{"id":78750,"date":"2022-03-15T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78750"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:28:51","slug":"78750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78750","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

An Opportunity Second Amendment Supporters Must Not Waste<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for Second Amendment supporters to channel Rahm Emanuel for a moment. In fact, there is a chance to hoist the one-time Obama Chief of Staff, who urged people to \u201cnever let a crisis go to waste,\u201d on his own petard.<\/p>\n

Right now, if you believe\u00a0polling by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Second Amendment supporters could deliver a metaphorical death blow to the hopes of anti-Second Amendment extremists over the next few years. However, it will take a lot of hard work to make that happen, and time may not be entirely on our side.<\/p>\n

About 20 years ago, the political home of anti-Second Amendment extremism made a bet. They thought that there was a demographic doomsday coming for their opposition. However, that bet has not quite worked out for them over the long haul. Yes, Obama did win in a landslide in 2008, and won re-election solidly in 2012 (with an assist from the IRS targeting the Tea Party), but in the decade since 2012\u2026 how have things worked out?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve\u00a0discussed<\/a>\u00a0some of the signs that their bet on demographics isn\u2019t working out the way they hoped. The\u00a0lessons<\/a>\u00a0from last year\u2019s Virginia gubernatorial election should give Second Amendment supporters and pro-Second Amendment organizations a blueprint for how to carry out the outreach.<\/p>\n

This outreach is important. As things stand right now, for many of those who voted Youngkin in 2021 (and those of a similar mind across the country), support for the Second Amendment became a \u201cnon-dealbreaker\u201d in the face of the current situation. While that might be sufficient for the short-term, would it not be better to make support for the Second Amendment a positive among those voters who currently consider it a \u201cnon-dealbreaker\u201d in the face of a crisis?<\/p>\n

Blowing the opportunity that\u00a0Gun Culture 2.0<\/a>\u00a0is presenting would be to repeat the very mistake that those in charge of the political home of anti-Second Amendment extremism made. We know that anti-Second Amendment extremist organizations like the\u00a0Brady Campaign<\/a>\u00a0have had regrettable levels of success in dividing gun owners, often by hijacking the concept of \u201cresponsible\u201d gun ownership.\u00a0Reclaiming<\/a>\u00a0that term from anti-Second Amendment extremists is crucial to defeating their \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

Most important, though is to be willing to reach out to the new gun owners. Like any beginner in a new sport, they will need instruction and help from those who have more experience. The process of welcoming them should start from the moment they are at their first visit to an FFL and it should have no endpoint.<\/p>\n

There are big tasks up ahead. Second Amendment supporters have to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local levels via the ballot box this November and in 2024. The process starts today by not wasting the opportunity that\u00a0Biden\u2019s blunders<\/a>\u00a0are giving us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Opportunity Second Amendment Supporters Must Not Waste It\u2019s time for Second Amendment supporters to channel Rahm Emanuel for a moment. In fact, there is a chance to hoist the one-time Obama Chief of Staff, who urged people to \u201cnever let a crisis go to waste,\u201d on his own petard. Right now, if you believe\u00a0polling … 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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750","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=78750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78751,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions\/78751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}