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August 20, 2025
U.S. Rep. Teams Up with Gabby Giffords for ‘Gun Violence’ Forum
Gun control politicians seem to have themselves stuck in a perpetual loop of recognizing crime is a problem, ignoring the criminals that commit the crimes and instead call for gun control in the name of “doing something.”
It’s happening again. This time in Delaware.
Antigun activists gathered to take away Constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment rights from law-abiding Americans. U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Wilmington, Delaware’s Chief of Police Wilfredo Campos, the Delaware Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security, Joshua Bushweller and a “special guest” held a forum to talk about how to “reduce gun violence, and the challenges remaining in confronting the crisis,” according to local media.
That special guest was former Rep. Gabby Giffords, the namesake of the national gun control group. She was on stage, extolling her solution that’s centered on taking away Constitutional rights instead of getting tough on criminals misusing firearms.
Practice What You Preach
Years ago, Wilmington, Delaware, was deemed “murder town” for the surges in crime and criminal firearm violence. It’s abundantly clear there is a criminal issue at hand. But the issue isn’t with firearms or law-abiding Delaware gun owners. It’s fundamentally a crime issue and should be focused on how criminals illegally and illicitly obtain firearms.
Rep. McBride ignored that part, thinking criminals weren’t so much the problem. Instead, the Member of Congress suggested crime could be solved by layering on more gun control laws.
“We are only as safe as our nearest neighbor with lax gun laws,” Rep. McBride said.
States like Delaware, California, Illinois or New York – already have gun control advocates in office who think the answer for everything is to create stricter legislation, along with taking firearms away. The problem is that stricter gun laws only impact those who respect and follow the law. Criminals, by definition, don’t concern themselves with laws.
Rep. McBride’s, and the others in the Delaware gun control cabal, believe in strict gun control but don’t consider that those laws only keep law-abiding Americans from being able to buy and own firearms, fully exercising their Second Amendment rights. Again, criminals aren’t following the laws – they’re going to get firearms any way they can. Criminals aren’t subjecting themselves to FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473. Overwhelmingly, criminals obtain firearms through theft or the black market.
That willful ignorance to the facts is the same mantra Giffords proclaimed about her gun control beliefs a couple years ago.
“No more guns. Gone,” she answered when asked in 2023 about her gun control aims. An aide even tried to specify that the former Representative meant no more gun violence. But Giffords interrupted and clarified further, saying. “No, no, no. Lord, no,” she said. “Guns, guns, guns. No more guns. Gone.”
That is the aim of the gun control activists sitting around the tables with Rep. McBride and who claim their efforts are not about taking away Constitutional rights.
Plenty of Research, But Not Through Taxpayers
During the roundtable, Rep. McBride also complained about cutting taxpayer funds from going to “gun violence” research. That also ignores essential facts as antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg has enough pocket change to fund all the gun control research he wants. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund efforts that lead to their rights being denied. “Gun violence” research is severely biased and flawed and most often leads to more gun control – it’s as simple as that.
There are enough Bloomberg bucks to fund research on so-called “gun violence” in Delaware – if that’s somehow different than crime in general. According to the Bloomberg-funded, gun control-supporting Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions, so-called “gun violence” in Delaware spiked nearly 10 percent in the years leading up to 2023.
Rep. McBride also misrepresented facts about neighborhood firearm retailers, or the so-called “rogue dealers,” as the Member of Congress smears them. The truth is firearm retailers are the frontline defenders against illegal firearm misuse and acquisition. The data shows criminals overwhelmingly obtain their illegal firearms from the black market, theft or other illegal means. That’s why NSSF invests heavily in programs, like Operation Secure Store® to help retailers protect against smash-and-grab thefts and “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy™” to educate firearm retailers to detect and prevent attempted illegal “straw purchases.”
The continued crime problem is more closely linked to Delaware’s soft-on-crime approach. That includes bail reform approaches, which AG Jennings supports. Delaware’s crime problem wasn’t ignored by all. Ruth Briggs King, a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2024, pointed out the obvious: Criminal recidivism in Delaware was the second highest in the nation. Delaware’s politicians are more focused on punishing the law-abiding instead of holding criminals accountable.
Just Another Antigun Agenda
Gun control activists, including Giffords, Rep. McBride and several others, continue to run the tired playbook of using scare tactics to take away rights from law-abiding Americans instead of focusing on the criminal.
These antigun elected officials like to tell voters of their “leadership” and continue to push more gun control as their preferred way to “keep people safe.” They ignore serious flaws in crime reporting data, though. They disregard when law-abiding Americans use a firearm in self-defense to deter a criminal, even when they don’t discharge their firearm. They also dismiss the more than 26.2 million Americans driven to purchase a gun by the policies enacted by these very same governors and mayors.
The story is the same, over and over. Elected officials like Rep. McBride will continue to use positions in Congress to push ineffective laws that don’t reduce crime but only restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans.
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