United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- In the wake of a tragic shooting like the one in Uvalde, Texas, one thing is certain to come” The hateful rhetoric from anti-Second Amendment extremists. It’s been the same old, predictably vicious lie that has come since Columbine (or sooner): Because Second Amendment supporters exercise our First Amendment rights to protect the right to keep and bear arms, we are now child-killing domestic terrorists (or worse).
The owner of the company who made the firearm the shooter used to commit the horrific deeds at Robb Elementary School had been labeled an enabler of the murder of children on social media over ads the company ran. That’s a lie, too.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, of course. It could take a thousand columns to outline all those lies. But Second Amendment supporters need to take the level of rhetoric seriously.
Part of it is simply holding anti-Second Amendment extremists to their own standard. After all, some claimed that Sarah Palin incited Tucson with no more evidence than a symbol laid out on a congressional district in the 2010 midterm elections. That particular blood libel still persists in some quarters.
Crickets made more noise than those same people when someone who intended to carry out a mass shooting at a socially conservative think tank admitted in court that he used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to select his target. But the SPLC never faced any heat for that, certainly nothing near what Palin endured.
And don’t let yourself be gaslit by the likes of Nicolle Wallace, either. The idea that anti-second amendment extremists want to take away guns is not a “frothy delusion” when we actually have people extolling the injustices that England, Australia, and New Zealand inflicted on gun owners for crimes and acts of madness they did not commit.
But at the same time, this rhetoric needs to be taken seriously. These days, we have no idea what sort of permission slip is being signed in someone’s mind because of the words coming from a talking head, a Hollywood celebrity, or even from the White House itself.
Will it be a bank or credit card company CEO deciding to financially deplatform gun-rights groups, gun manufacturers, or FFLs? Will it be an employer who decides to fire someone because they are a member of the NRA? Or could it be something worse? This is a question that is out there these days.
Second Amendment supporters have a very tough row to hoe in beating back attacks on our freedoms. But we should also remember those who smeared us – and protect ourselves by defeating anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local level via the ballot box.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
The only person who is guilty of murder the shooter next in line was those that fail to protect those children who waited outside, The next in line are the democrats who are using this event and every new event to disarm Americans. There language of hate racism and calls for violence from their party members are responsible for the carnage in there sancuntary run cities. This hate is now spilling over into every small town in America as the democratic party and the Biden administration continue the dismantling of the United States at the pleasure of the communist party… Read more »
Contact your lawmakers? We’ll not in CA. They’re responsible for some of this mess. These elected tyrants will never be held accountable for their incompetence. How do they protect society from evil? They can’t. Their answer is to always infringe on the law-abiding by piling on more gun legislation on top of existing ones. I’ve tried contacting my legislation, where shall I begin? Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Harris, Becerra, Newsom, well you get the picture.
Jiao Xiden says there is no right to self-defense, your fundamental Rights aren’t absolute (in other words, God didn’t give you your rights, even though God is absolute).
They’re talking about taking away all the guns you like because they’re feeling froggy and they can’t have their one-world totalitarian empire without first disarming everyone… We stand in their way!
And now, a word from 3% founder, Mike Vanderboegh:
I’m not a racist but if you want a Blueprint of what going on in this country and how it’s going to get worse, read “The Turner Diaries” by Dr William Pierce. It was written in the 1970s but it’s extremely prophetic!
Bidens and company are looking for the same results Canada is no longer a free country now socialist marxist run government.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that his government is introducing legislation to “implement national freeze on handgun ownership” throughout the country.
First they have to come and get your weapons that is not how this will work. That is a battle that the democrats do not want on their resume. It will be socialist campaign like the one used in Australia and Europe and other countries that their politicians became gun grabbers. Remember the United Nations is now involved Biden has yet make the same mistake Obama did by announcing that he has sent the arms treaty back to the United Nations signed which Trump took back. This war on law abiding americans by the democrats is what they want and… Read more »
Get to the root of the problem. The tap root of the problem goes back over fifty years and was germinated when the Progressive New Left declared war on the American Republic. Everything flows from that point when old ditto machines bombed American campuses with copies of the Prairie Fire Manifesto and other copied and pasted tropes from the older American Communist Party days. They blended that poison with progressive ideas like eugenics and master planned economies and societies to create a toxic mix of unGodly authoritarianism. This is why we suffer from the many poxes and plagues of contemporary… Read more »