Why Gun People Don’t Trust Anti-Gun People
Writer Barry Snell explains why gun rights supporters do not trust gun control advocates.
I’ve come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. Before we even start the conversation, we’re the bad guys and we have to admit it. Without accepting that guns are bad and supplicating themselves to the anti-gunner, the pro-gunner can’t get a word in edgewise, and is quickly reduced to being called a murderer, or a low, immoral and horrible human being.
He then lays out the reasons why gun control advocates will never convince us to give up our rights.
Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because they keep saying they “respect the Second Amendment” and go on about how they respect the hunting traditions of America. We don’t trust you because you have to be a complete idiot to think the Second Amendment is about hunting. I wish people weren’t so stupid that I have to say this: The Second Amendment is about checking government tyranny. Period. End of story.
And goes on to list all the other reasons gun rights advocates and gun grabbers share nothing in common, making compromise impossible.
I’ve considered being willing to give up my Constitutional right to gun ownership if the Left would give up their imaginary “right” to abortion, but shredding the Constitution just makes tyranny more likely, and there is no guarantee that the Left would honor their side of the bargain after the 2nd Amendment was destroyed. So I’ll have my guns, and they’ll have the blood of innocents on their hands. At least I won’t have any trouble sleeping at night.
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