My handgun. A better picture than showing a bunch of protesters.
As you probably know a bunch of kids were encouraged to walk out of their classes today to demand gun control. Why we would listen to a bunch of kids that are demanding their own rights be taken away is beyond me but the event is getting a lot of media coverage. I have a few thoughts about it.
1. It's very obvious that these protests are not organic. There is evidence that the unions and general anti-America groups like the Woman's March are supporting and organizing these events. The kids aren't organizing themselves, it's the left's superior organization skills that are the cause of this. It's not organic and nobody should think it is.
I think that the right needs to get way better are counter-protest and organization in general. We are pretty good at giving the money to the NRA, which nets us judicial and legislative outcomes but we fail when it comes to this kind of thing.
2. It's very obvious why most of these kids went along with this. Very few of them actually care about gun rights either way, but if you give them a chance to get out of school they will take it. I am guessing if the right had the left's organization abilities we would have gotten the same turnout from kids who just want to skip school.
3. This protest shows why we should never give in to gun control. President Trump is going to ban bump stocks, which is a major new form of gun control that gun control advocates have demanded since the invention of bump stocks. Does Trump get any credit for it? Of course not. These kids were never told that there was new gun control and the organizers want nothing less than gun confiscation.
It also was a bad move for Trump. My experience with bump stocks is that nobody in the gun rights community respect them and most of us wouldn't care that they were banned. But everyone is upset that Trump just gave the gun control community a win with nothing in exchange.
You can't negotiate with the gun control groups. They don't believe in anything but a total removal of guns, further than what Europe and even Australia have done. If they really wanted compromise they would give us something for what they demand, like CCW reciprocity and suppressor legalization. They don't want that and they will never settle for anything else than full confiscation.
4. I don't expect any new major gun control laws in the future, at least on a federal level. At the state level it's a different ball game but nationally there won't be an assault weapon ban. There probably will be some changes to the background check system but that's not a huge deal and honestly after how badly background checks have failed it might actually be justified.
5. The push for gun control, though it will fail, is having a large effect on the gun market right now. There is a lot of panic buying going on right now and that means everything gets rarer and more expensive. That's a good thing for gun rights supporters and gun companies but it is annoying in one respect.
I was thinking of purchasing a new gun for myself but the push for gun control has raised prices and demand. I'm not a panic buyer, I've been wanting another gun for a long time now. But now prices are up and it's harder to find what you want. It's annoying.
I do have to say that I find it really funny that these people don't understand that they are better gun salesmen than any of the advertising buys any gun company could ever be. A lot of people said that Barack Obama was the best gun salesmen ever, but David Hogg and his stupid shill friends are making a good run on it.
6. We have to realize that the media is against this. There has been approximately zero coverage of the children that didn't participate in this event or the ones that counter protested. I think that many children did not support this walkout but you would never hear it from the media.
Part of it too is that most of the cities where this happened in are in deep Democratic controlled areas. The media was not going to send reporters to conservative areas that support gun rights.
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