sig63
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Bottom line up front: new gun control initiatives are an infringement on the certain inalienable rights guaranteed--NOT "granted"--by the Second Amendment. If we frame it in different language, maybe the people pushing this from the left will understand us better.
We're all mad as hell about renewed threats to the things we care about, but if we want to have our voices heard then we need to speak "their" language. After a newspaper released names and addresses of a bunch of weapons permit holders in New York, I realized that this "meaningful conversation" we supposedly need to have following Sandy Hook is turning into a witch hunt. Read the Feinstein bill, and you know that we are all about to become criminals by the stroke of a pen. Media and interest groups are stoking fears by portraying us all as an uneducated fringe-mob of trigger-happy, psychopathic boogeymen driving around with big black guns and rocket launchers, bent on murdering schoolchildren. Does anyone else feel like they are being unfairly portrayed, stereotyped, and attacked?
Seriously...these are the same people who fight so hard for equality; who seek the most liberal interpretation of every other civil right; who never miss an opportunity to call something "unfair" no matter how ridiculous it may be. Yet they want to put a big red line through the Second Amendment? From a liberal policy perspective, that doesn't even make sense.
Bloomberg flat out called us crazy. Yeah, he is an idiot, but they are licking his hands like he is the messiah of a world without any need for guns. Like it or not, people are listening to him. Senator Feinstein herself carried a pistol "for protection" when she got the first ban through, and Bloomberg is a rich white guy protected by gun-toting bodyguards (paid for with New Yorkers' tax dollars, by the way). Yet they are attacking us and their agenda is worse than wrong, worse than unfair, and worse than ignorant: it is a VIOLATION of our CIVIL RIGHTS!
And gun control is racism. I am a gun owner, but I am not some angry white guy who runs around in a bedsheet burning crosses. When certain people can enjoy the safety of an armed guard while those in the most dangerous cities (those with "strong" gun control) cannot themselves have legal access to firearms (such as those who are commonly used by criminals) for self protection, that is discrimination. And most of the innocent people who most need that civil liberty are minorities. So how do they get away with equating the NRA to the KKK? The real discrimination and repression is on the part of gun control advocates.
I know, I am covering old ground here; we all know that the gun control argument does not make sense. But if we are going to reach the entrenched masses that are being brainwashed by the well-funded media bias, we need to patiently explain WHY it doesn't make sense. If we can do that using arguments that make sense to liberals (again, bear with me here...) then we have a better chance of actually having the "meaningful conversation" they keep talking about.
Just my two cents.
We're all mad as hell about renewed threats to the things we care about, but if we want to have our voices heard then we need to speak "their" language. After a newspaper released names and addresses of a bunch of weapons permit holders in New York, I realized that this "meaningful conversation" we supposedly need to have following Sandy Hook is turning into a witch hunt. Read the Feinstein bill, and you know that we are all about to become criminals by the stroke of a pen. Media and interest groups are stoking fears by portraying us all as an uneducated fringe-mob of trigger-happy, psychopathic boogeymen driving around with big black guns and rocket launchers, bent on murdering schoolchildren. Does anyone else feel like they are being unfairly portrayed, stereotyped, and attacked?
Seriously...these are the same people who fight so hard for equality; who seek the most liberal interpretation of every other civil right; who never miss an opportunity to call something "unfair" no matter how ridiculous it may be. Yet they want to put a big red line through the Second Amendment? From a liberal policy perspective, that doesn't even make sense.
Bloomberg flat out called us crazy. Yeah, he is an idiot, but they are licking his hands like he is the messiah of a world without any need for guns. Like it or not, people are listening to him. Senator Feinstein herself carried a pistol "for protection" when she got the first ban through, and Bloomberg is a rich white guy protected by gun-toting bodyguards (paid for with New Yorkers' tax dollars, by the way). Yet they are attacking us and their agenda is worse than wrong, worse than unfair, and worse than ignorant: it is a VIOLATION of our CIVIL RIGHTS!
And gun control is racism. I am a gun owner, but I am not some angry white guy who runs around in a bedsheet burning crosses. When certain people can enjoy the safety of an armed guard while those in the most dangerous cities (those with "strong" gun control) cannot themselves have legal access to firearms (such as those who are commonly used by criminals) for self protection, that is discrimination. And most of the innocent people who most need that civil liberty are minorities. So how do they get away with equating the NRA to the KKK? The real discrimination and repression is on the part of gun control advocates.
I know, I am covering old ground here; we all know that the gun control argument does not make sense. But if we are going to reach the entrenched masses that are being brainwashed by the well-funded media bias, we need to patiently explain WHY it doesn't make sense. If we can do that using arguments that make sense to liberals (again, bear with me here...) then we have a better chance of actually having the "meaningful conversation" they keep talking about.
Just my two cents.