Anti-Gunners Really Telling on Themselves

Everyone I know who carries a gun takes the responsibility very seriously. In fact, they view it as either a responsibility or a duty, but none of them take what they're doing lightly. After all, a moment's mistake can have a lifetime of ramifications for you as well as shatter who knows how many other lives.

We don't play around. 

When I'm carrying, I make it a point to be polite and non-confrontational--something I'm less successful with when I'm not carrying for whatever reason--simply because I don't want to do something to put myself in a situation that could escalate beyond my control and result in something horrible happening.

But over at Ammoland, my friend Dan Wos talks about how anti-gunners seem to see the world a little differently.

These arguments are ridiculous, but they use them anyway because a good portion of society will believe this type of rhetoric and fabricated narrative. The gun control argument is not necessarily designed to make sense but rather to influence by manipulating the emotions of people who can’t think for themselves. The idea that a gun could cause or influence violent behavior is a fallacy and most likely comes from the internal thoughts of those making the accusation. The argument for the most ridiculous ideas can be won if those making the argument are persistent and unwavering, regardless of how irrational the argument may be.

The idea that possessing a gun could influence the behavior of an individual is a particularly disturbing concept because it says much more about the person making the accusation.

Sigmund Freud coined the term “Projection.” Projection is a psychological defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own undesirable thoughts, feelings, or motives to others. It is often used as a way of avoiding responsibility for one’s own beliefs by assigning them to someone else.

With respect to gun-grabbers accusing people of behaving reactively when in possession of a gun, they may be revealing much more about themselves than they realize. Who should we be more concerned with when it comes to violent behavior, the person who has carried a gun for decades and never exhibited an act of violence toward others, or the person who is convinced that carrying a gun will induce some hidden, rageful behavior locked away in the human psyche of “others?”

Now, Dan goes on to talk about a lot more things, and I think you'd do well to go and read the whole thing because his point is different than the one I'm going to make here. It's not contrary to it, mind you, as we agree on pretty much all of what he wrote. I just want to focus on this bit here.

I've seen a lot of anti-gunners make statements akin to concern that if they got mad, they'd just shoot someone. I've seen others talk about assaulting people who are openly carrying, taking their gun, and then holding them hostage until the police arrive. On a lot of levels, there does seem to be some validity to the point that many people are anti-gun because they know they shouldn't be trusted with guns.

They see the world is violent because they, themselves, are violent. They see everyone just one cross word away from a mass shooting because that's how they would deal with that cross word.

I'm not going to say all anti-gunners are like that, in part because not all of them make those kinds of remarks, but a lot of them do, and they're not challenged by their own side. They're tolerated. No one from their side calls them out because they, at best, see it as a useful argument. At worst, some of them aren't saying anything because they agree, they're just smart enough not to call attention to their own violent tendencies.

In short, a lot of them are telling on themselves, and what they're saying doesn't speak well of who they are.

Editor’s Note: The gun control lobby will stop at nothing to enact their radical agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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