{"id":67491,"date":"2021-05-03T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67491"},"modified":"2021-05-03T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:28:59","slug":"67491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67491","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

If Anti-Gunners Want To Know Why We Cling To Them, They Should Ask<\/a><\/p>\n

Millions of Americans love their firearms. We like guns and that\u2019s not likely to change anytime soon. Nor should it. After all, these are the weapons with which we keep our freedom.<\/p>\n

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However, there are a ton of people who really don\u2019t like that. They don\u2019t want us with firearms at all. Others are fine with you owning a firearm, they just want to place so many restrictions on them so that they\u2019re impractical for anything but going to a gun club and popping off a few rounds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So what happens when those who don\u2019t like guns try to ponder why those who do like them \u201ccling\u201d to them? Well,\u00a0you get some hilariously bad takes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why are we so in love with our guns?<\/p>\n

Historically, this nation was built on violence, whether the initial settlers from England or the wagon loads of internal migrants who ventured westward seeking land and opportunity.\u00a0Creating a foothold on the east coast and then expansion to the west involved the violent subjugation of the Indigenous Peoples, as well as animals like Buffalo, because they stood in the way of that process. The perspective of subjugation at any cost, i.e. manifest destiny, still resides in our nation\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n

Combine that opinion of cultural superiority with Heston\u2019s interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution and the result is the \u2018until death do we part\u2019 attitude about gun ownership.\u00a0Why is it so relentless in its effort to protect itself?\u00a0Why is every piece of proposed gun control legislation met with an avalanche of criticism by those who own guns and\u00a0the politicians<\/a>\u00a0they support?<\/p>\n

Obviously, the gun lobby, which includes the\u00a0National Rifle Association<\/a>\u00a0and numerous gun manufacturers and vendors, is extremely vociferous and aggressive, stating that politicians who propose smart gun laws are \u2018soft on crime\u2019.\u00a0In addition, it uses news media outlets, particularly conservative ones, to raise fear that the government is attempting to take your guns away with these new laws. And, if that were to happen, you would be less safe from crime, completely unable to defend yourself and, worst of all, be vulnerable to an authoritarian government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I love it when they place all that on the \u201cgun lobby.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s because of the NRA and other pro-gun groups, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation which they couldn\u2019t bother to name, that you\u2019re concerned about gun control advocates trying to take away your right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

Of course, that could have nothing at all to do with these advocates\u2019 own words, now could it. My friend, science fiction author David Burkhead,\u00a0has been keeping a record<\/a>\u00a0of people of note saying they want all your guns. He\u2019s kept it fairly up to date, too.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t play a factor, now does it?<\/p>\n

Yet the author of this piece thinks he understands why we hold onto our guns? He feels he understands enough about all of us to tell his readers why we \u201ccling\u201d to our guns.<\/p>\n

Maybe he should have just asked.<\/p>\n

As noted, politicians and gun control advocates have expressly acknowledged their desire to disarm us all. Around us, violent crime is spiking, even if heavily gun-controlled states. We have a government that, frankly, few of us actually trust. With all that, you think the reason we\u2019re resistant to gun control is because the NRA tells us to be?<\/p>\n

To quote a prominent anti-gunner, \u201cCome on, man!\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve got ample reason to resist gun control. We\u2019ve got all those reasons and more to \u201ccling\u201d to our firearms, including that it\u2019s just plain fun to go shooting. But for some people, actually talking to us and finding out why we refuse to budge is just too damn hard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Anti-Gunners Want To Know Why We Cling To Them, They Should Ask Millions of Americans love their firearms. We like guns and that\u2019s not likely to change anytime soon. Nor should it. After all, these are the weapons with which we keep our freedom. However, there are a ton of people who really don\u2019t … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67492,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67491\/revisions\/67492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}