a good thing, instead of electing socialists. They remembered the “Palestinians” as terrorists who attacked Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, instead of as somehow selfless martyrs and resistance fighters in Gaza.

Today we have the same party clamoring for more and more gun control and buying more and more guns for themselves. They want to defend themselves, not from evil Reich-wing gangs, but from criminals, criminals created and enabled by the Democrats’ own policies, yet they have to talk nonsense about Republicans and conservatives to justify their own hypocrisy.