All the critics need to do to prove this wrong is to come up with numbers that credibly refute those given. [More]
You can’t rebut contentions by avoiding them. It’s past time this argument was more widely noticed in the “pro-gun community.”
Gun Influencers Denying Immigration Impact on Right to Arms Ignore Truths They Can’t Refute
“…says stuff on X like “You Nazis spent decades whining about federalism, only to throw it out once you got a crazy enough Führer in office”…”
If Goodman is so incensed as to invoke Nazis over a video featuring the Jewish Stephen Miller, then surely he’ll be outraged by the land whose flag he has in his twitter username employing people who wrote verses endorsing “Hitler for a thousand years!”
https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/hindu-nazi-satanism
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During the California gunpocalypse of 2016, many firearm owners within that state said, paraphrased, that they will sit it out. This meant they will not sign to any of the initiative petitions. Further, if the initiatives fail, they will simply move on to other ‘hobbies’.
No talk about history, constitutional gaurantees, or means of defense would convince them otherwise. In a state of ~6 million gun owners, none of the initiatives gained the necessary number of signatures (~530,000)
Notable of the reasons given, were that ‘my family’ … (from Korea, China, Mexico, and other foreign countries) disliked firearms as the culture from which they came severely restricted or prohibited private ownership and use of firearms. Several people did admit specifically that elders in their family would strongly disapprove, that family members, including parents, would disassociate in every way if it became known to family that one did own, and supported owning, firearms.
Which means those owners were still culturally tied to their country of origin. Many of such folks admitted they were 3rd generation in America.
Most of the above from comments on the old CalGuns forum. However, included are personal conversations between myself and such person.
I reckon I had over fifty such conversations in person with different gun owners. And countless public and private conversations via that web forum. Further, at two separate gatherings for Appleseed Project, several shooters said they attended only for the Boy Scout merit badge, that that was the extent of their interest.
I directly know of one man, 2nd gen American from Taiwan, who was formally ‘disowned’ by his parents. Though he was twenty-eight at the time, this had a deep effect on him. It was nearly ten years later that he and family reunited. During that intervening time, he was refused to visit or even call his parents. His sister was sternly rebuked for having taken a letter from him. Her university funding was in jeopardy for that.