By: Kayleigh Hamilton

Maybe Gabby Giffords should take a step back from her anti-gun crusade.

She clearly doesn’t know basic facts about guns.

And you’ll be shocked when you find out the humiliating mistake she made.

One of the dirty secrets about many of the people who advocate for gun bans is that they actually know very little about the issue they have devoted their lives to.

You would think that if someone is trying to ban guns, they would actually do research into what exactly they are trying to ban.

But that clearly is too much to ask for the folks over at Giffords, the gun control organization that describes itself as being “led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.”

Giffords, of course, was tragically shot in a violent attack by a crazed gunman in 2011. Thankfully, she survived the attack. Political violence is a horrific thing no matter which side is targeted.

But since then, she has been committed to banning guns in this country, and her organization has turned into one of the top gun control groups in America in terms of lobbying power.

It seems, though, that they don’t know very much about their core issue.

According to Bearing Arms, “We all knew that groups like Giffords wouldn’t be thrilled with the Supreme Court’s decision on bump stocks. Now, it’s a matter of administrative law that, frankly, everyone should be able to rally behind versus a true Second Amendment issue, but Giffords and other anti-gun groups were never going to see it that way.”

“But for all the hysteria, it seems Giffords doesn’t even know what a bump stock actually is.”

This was based on a tweet that Giffords sent out in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Trump’s 2017 bump stock ban.

The tweet was a generic call to sign a petition telling Congress to ban bump stocks. But the graphic had a picture on it of something that was clearly not a bump stock.

The article explains, “That’s an adjustable butt stock like you’d get standard on most AR-15s.”

“Look, it’s not hard to find what a bump stock looks like. Google is filled with images of them. The AP uses photographs in their feed–a feed we often use for our own photographs of bump stocks–so a simple image search should have been an easy matter.”

It seems that the folks over at Giffords hate guns so much they can’t even bring themselves to do basic research on them.

It suggests that their opposition to guns is based not on well-thought-out facts and reason, but on an emotional reaction that prevents them from even looking up guns on Google.

Emotional reactions are not a good way to make public policy, and these gun control advocates should maybe take a step back from politics and figure out what is behind their hate for guns.

Whether they like it or not, the Second Amendment is a core constitutional right and it deserves to be protected.