Missouri High School Principal Suspended Over Pro-Gun Tweet

By Tom Knighton

For a while, I’ve talked about the stigmatization of gun ownership in this country. It’s the idea that the anti-gunners work to make it not just illegal to own guns, but socially unpalatable. They want to make it so we can’t admit to owning guns outside of groups of fellow gun owners because it reminds non-owners that people with firearms are their neighbors, co-workers, pastors, doctors, lawyers, bankers, and so on. We’re everywhere, but if people know that and recognize that people they know and trust are gun people, they might not be so willing to support gun control.

It’s imperative for anti-gunners that they make it so socially unacceptable that we have to hide it.

Part of that effort is to punish people who acknowledge their support for the Second Amendment, and a case could be made that it has to start at the schools. That means punishing pro-gun teachers and principals for standing by their beliefs and opposing anti-gun voices. Stuff like what happened to a Missouri high school principal recently.

A Missouri school principal is on paid leave after replying to a tweet from a gun control activist.

The tweet was a reply to David Hogg, one of …Read the Rest

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