Steve Chapman On “Gun Paranoia”

By Gregory Smith

SellingTheSecondAmendment.com

It’s laughable when a former member of the NRA lectures us on guns as Steve Chapman did with Gun Paranoia in the Age of Trump.

As a gun owner, recreational shooter, former NRA member and longtime advocate of Second Amendment rights, I like to see cogent criticism of gun control proposals and anti-gun propaganda. But under President Barack Obama, the NRA has occupied itself sowing groundless panic and fighting imaginary villains.

Obama made it plain in his first presidential campaign that gun control was not a hill he was willing to die on. He assured gun owners, “I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”

The NRA and smart gun owners judge politicians on what they do, not what they say.

He did sign bills allowing people to carry concealed handguns in national parks and check guns on Amtrak, expanding the gun rights of troops on U.S. military bases, and preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from banning lead ammunition. His “anti-gun” proposals amount to ending the manufacture and sale (though not possession) of “assault” weapons, …Read the Rest

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