Posobiec explains how gun owners are being used as scapegoats for community failure

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec explained on Tuesday's rendition of his show that law-abiding gun owners were being used as scapegoats due to failures in community.

Posobiec said that communities used to watch out for one another, and recognized when someone needed to have an eye kept on them.

"It used to be that especially in small towns like [Uvalde], you knew who the problem people were and you kept an eye on them. You knew who was an issue, and number one you kept an eye on them, or number two, you said 'you know what, this person, they rise to the level of needing institutional confinement' and you would institutionalize them. You'd send them to a mental institution... where they could be observed, monitored, and hopefully treated.

Posobiec spoke about his own childhood, and how his father and grandmother used to work at a large mental institution outside of Philadelphia. He describes his memories of that system being dismantling in the 90s.

"I saw them slowly dismantling that system and defunding it, breaking it down and I remember asking my dad, 'what's going to happen to all the people that are inside here? Where are they going to go? Who's going to take care of them.' and he said, well, they're going to graduate and they're going to go out."

"I remember playing little league in our town when I was a kid, and the baseball field... was actually just across from the mental institution, literally right across the street... I remember there being a situation where a patient had escaped and escapes happened from time to time, and it was always the talk of the town, and so I remember my dad saying, when we went to baseball practice or playing a game there, just be careful, be on the lookout because you don't know what type of person might just be walking by the baseball field.

"That's how it used to be in small towns, that's how it used to be in a town environment, that you knew what was going on, you took care of your own. If you knew someone was a problem you kept an eye out for them or you took steps to deal with the issue. We don't act like that anymore for some reason," he said.

Posobiec then said that law-abiding gun owners were being blamed for failures in society.

"We act as if society is to blame for everything that goes wrong, and then you turn around and say, 'okay, we're going to blame law-abiding gun owners," he said.

Posobiec went on to explain how President Biden was using Canada, which he calls a vassal state, to push legislation that turns the public against guns, since he is unable to do so in his country due to the US's strong gun culture.

He said that other countries will follow in Canada's footsteps.

"This is something where it has become a cultural touchstone to virtue signal, and then you look at Canada, right? It's almost as if Biden knows that he can't get most of America on board with the things he's saying, so he goes to Canada because Trudeau is another one of these World Economic Forum globalist technocratic liberals, so what he does is say, 'look, we can't get anybody in the United States to back me up, so I gotta go to you and act like a vassal state of the globalist American empire, and you need to announce a ban on handguns.

"'You need to hyper signal forward,' and you watch, Australia will do something, the UK will do something, and there's a reason for this. The reason for this is, that inside the United States, you do not have the same type of appetite for it."

He then describes how, in his experience, he's noticed that Ukrainians see the whole situation as a matter of culture, saying that Europe and the US simply do not have the same type of gun culture as one another.

"I've been over here in Europe for the past two weeks. The story has come up as I've been here, it's simply seen as a huge difference. It's just looked at differently between the United States and Europe. Europeans do not have the same gun culture as the US. But I will say something, having come from Ukraine just now, the people of Ukraine would not be able to be fighting back right now in any way if they did not have access to firearms.

"Chairman Mao even said, political power grows in the barrel of a gun. That's where you get your political power from, at the end of the day, it comes down to guns and steel. The people of Ukraine are fighting back because they know that."