{"id":5660,"date":"2017-03-23T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/should-liberals-buy-guns\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:30:16","slug":"should-liberals-buy-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/should-liberals-buy-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Liberals Buy Guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might not be in their best interest. Buy guns and ammo and the accessories and you support those industries and the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association. The NRA, however, played a key role<\/a> in getting Trump elected.  The NRA takes decidedly anti-leftist stands on crime and the nanny-statism liberals hold dear.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This puts liberals in a delightful bind.  Delightful to us, that is. Fearing 'fascism,' they are now buying guns as numerous news stories have reported, but in so doing they shoot themselves in the foot, figuratively speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you liberals really want concealed-carry reciprocity<\/a>? Trump is for it and so is the NRA.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a parallel here with liberals' new-found love of federalism.  As William McGurn<\/a> has recently noted, <\/span><\/p>\n

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For both historical and philosophical reasons, federalism runs counter to the progressive instinct. Those on the left like government, and their preferred legislature is the Supreme Court<\/em>. (Brilliant! Emphasis added.) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fearing Trumpian 'fascism,' our liberal pals are now getting excited about states rights despite their long-standing mendacious insinuation that all talk of states rights can only mean a return to Jim Crow and the lynching of blacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 3\/24. A Friendly Warning to Liberals<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A gun is not a talisman<\/a>. Its mere presence won't protect you. To paraphrase Col. Jeff Cooper, owning a gun no more makes you armed than owning a guitar makes you a musician. You will need to get training. In the course of this training and numerous trips to the shooting range and gun stores for ammo, etc. you will find yourself associating whether you like it or not with rednecks, country folk, blue collar types, cops, ex-cops, military, ex-military, church-goers and other subspecies of the people Obama derisively referred to as "clingers" and Hillary as "deplorables."  <\/span><\/p>\n

The danger here is that you will learn that, in the main, these are decent people. Your liberal bigotry fueled by hate and ignorance will stand refuted by experience.  This may cause such painful cognitive dissonance that you may no longer be able to remain a bien-pensant<\/em> librul.<\/span><\/p>\n

You have been forewarned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: Guide for Liberals Suddenly Interested in Gun Ownership<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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It might not be in their best interest. Buy guns and ammo and the accessories and you support those industries and the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association. The NRA, however, played a key role in getting Trump elected.  The NRA takes decidedly anti-leftist stands on crime and the nanny-statism liberals hold dear.   … Continue reading “Should Liberals Buy Guns?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}