This stream of hate being fed to America by the left is becoming a steady diet. You loyal readers of Safer Streets know me by now: Every smear of our freedoms and the people who stand for freedom is another chance to inform the electorate. I don't waste much time informing the anti-gun crowd.
It is your standard multi-faceted smear this time by Josh Horwitz writing for the Huffington Post his screed against America: What do the second amendment rallies tell us about the gun rights movement? I want you to go to his page and read it for yourself. It is multi-faceted because it cites several highlights of the second amendment movement as if the liberty movement were wrong. I'll simply point out that what Horwitz cites is correct, his analysis and conclusion are wrong: he sees protest as hostile when it is officials and gun control who are hostile. He sees objection to abuses of due process as hate.
In any other country, you could say that Horwitz would be just another statist with an opinion, a loyal Quisling (if there is such a thing!) but in America, there cannot be two sides to liberty and our right of redress of grievances. That's due process. Castigating Americans for it -- as if there were two sides to liberty --- betrays a contempt for America herself. That would be his side of it. Our whole complaint with leftist officials is that they go outside of due process while the gun owners have always operated within it, summoning it, depending on it. In Horwitz's world, the kind of world he would make for himself as much as us, he himself would have no right of dissent. The state would not allow it. Brilliant, huh?
Horwitz has all the quotes right. He has the names right. Read his article, anyway.
What Horwitz cannot hide is that this is due process in action, and he doesn't like it. Due process often starts with complaint or protest or communicating with officials in a public forum which, itself, reaches the electorate as well as the officials for whom it is pronounced. It keeps it open to the public. What Horwitz fails to mention would mean the demise of his entire mission, and that is that gun control operates outside of due process; more specifically, gun control abuses due process. Protesting gun control, then, is not hostile; it is gun control that is hostile in its very inception. Read his article.
The answer is in educating and invigorating the electorate, not the anti-gun crowd.
What is equally important for America to know is that the anti-gun movement does not need to be instructed on what guns are all about. This is the scary part: the anti-gun left already fully understands the purpose of the second amendment. This is why they attack the second amendment and go wildly outside of due process to do it. It's because they do understand what it is all about. They understand it very well.
What the second amendment rallies tell us, I should point out, reveals more about the left than they might imagine. It certainly is not from ignorance of the second amendment that they carp, it is utterly against what it means to statists: defeat.
All anti-gun activists worldwide understand the purpose of the second amendment very, very well.
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There will always be spin doctors like Horwitz who will twist facts/logic/and truth to win their point if they can. They pander to weak people's fears. The government knows that if it allows the workers to have a taste of a better life they can get them addicted and then enslave them. But enslavement cannot come about as long as the slaves have the weapons to protect themselves. Then people like Horwitz in my personal opinion enter to convince the weaker ones they can have more by surrendering their weapons. People start trading in freedoms for creature comforts and soon there are no more freedoms. The first and most critical of the freedoms we are surrendering is the second amendment because without it to defend the other freedoms/rights we have no freedoms/rights. Not everyone needs to carry a gun but EVERYONE has to protect our right to do so if the individual need arises and the only person who is qualified to make that decision is the individual themselves.
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