A friend on FB posted this in a thread on gun control, an idea I oppose: "Bullshit Jeff! Too many fucking guns. period! But keep supporting the NRA and Trump!"
My response:
Bullshit, you say. OK, so help me understand liberal logic here, because I must be too stupid to see the apparent brilliance of it.
The progressive agenda has recently been fully revealed -- they want to abolish 2A altogether, full stop. So then what? The good guys (you know, honest, law-abiding Americans who commit no armed felonies and aren't naturally inclined to run the risk of being found guilty of a felony for possessing a gun) will voluntarily hand their weapons over to authorities (who will be armed)... but the bad guys (who are already felons and could give a shit about the law), or those who have a gun and plan to commit a felony (or felonies) using it, will no doubt hang onto them, burying them in a pipe in the woods somewhere if they have to.
So we disarm the good guys by force of law, prosecute them for a victimless crime if they object to being disarmed, and eventually make it impossible for them to protect themselves with commensurate force in a confrontation with a bad guy. All the while the bad guys are given the green light -- they will accept the risk of possessing firearms (because they're bad guys, remember), and will be emboldened to commit even more crime, since they know the good guys (having been sufficiently disarmed) can no longer put up a defense when it counts.... right there and then in the confrontation. When seconds matter, a cop is only minutes away, right?
The US should become, according to liberal logic, one huge gun-free zone, where the only armed folks will be a massively more powerful police state (since law enforcement will be taking on absolute full responsibility for defending the public), and the bad guys. The rest of us good guys will have to sit in between these two armies and wonder when the next hammer falls.
And of course government law enforcement agencies will promise to be there to protect us, even though they clearly can do no such thing even now (in fact, LE is not even required by law to protect the public from a damn thing, only to investigate crimes after the fact). Worse, recent history proves that LE routinely ignores or fails to act upon repeated warning calls from friends and family members who are worried that someone is acting weird and might do something horrible. And the good guys should accept all this just because it would make so-called "progressives" happy?
That's pretty much the scenario the left is painting, as I see it. With all due respect, since you're a friend... this is friggin' lunacy!
With regards the NRA, I've yet to join the organization, but I am a card-carrying member of the USCCA, which comes with the appropriate insurance and support I would need in case, God forbid, I'm ever in the unfortunate position of having to shoot a bad guy in defense of my family. But thanks to the loony liberal juggernaut sweeping through la-la-land, such an event happening seems not as far-fetched as it once did not that long ago.
And as for our president, I didn't vote for him, but I agree with some of his policies, and disagree with others. Like any president, he's a mixed bag, and you gotta take the bag as it is. He's not a perfect human being, nor would any sane person expect him to be. But he's sure riled up the left, and even many of those entrenched deep-state Washington "conservatives" who are continually on the wrong side of their purported ideology. DC is become truly a swamp of corruption and perfidy. Trump's been a major disruption to the status quo, and DC not only deserves it, but desperately needs it. I wish him well.
