I read the Open Letter From New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon that Miguel covered briefly in his post Your Sunday Cup of Schadenfreude.
Then I read Miguel’s post from earlier today Please Contact Your U.S. Representative and Ask Them to Vote Against H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112!
There was a sentence in the open letter from Robert Mujica that is every bit as important for gun owners as it was for economically minded New Yorkers.
“The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they can lose to the vocal minority and self-interested politicians .”
The push for gun control, like the push to drive Amazon out of NYC, is motivated by a dangerous combination of ignorance and ideology.
These people don’t know how guns work, what the current laws are now, and how new laws won’t make a dent in crime, but they reflexively hate guns and are going to do their best to ban everything they can.
The silent majority that supports gun rights might not be as high as the percent that supported Amazon – it’s hard to tell because the media is always trying to marginalize gun owners to make it easier to take away our rights – but the people pushing for radical gun control are like those who pushed out Amazon, a dedicated group of vocal activists and not anything grassroots.
We saw and mocked NYC for allowing a small group of hard Leftists to kick $27 billion in taxes and 25,000-40,000 jobs out of the city.
We must make sure that the activist hydra of gun control groups – all of which seem to be connected at Michael Bloomberg’s bank account – are not the loudest voice that gets listened to.
If a few hundred union members and activists can make Amazon back out of NYC than what do you think a few thousand kids, most of who are marching just to take a day off of school and know shit about gun laws, can do to our gun rights?
Let’s not learn this lesson the hard way.
There are many times I’ve regretted staying silent. Excellent points.
The only thing worse than collectivism is collectivism combined with socal justice.
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I don’t stay silent, but when your reps are nothing more than gun loving democrats, what can you do? Voicing your opinion to them is as effective as pissing in the wind.
Pester them anyway… let then know there is opposition to Gun Control.
mavidal1: both my senators (fed) are leftys. Ghawd Alone knows how a relatively rural state such as mine sent BOTH of them to the District of corruption. Pestering them, as Miguel suggests, accomplishes one thing: it proves that they are not “the leaders” (as AOC styles it) of a monolithic bloc of gun grabbers. THAT might encourage them to look over their shoulders, either politically, or tactically, or both.