“A growing number of American civilians have an unhealthy obsession with “tactical culture” and rifles like the AR-15. It’s a fringe movement among the 81 million American gun owners, but it is one of several alarming trends that have coincided with the increase in political violence in this country, along with the spread of far-right extremist groups, an explosion of anti-government sentiment and the embrace of deranged conspiracy theories by many Republican politicians. Understanding how these currents feed one another is crucial to understanding and reversing political violence and right-wing extremism.”
“A growing number of American civilians have an unhealthy obsession with “socialism” and media outlets like the New York Times. It’s a fringe movement among the millions American leftists, but it is one of several alarming trends that have coincided with the increase in political violence in this country, along with the spread of far-left extremist groups, an explosion of anti-American sentiment and the embrace of deranged conspiracy theories by many Deomcratic politicians. Understanding how these currents feed one another is crucial to understanding and reversing political violence and left-wing extremism.”
It says it’s a fringe movement among the 81 million gun owners. The left and the media are in it for the long game. There already existed a split among many gun owners and the AR crowd. They will continue to drive that wedge as long as it takes. It’s worth following Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to see what we’re up against. The comment sections are replete with gun owners that think 10 rounds is just fine, a real concealed carry guy only needs one shot with a revolver and why do AR guys need 30 rounds to kill a buck. I bet that less than 10% of those 81 million gun owners give two shits about the 2nd Amendment. By definition that is the fringe, and it’s all of us that take concealed carry, self defense and AR’s seriously. We are the enemy.
I’m calling BS and saying that many of those are plants and frauds. From my experience and observation, fudds have largely been run out of the gun community. Go into any gun store these days and talk about banning “assault weapons”, and it’ll be like the scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson goes into the tavern and says “God save King George!” Even at rod and gun clubs, which are normally the bastion of fudds, most guys are fiercely against bans on ARs, even if they don’t care for ARs themselves. This has just been my observation, and I live in a blue state! Even most liberal gun owners I know are opposed to gun bans.
Also, the vast majority of gun owners who are reading NYT and other leftist media are going to be from the small faction of leftist fudds, so of course they’re going to be over represented in the comments sections. I don’t think the gun community is at all “split” at this point. 10-15 years ago? Maybe. But now, fudds are a small and shrinking faction from what I’ve observed. We’re not the fringe; we’re the mainstream of gun owners. The gun ban faction is the fringe.
They aren’t plants and frauds. They walk among us and always have in the gun community.
I’ve basically left my local gun range due to the fact that there are plenty of people there that have no clue what “shall not infringe” means. I have been horribly disappointed the last two years. I was encouraged recently when a borough (our version of a county) referendum was passed banning any decisions on regulating gun ranges be left to a popular vote. This removed the power of the borough planning commission from regulating gun ranges. That is a good thing. Strangely enough, gun ranges were constantly stopped at every turn, regardless of how rural they were, by the NIMBY fudds that wear pro-2nd shirts but don’t walk the walk. We’ll see if that changes.
I was also encouraged with a visit to rural Maryland in November. I found quite a few gun guys there that blatantly waved the middle finger to Maryland gun laws. It did my heart good.
Also on the flip side, getting constitutional carry has made huge strides in the last decade. But, I still am wary of those willing to stab us in the back when it becomes convenient.
Toxic gun culture is on the left, not the right. And their no-holds-barred push to take our guns has just given us that Spartan resolve to resist- and then you end up with Bruen. Now, the left laments that we don’t have a registration system or a Swiss type system… But now isn’t the time. Maybe 15 years ago we could have come to some kind of baby NFA by restricting people and not guns. But the left didn’t want that, they wanted to go full-retard and actually come for guns, you can see that in BETO and now Biden. They still haven’t realized that the came is up after Bruen- which worries me because I think that they are just going to continue on with their plan. Remember, their battle cry is “Democracy”, not ‘Freedom’. ORegon 114 is a great example of that - and frankly even in OR it barely passed. Democracy at odds with our rights.
So the left’s extreme push on guns has lead to their nightmare scenario, that they are screaming irrationally against.
So they double down on dumb and insult the people with the whip hand with crap like this. 20th century gun control is DEAD. They will have to try to grab control with some other premise. ‘Safety’ and ‘for the children’ isn’t going to work anymore. SCOTUS and Bruen have made that clear. And if they try to use their shenanigans to get around it- pack the court or something else to usurp the reality- and it just shows what they are really up to.
You didn’t specify so I have to guess. Is the 6% black folks? Because if so they are almost 14% of the population, Asians are 6%. Hispanics outnumber them at 19%.
Would be hard to qualify gun violence since it can be related to many crimes, but the only number you have that is accurate is murder numbers but white people aren’t far behind.
Black offenders represent 51% of murder / manslaughter and whites are 45%. Under 18 the numbers are 50% and 47%.
6% because males commit the violent crimes and murders. Probably closer to 7% of the U.S. population are black males, but that assumes a 50/50 gender split.
Harpoon said murders and gun violence, not crime. Homicides are split so evenly between white and black male offenders its scary.
It depends on final demographics what part of the US population are black males but about 49% of murders are committed by white males and 49% by black males.
I bet there is as much correlation, regardless of race, if your mom’s a whore and your daddy is long gone. I haven’t found any current studies, but in 1993 kids that never knew their father had the highest incarceration rates; kids that lived in father only homes had no statistical difference in incarceration rates from kids with two parent homes. You can take away guns, but we have a crime problem related to the destruction of the family unit.
Nice substitutions of words, and spot on. They are soooo hypocritical. The “Summer of Love” (2020) celebrating the life of St. George Floyd totally escapes their memory it appears. Shocked I tell ya…
That hypocrisy and smugness is exactly why we need to NEVER give up our RKBA.
Want to see them (and the Fudds) recoil in horror? Explain the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment and how it isn’t about hunting or even self-defense (which of course is indeed a nice side benefit). When you point out what it’s really meant for you become some conspiracy nutjob, a kook.