Op-Ed Pushes Race-Baiting Anti-Second Amendment Efforts

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Posted September 9, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Far too often, Americans have an idea in their heads of who their political opponents really are. For people on the right, they usually picture their typical progressive opponent as some college liberal who has never had to do any real work a day in their lives. For the left, they see conservatives as backward, uneducated hicks.

Unfortunately for both, there are enough people who fit the stereotype on both sides for them to stick.

The stereotyping continues when you get down to specific issues, but there it seems to apply less and less. Especially when anti-gunners try to stereotype pro-gun folks. Especially the idea that we’re all a bunch of racists.

What’s hilarious is when someone decides to propose an effort to capitalize on that supposed racism.

Gun control advocates keep trying to change laws by appealing to our leaders’ morality, but fear has been the greatest motivator for gun reform in America.

No matter what side of the issue you fall on, people on both sides are scared. Some people want fewer guns to promote safer communities. Some people want more guns to protect themselves from the unhinged.

But 50 years ago, there was a fear so deep and visceral that …Read the Rest

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