A Rebuttal to Cam Edwards’ Article ‘Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea’ [More]
By disparaging thoughts on what a “pathway to citizenship” means for future “gun votes,” widely followed “gun rights influencers” are discouraging even discussing the issue.
With respect to legal immigration, I find it astounding how far to one side the Overton Window is. There is a very commonly held, and deeply seated assumption among even traditionalist Americans that legal immigration is an unalloyed good thing for all time. Neverending legal immigration is implicitly, unconsciously taken to be what *defines* the United States. This is to the point that many of them are either baffled by, or reject out of hand, contrary ideas, such as the observation that immigrants may bring values incompatible with our culture, or that perhaps we have more than enough people already. Whether and to what extent to have legal immigration is just a policy, like how high marginal tax rates should be, or if a new highway should be built. But ongoing immigration to the U.S. is taken as almost a first principle, or a law of nature, or a spiritual imperative.
Thus, decades of indoctrination, and syrupy Ellis Island sentimentalism, have conditioned millions of our fellow Americans to accept and not question, or even to think about, alternative immigration policies.
The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States reads, in part:
“We the People of the United States, … , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, … ”
to OURSELVES and OUR posterity.
The Founders were very particular about how they phrased things. If they wanted the new country they were inventing from scratch to be the last refuge of the world, they would have said so somewhere. But they never did!
Reminds me that Peter Yarrow of “Peter, Paul, and Mary” once stepped to the microphone and said something to the effect of: “This is a song about growing up and the loss of innocence. If I ever write a song about smoking pot, I’ll tell you!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon
For those readers too young to catch the reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15pxWUXvLY&list=RDz15pxWUXvLY&start_radio=1
And Yarrow knew a thing or two about loss of innocence:
I’m sure Col. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington would have a few salty comments in agreement with yours. He was an acclaimed hero and self acknowledged bum. But he stepped up to the plate and owned both. Too bad we have so many Swalwells and Yarrows and so few Boyingtons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6lFWmXV9M&t=5s
Is it just me or is there no link to the article? I’m not even sure what gun blog to find it at.
No, it’s not you. I screwed up on the posting somehow. I’m going to repost this for today’s date to try and recapture some views.