By now, you're probably familiar with Grand Rapids Mayor David LaGrand. He's the one who thinks we should be made to feel ashamed for having guns. Then he defended his comments by claiming that there was no actual plan in place, like saying that makes anything better.
It's funny because when he was in the state legislature in 2017, he actually supported a measure that would change the penalty for carrying a firearm with an expired permit to a simple fine. It seemed that he wasn't completely brain-dead back then.
Of course, now it's more politically tenable to be completely anti-gun than it was back then, so here we are.
His latest comment didn't make anyone feel any better.
Only thing that he clarified here is that he is a frustrated emotional tyrant who wants to dismantle the rights of gun owners in Grand Rapids, but doesn't have the authority to do so. https://t.co/Prm4sKGlm1
— GreatLakesGunRights (@GLGunRights) February 26, 2026
Over the last few days, as this has been brewing, I've been thinking that LaGrand's idea has some merit, but not in the direction he wants to take it.
See, I think it's up to us to make people like him feel ashamed for not having a gun.
When you think about it, these anti-gunners are really just parasites who are sponging off of the protection that people like you and I provide, either as gun owners ourselves or as simple taxpayers funding the law enforcement that many of them also advocated defunding.
They want protection and safety, but they want it provided for them. They do nothing to provide it for themselves, not much different than someone who expects a comfortable home, plenty of food, and all the niceties that one needs in modern society but refuses to work to pay for them. It's really no different.
They provide nothing to the safety beyond, maybe, their own tax money--cash that's nowhere near sufficient to pay for that protection--and demand society be kept safe for them, while doing nothing.
Even those who pay for private security do nothing to secure the rest of their community beyond such basic minimums. You know their security detail won't protect anyone else, and no one is going after Kim Kardashian when she's surrounded by the Rent-a-Secret-Service.
So while LaGrand thinks we should be made to feel ashamed for owning a gun--something none of us are going to do--maybe it's people like him who should be made to feel ashamed.
We take our rights seriously. We take the Constitution seriously. We take steps to protect those and our families ourselves, not believing that it's up to the government or our fellow taxpayers to hold the responsibility of our own safety. We do that and then some.
So yeah, LaGrand and his anti-gun buddies should be made to feel guilty.
If we took it in the same direction he would, we should do this to everyone who refuses to own a gun. I'm not entirely dismissive of that, either, for the same reasons stated above, though realistically, I get that some people know they don't have it in them to take a life and can respect that. I'd rather avoid it myself, if I can.
But the anti-gunners who want us disarmed should feel shame, not just for trying to infringe on our rights, but for just trying to make the world less safe, even if just for you and me, and for their refusal to recognize that it's not society's job to protect them, personally.
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