No One Wants to Take Our Guns!

By Ammoland

By Jeff Knox

Buckeye, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- If you follow the rights issue at all, you have undoubtedly seen claims from members of the anti-rights crowd insisting that “No one wants to take your guns!”

We’ve heard this for years – decades – as enemies of liberty have leveled a ceaseless barrage of attacks on our rights.

The drum-beat got particularly loud during Obama’s first presidential election, and has continued to gain volume and intensity since then.

Included in the meme is the idea that gun owners are paranoid, being misled by the “gun lobby,” usually misidentified as the NRA. The “gun lobby” is accused of irrational fearmongering, seeing threats where none exist, and fighting against “reasonable, common-sense, gun violence prevention efforts,” all for the sake of protecting the outrageous profits of the massive firearms industry.

I’ve recently read several pieces from very different sources all repeating the exact same talking-points, loudly proclaiming this “truth,” and berating “gun huggers,” “ammosexuals,” and good old-fashioned “gun nuts” for intransigence in the face of the prohibitionists’ self-declared non-threat. The language they use is much too similar to be coincidence. They are clearly working from the same playbook, but some can’t …read more

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