By Rob Morse
Louisiana- (Ammoland.com)- Rich people ARE different. When public opinion is against them, they simply buy the public policy they want. These people will make the rules for us if gun owners don’t speak up.
A longer version of this article, originally appeared in The Blaze under the title, “Not your Momma’s Free Market” and is reprinted with their permission. By Jennifer Roback Morse.
I recently attended the Gun Rights Policy Conference with my husband. I learned that the gun rights movement is dealing with the same problem I’ve dealt with as a social conservative. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is the Sugar Daddy of the campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens. In social conservatism, we have Warren Buffett and George Soros and others to deal with. Maybe the pro-Second Amendment, pro-citizen self-defense movement should team up with the pro-life, pro-family movement.
I got into the conservative movement as a 19-year-old economics undergraduate at Ohio State University. My OSU professors were all recent graduates of the University of Chicago and were true believers in the free market. As a young free marketeer, I developed a sensibility that I should not automatically be suspicious of wealthy people, (even though I didn’t actually know any.) An honest person could do well in an economy like ours. As long as they came by their wealth honestly, I hold them no ill will. Income inequality doesn’t much bother me.
But now, I have come to see that some rich people are doing something I really do resent. They use their wealth to manipulate the political system. They want to change the rules for everyone.
I first noticed it in my work for social conservative issues. I saw people like Paul Singer passing out money to get “marriage equality” enacted in New York State. People like George Soros form organizations to manipulate public opinion and lobby the government. (See the his 2014 Tax Form, Part XV, Line 3, here.) Rob Reiner and his Hollywood friends formed an organization to overturn Proposition 8, which had been duly elected by the largest grass roots campaign in history. Warren Buffett has spent over a billion dollars promoting abortion, “comprehensive sexual education,” and “peer counseling,” (read: propaganda) for promoting the early sexualization of children. This same handful of rich people financed the research that overturned the Texas abortion clinic regulations, which were duly enacted by the duly elected representatives of the people.
You all in the gun rights movement face the same problem. Rich guys like Michael Bloomberg throw their money around to enact the laws that will bring their fantasy ideology into being.
The fantasy ideology of gun control is: “If we only had enough new gun laws, criminals would all obey those laws and firearm violence would disappear.”
This fantasy requires a lot of propaganda. “We will never run a news story in which an armed and trained citizen interrupts a crime. We will make a “documentary” that we edit to make supporters of citizen self-defense appear foolish. Those dopes in fly-over country will never notice.”
The fantasy ideology in my line of work is: “Kids don’t really need their own parents.” This fantasy also needs a lot of propaganda. “If we just “educate” everyone early enough and often enough, kids won’t miss their missing parents.”
Perhaps some of you agree with “marriage equality.” Maybe you agree with abortion on demand and sexually explicit sex education in the schools and highly unregulated abortion clinics. But do you really want to be manipulated by a handful of unelected, unaccountable wealthy people? I sure don’t.
Maybe we should talk.
Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D. is Founder and President of the Ruth Institute, a global non-profit organization, dedicated to creating a Christ-like solution to family breakdown. Visit at www.ruthinstitute.org or facebook.com/TheRuthInstitute/ To hear more from Dr. Morse, sign up for her e-newsletter here and receive a free gift. She is married to Rob Morse.
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Rob Morse: Rob writes about gun rights at Ammoland, at Clash Daily and on his SlowFacts blog. He hosts the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast and co-hosts the Polite Society Podcast. Rob is an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.
Hey Larry, buy the book ” The Founder’s Second Amendment”, and read it carefully. Every colonial state knew it was an “individual right”, and demanded it be recognized in a ” Bill of Rights” to the newly adopted Constitution. The A.Holes in power now are just playing the average American as an ignorant fool, who doesn’t know, or never knew, that the Founders did all the leg-work for us. And they knew BHO, Bloomingshit, Soreass, and HRC, would be comin’ round soon enough. A ” ballsy group” I’d say!
Not one of our politicians has had the gonads to rewrite the 2nd Amendment to make sure it’s an individual right. Sure, it has to go through a process with the states, etc, but none will even start it going.
Two sets of laws
1) for the rich, they get what they want
2) for common people , can’t get rich , stuck,
with nothing to show for hard work .
Foreign investment in America proves they’re selling the Country too!
The billionaires couldn’t buy our politicians if they were not for sale. When the people learn that their Congressmen is on the take, they reelect him anyway. The people’s apathy will be our destruction.