Tucker Carlson goes straight to “civil war” as he predicts what the US will see with gun control.
On Wednesday night’s broadcast, the Fox News host waded into the gun control debate, which erupted again this week after the mass shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Carlson cited a statistic often cited by gun control advocates – that there are more firearms owned by civilians in the US than people.
“That’s true,” Carlson said, noting that there are more than 400 million firearms in the country, billions of rounds of ammunition, and that “about half of all US households have at least one gun in their home, and many have more than one. that.”
“These are all real numbers, but they’re hardly an argument for gun control,” Carlson said. “They are an argument, in fact, against.”
“Ask yourself: What would it take to confiscate all those guns and all that ammunition and turn the United States into a disarmed country like Turkmenistan or North Korea?” he continued.
“Well, it will take over the police state and it will end the civil war. No sane person wants either of those, but thank goodness we don’t need it.”
The gun death rate in the US is higher than in any other developed country. The US also has the laxest gun laws and the most firearms.
By 2020, firearms will overtake car accidents as the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 18 in the US. .
Three 9-year-old children and three adults were killed at Covenant School in Nashville when a 28-year-old gunman armed with three legally purchased guns opened fire.
The gun reform up for discussion in Congress doesn’t represent anything like the confiscation scenario Carlson described. Democrats and gun safety advocates have proposed reforms like stronger background checks for gun purchases, “red flag” laws to keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands and restrictions on assault-style firearms.
After Monday’s shooting, President Joe Biden again called on Congress to pass a bill that would ban assault-style weapons, but lawmakers disagreed. A federal assault weapons ban from 1994 to 2004 restricted the sale of these types of weapons, but allowed existing owners to keep firearms.