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http://www.americanthinker.com/2013...gun_owners_shows_us_a_nationalized_issue.html
Though the above article is a year old, similar trends to criminalize legitimate gun owners in the US are alive and well today. A recent post on the actions of the mayor of Grand Rapids MI on THR criminalizing legitimate gun owners is an alarming trend, a "back door" approach to make legitimate gun owners an aberration of society, working outside societal norms (the norms of those criminalizing legitimate gun owners), basically making legitimate gun owners pariahs of society.
There has been several attempts to publish legitimate gun owners names. This trend is basically an attempt to shame legitimate gun owners-like a modern Puritan stocks punishment. The problem with such an effort is that it would give criminals a road map to legitimate gun owners homes...And, if the trend continued towards publishing CPL holders, that would violate the reason behind CPL-"concealed carry" thus a private issue which should not be published.
This trend on criminalizing legitimate gun owners is disturbing. It's like criminalizing those who like to read books. Freedom of self expression is something many who push criminalizing legitimate gun owners would decry violently as tampering with their freedom of speech.
Thus the hypocrisy. As the article shows, hypocrisy is alive and well with any attempt to criminalize legitimate gun owners.
Though the above article is a year old, similar trends to criminalize legitimate gun owners in the US are alive and well today. A recent post on the actions of the mayor of Grand Rapids MI on THR criminalizing legitimate gun owners is an alarming trend, a "back door" approach to make legitimate gun owners an aberration of society, working outside societal norms (the norms of those criminalizing legitimate gun owners), basically making legitimate gun owners pariahs of society.
There has been several attempts to publish legitimate gun owners names. This trend is basically an attempt to shame legitimate gun owners-like a modern Puritan stocks punishment. The problem with such an effort is that it would give criminals a road map to legitimate gun owners homes...And, if the trend continued towards publishing CPL holders, that would violate the reason behind CPL-"concealed carry" thus a private issue which should not be published.
This trend on criminalizing legitimate gun owners is disturbing. It's like criminalizing those who like to read books. Freedom of self expression is something many who push criminalizing legitimate gun owners would decry violently as tampering with their freedom of speech.
Thus the hypocrisy. As the article shows, hypocrisy is alive and well with any attempt to criminalize legitimate gun owners.