Posted July 4, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Steve Helber, File

For better or worse, the pro-gun position tends to be more of a right-wing position. When it comes to guns, gun rights, and gun control, you can predict someone’s position in a broad sense based on their party affiliation with a fair degree of accuracy. If you see Republican, you can assume he or she is relatively pro-gun and the opposite if they’re a Democrat.

However, over at Vox, an extreme-left activist is quite upset over the right and our supposed monopoly on guns and gun rights, and he’s bound and determined to change that.

The problem? He doesn’t understand quite how the politics works. What follows will be a partial fisk, where I address some of these points step by step.

This will be fairly long. I just wanted to warn you.

Right-wingers have held an unearned monopoly on gun culture for too long.

That’s the first damn sentence. You know this is going to be good.

First, though, he’s not wrong. We do hold a monopoly on gun culture, but it’s not because of anything we did. If I had my way, gun rights would be a bipartisan issue. However, the Left tends to want to restrict gun …Read the Rest

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