Gun Guys

What “liberals” need to understand about them:

I want to go back to the gun law history. In 1987, Florida responded to a wave of crime by loosening restrictions. Were you surprised by what happened as a result?

At the time, I thought, “Oh, this is going to be a bloodbath.” And it wasn’t. The late ’80s were a very violent time in the U.S. The crack cocaine thing was in full flower. Then Florida did this, and most liberals thought it was crazy. But crime dropped. A lot. Crime there is now half of what it was before then.

…These are precisely the kind of people the Democratic Party says it exists to serve. Over and over, people I met on my trip would say, “I don’t get it. Democrats are the party of the working man. How can the Democrats do this?” They feel so alienated that they won’t listen to the Democrats on climate change or health care or immigration or anything else. As a Democrat, it broke my heart to hear this over and over and over again. These are our guys. These are our people, and they hate us. We take this anti-gun position and we’re giving these people away, and we’re getting nothing in exchange. We are not making the country safer.

He might want to reconsider some of the other things that “liberals” think are crazy.

3 thoughts on “Gun Guys”

  1. The idea that a serf could have the same rights and rules as a knight self-defense wise predate the entire debate on firearms of any sort. The knights didn’t like it then either.

    And the technology has moved on to drones anyway.

  2. “Democrats are the party of the working man.”

    The Dems haven’t been the party of the working man or the little guy for decades. It’s about time the working man and the little guy wised up to that.

    Not that the GOP Establishment is any better.

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