Anti-Gunners Favorite Lie: Don’t Worry, We’re Not Going to Take Away Your Guns

Anti-Gunners Favorite Lie: Don't Worry, We're Not Going to Take Away Your Guns
Anti-Gunners Favorite Lie: Don’t Worry, We’re Not Going to Take Away Your Guns

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The anti-gun crowd will use several different strategies to change the narrative around guns, and encourage as many people as possible to join them in spreading irrational gun fear. Sometimes, bold terms are used to influence unsuspecting victims. We’ve all heard the scary terms, Assault-Weapon, Weapons of War, High-Capacity, Wild West, and the big daddy term “Gun Violence.” We know there’s no such thing as “gun violence,” only human violence, but the anti-gun crowd doesn’t want to talk about “human violence” because they know that it would reflect poorly on the policies they support.

Human violence in America is primarily a result of bad Government policies such as bail reform, early prisoner release, gang-related violence, sanctuary cities, open borders, welfare dependency, and so on. All things, the gun-grabbers would prefer you didn’t think about. Instead, it’s much better for them to attach all human violence to guns. That way, the scrutiny, and blame can be placed on the one thing they would most like to see removed from society. Guns. Focusing on guns keeps the attention off their own failures such as New York Appointed Democrat Governor Hochul’s release of 191 Rikers detainees under the guise of “health and safety risks to the inmates.”

In order to keep the façade of “gun violence” alive, bold terms and accusations must be used, but the most insidious psychological tricks are often those which go unnoticed. What are some of the subtle ways in which the anti-gunners influence the conversation? Have you ever heard them say, “don’t worry, we’re not going to take away your guns” in conversation? There are a couple of assumptions within this statement that the gun-grabbers hope will be influential.

The first part of the statement, “don’t worry,” is used to accomplish the exact opposite of what it appears to intend. When you hear someone say “don’t worry,” what is the first thing you do? Exactly! You worry. It’s like saying, “don’t think of a pink elephant.” you can’t help but envision a pink elephant because your brain is always in problem-solving mode. The statement, “don’t worry, we’re not going to take away your guns,” is used to evoke an instant, fearful reaction and put gun owners in a defensive position. What better mindset would you want your opponent to be in during a debate? The answer is, a fearful, reactive one. “Don’t worry” does it every time.

There’s also another assumption within that statement that often goes unnoticed. Take one more look at the statement. “Don’t worry, we’re not going to take away your guns.” The assumption is that they “can” take away your guns. The idea behind this part of the statement is to convince you with this subtle implication that the gun-grabbers have leverage over your Second Amendment and can take away your guns whenever they want. But don’t worry, they’re not going to. So, you’re safe. For now. How nice of them. When the anti-gun crowd uses this type of rhetoric, they are trying to gain psychological leverage over gun owners. They are trying to put gun-owners in a defensive and subservient position psychologically. Of course, they’ll pretend that they’re trying to put you at ease but what they’re really saying is, “you should be very scared because we are able to take away your guns and we have every intention of doing so.”

The truth is, they’re trying to scare you and they’re doing it because they can’t break through the 2nd Amendment wall and it frustrates the hell out of them.

When political opponents can’t win legally, changing societal perception is used. In this case, they know they can’t come to your house and personally take your guns but if they can make you fear the thought of it while perpetuating the notion that “they can,” they believe they can break your will. They believe, in the long game of gun control, this will serve them.

In response to, “don’t worry, we’re not going to take away your guns,” we might want to play their own game and remind them that, “we know you’re scared of guns, but don’t worry, we’re not going to make you carry one.” The more we know about how the anti-gun crowd thinks, the better equipped we will be in shutting them down or helping them understand just how badly they’ve been misled.

The 2nd Amendment is not a privilege. It’s your right.


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Dan Wos is a nationally recognized 2nd Amendment advocate and Author of the “GOOD GUN BAD GUY” series. He speaks at events, is a contributing writer for many publications, and can be found on radio stations across the country. Dan has been a guest on the Sean Hannity Show, NRATV, and several others. Speaking on behalf of gun-rights, Dan exposes the strategies of the anti-gun crowd and explains their mission to disarm law-abiding American gun-owners.

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JSNMGC

Politicians and the media are correct – they won’t take anyone’s firearms.

LEOs have taken them, do take them, and will take them.

You can ignore the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the room, but he’s still there.

Russn8r

Downvoters: “We just follow orders.”

JSNMGC

What is sad, is that as more and more gun laws are passed and enforcers continue to enforce those laws, some posters here (who consider themselves “conservatives”) will continue to make disparaging comments about people with “gun charges against” them and applaud the enforcers who risked their lives to enforce those laws. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny.

To those who hold those views and live in “blue” states and are talking about leaving those states, please do not move to western mountain states. Thank you.

swmft

The fun thing is they applaud police stealing, they call it civil forfeiture, even fbi is involved theft is theft, put me on a jury of someone shooting a leo for stealing and I will make sure they walk and get reimbursed, title 18 242 deprivation of rights under color of law they want to ignore 4th,5th and 14th as well as second

gregs

leo’s won’t take them either. i will never give up my right to protect myself with whatever i can get my hands on whether it be a firearm, knife, cast iron pan, baseball bat, rock or pointy stick. that 800 pound gorilla better have on some body armor.

JSNMGC

When you kill one enforcer, 12 more will come (with body armor and armored vehicles you bought for them). When you kill a couple of them, 50 more will come. They will take your firearms. I believe a better approach is to change the gun control laws, create state laws that prohibit state/county/city/town enforcers from cooperating with the enforcement of federal laws, and ostracize enforcers who enforce unconstitutional laws. Enforcers should understand the support they receive from their community is conditional. I have run into a number of people who refuse to help in activism and they frequently mutter something… Read more »

JSNMGC

Happy New Year, musicman44mag.

LE attracts different kinds of people – some of them are wild-eyed, power hungry tyrants who get off on imposing their perceived authority on others. Many other enforcers protect those people – actively (by lying, tampering with evidence, etc.) and passively by not condemning LE abuses on the internet.

They don’t like people pointing out examples of abusive behavior.

The downvotes are from tyrants and tyrant-protectors who desparately want to be perceived as heroes when, in fact, they are the tyrants and/or the tools of tyrants.

Montana454Casull

No they won’t unless I allow them too ! MOLON LABE. come try and it won’t end well for everyone involved . Taking a gun from a corpse is different than a live person handing it over . How many will die in the process is the key question here ?

swmft

that is why a machine gun is useful, one against many, and a 50 bmg gives a nice door stop

Finnky

Ok. I have to admit I’ve been wrong many times on this… I do need a machine gun, or even a few. Start with a 50bmg and enough to keep it fed. Even if I built my own firearm (and stamped it 1960 to keep it ‘legal’) – I’d go broke buying a stash of ammo, even if I never practiced with it! Maybe I should limit my idea of a stash to only a few k. Given that shooting would gather considerable attention, am thinking I’d need to build remote system for the 50. Being physically separated would allow… Read more »

Henry Bowman

Communists say they wont, until they do.
I’ve never met a commie or a RINO that could be trusted.

GomeznSA

Henry – yep – what they say they won’t ever do is exactly what they really ARE doing.Sort of like democRATs…………………..
Oh and rino does not deserve allcaps as that denotes respect which NONE of them do.

KDad

What the “gun-grabbers” won’t talk about, is who is committing most of the crime in America. Blacks make up about 12.1% of our population but commit about 85% of the crime. Look at the videos of the smash & grab thefts on the east and west coasts. You don’t see any whites in those videos. Look at the videos of the groups shoplifting clothing and cosmetics from stores. No whites there either! Videos of thefts from grocery stores virtually always show that the thief is black. Drive-by shootings are virtually always committed by blacks, usually gang members. When police officers… Read more »

Arizona

They know their policies are going to cause more crime, violence, death and chaos. They want that! Then they can sweep in with a “cure” to assure their power and keep them relevant: total gun control. They want the public scared and begging for a fix to end all the rampant crime.

swmft

you mean the old people who have machine guns and dont use smart phones because they can be tracked within feet . my phone drops calls when i turn left or right . no gps chip when everything switches to 5 g I have a box that the phone will be in only out when i am using it , no tracking bs milling machine and lathe cnc all the things they dont teach now make whatever you need

swmft

blam

Wild Bill

check 360 … change mags … relocate …

Capn Dad

They can only take what you give them. And the only power people have over you is the power you give them.

gregs

statement by anti’s, “don’t worry, we’re not going to take away your guns”.
answer, “damn right you’re not!”

swmft

im willing to give them my slugs ,or api let them come up my driveway crows need to be fed

Arizona

Correct, and the socialists and communists of the democrat party will keep violating the Constitution and our rights UNTIL THEY ARE STOPPED.

The Left will not stop until we stop them. No one else is coming to save you.

Cooter

I like my guns like the left likes their voters undocumented… Let’s go Brandon

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Arizona

Guns? What guns? All I have are high speed wireless personal peacekeeping devices…defenders of freedom, life and property. It would be anti-science to oppose them. And since they are black nitride it would be racist to oppose them. And they self-identify as non-gendered lesbians, so it would be bigoted to oppose them!

Arizona Don

Hillary’s plan to get the guns did not involve constitutionally attempting to change the second amendment but did involve packing the supreme court with like thinking marxist democrats and then change the meaning of the word militia to mean a government agency. That way no amendment is needed.  Thereby making every gun in citizens hands open to confiscation. If biden succeeds in packing the court he may attempt the same thing.  I know we all know what the dictionary definition is but if the supreme court changes it it is changed. Make no mistake about that! After all they are the pinnacle of the third… Read more »

Arizona

I respectfully disagree. All power comes from the People. If we withdraw our consent to be governed, the government has ZERO legal authority to tell us anything or to demand any action. When you claim SCOTUS is the final arbiter on all things Constitutional, I call BS. SCOTUS can claim the second only applies to militia, and We the People will say FSCOTUS, and keep our 400,000,000 firearms, and there ain’t nothing SCOTUS, dementia joe or anyone else can do about it.

Stag

Exactly! SCOTUS was never intended to be the arbiter of constitutionality. They gave themselves that power in Marbury v. Madison.

Wild Bill

“Very interesting” came from Laugh In not Hogan’s Heros.

Wild Bill

Anyone that even remembers Laugh In gets MEGA-credit, with me!!!

Considerthis

Sky King, Soupy Sales,Capt. Kangaroo, Sheena, Amos & Andy, Science Fiction Theater, and on and on. That little
round tube was black and white and turned itself off after “High Flight” , but the content made happier ,healthier kids.

swmft

time tunnel ,voyage to the bottom of the sea , or marlin perkins wild kingdom ,there was a lot of good forward looking stuff on star trek wherever you can imagine you can do now they make the kadasians wtf programs are mostly crap meant to dumb people down

Wild Bill

Wild Kingdom was the best. Five thumbs up, brother!!!!!

Wild Bill

What a great magazine. I only read the articles, though. I bet he would lock’er door, too!!!

Wild Bill

Hey, good news that recipe book, “Apple Cider Nuts and Honey” … your copy is now worth $10. 37 used and well thumbed!

Wild Bill

Yeah, now kids actually believe in John Wick.

Wild Bill

John Wick is a fictional character played by Keono Reeves. Very unrealistic.

swmft

petticoat junction ,rat patrol ,high chaparral and the line is say good night dick good night dick sure do miss goldie hawn in the hot pants and gogo boots

Wild Bill

I would have enjoyed talking to her.

Cruiser

A few don’t even know they are violating their oath. They just regeritate the words, without knowing or understanding what an oath means. At the begining of each session of Congress and Senate the Bill of Rights should be read aloud and members should sign an affidavit affirming that, they know and understand it. There are some in the Congress & Senate who won a popularity contest and nothing more.
They are totally unqaulified for the job.
Case in point; “Guam will Capsize and Tip Over into the ocean” Hank Johnson (D) Georgia.

Last edited 2 years ago by Cruiser
Boz

All true, however, ignorance of the law AND of the Constitution is no excuse.

Glypto Dropem

That question by the idiot Hank Johnson was posed to an admiral during a hearing, where he actually was concerned that if too many sailors were on one end of the island, Guam would flip over. I don’t know anyone older than a 1st grader that thinks islands float on the ocean.

https://youtu.be/xM1QtyZvn04

I don’t know who is more stupid… Hank Johnson or the idiots that put (and keep) him in office.

Last edited 2 years ago by Glypto Dropem
Arizona Don

I think I would get out of that state if it were me.

Wild Bill

Yeah brother, here, yesterday, at 1542 hours, promptly, the wind changed from the South to the Northwest. I was out of doors and I noticed the wind direction change and the temperature dropped about ten degrees in ten minutes. It was just as if someone flipped a Devine switch.
And it kept dropping. This morning there was a sprinkling of snow, flurries, and every horse tank and water bucket was frozen.

Wild Bill

Four degrees! Well hush my mouth. Glad that you got it going. I had a garden hose freeze.
I came in the house whining and complaining … so the wife made biscuits for me!!!
She graduated from Salina HS and went to UK.

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Wild Bill

Ooops, my mistake. I was in a hurry. K State.

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Wild Bill

Army brat and super trooper.

Wild Bill

I have one of those around here, some place. I also use a quick detach so that the water can run out of the hoses, and freeze somewhere other than in the hose.
Crap, holidays over and 75 days of winter ahead!

GomeznSA

The reality is that all they have to do is put enough restrictions on when where how us depolorables are ‘allowed’ to use our guns that far too many will simply comply. Want proof” How many folks say they will hide their guns for when they are ‘really’ needed.If you are burying them, you have already conceded to them.
NOTE – I am NOT in any way shape or fashion ‘suggesting’ that we should go out and start using them but that time may come……………….

Arizona

Fauxi can go perform unnatural acts upon himself and stick his head up his …..

FJB and F Fauxi. Don’t care what they say. They have no authority.

Wild Bill

They will find what ever you find in your house or buried near. I think mobile hiding is the key. Keep them moving.
I am going to put mine in the back of my covered pick up and drive them over to my neighbor’s and park them in the barn that she no longer uses. She can move then again if I call her. She can use a few extra bucks. And nothing to find at my house.

Wild Bill

My wife says that occasionally, but having your own property has advantages. You can have horses, multiple shooting ranges, fixed position defense … You know little things!

Henry Bowman

Exactly what Dan Crenshaw said. It took a libertarian girl from Ohio to troll him into admitting in a twitter thread that he lied about being pro-2A when he ran for office because he knew he couldn’t get elected otherwise.

Montana454Casull

Any politician who lies to gain office becomes ilegitiment at that point if elected and anything they say or do is irrelevant during thier false term .

swmft

should be subject to automatic recall

Buzz

case in point! the corrupt Career politican that is in the White House

GomeznSA

Montana – that pretty well eliminates almost all of the CONgress critters as well as most city county and state officials as well. There is a thing called malfeasance or misfeasance depending on what actions or inactions they take that SHOULD result in them being immediately removed for violating their oath of office. I’m not sure even most dog catcher remain true to their office for that matter.

Cruiser

You got that right.

Last edited 2 years ago by Cruiser
Henry Bowman

Agree, but that would also be 99% of elected officials, just on the federal level alone!

jim

The “progressive” philosophy is more subtle, insidious, & incremental than immediate confiscation. You can see examples of the philosophy in laws that have been implemented by like minded individuals at the state level where they don’t confiscate firearms or magazines, they just pass laws that say you can’t keep, sell, transfer, share, get them repaired, purchase ammunition, inherit, or shoot them. The Colorado magazine ban is a good example where the “owner” can keep them but not share or transfer them to anyone he is living with like his/her children, spouse, roommates, significant others, domestic partners, house guests, employees, or… Read more »