{"id":352931,"date":"2018-03-19T20:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blood-on-whose-hands-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T20:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:35:22","slug":"blood-on-whose-hands-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blood-on-whose-hands-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood on Whose Hands? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the last month, we\u2019ve heard a lot of horrible things about the NRA. It\u2019s important to understand a few things that are taking place that may not be obvious, however. These are things that directly impact you as a gun owner and as a gun rights supporter.<\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s understand that when one of the Parkland kids or some other gun control advocate says \u201cNRA,\u201d they\u2019re using that as a proxy. They mean every one of us. They lump us in as the NRA only because it\u2019s the biggest group of us, but make no mistake; they\u2019re talking about every single gun owner. After all, how many NRA supporters would still support gun rights if they stopped being members? None.\u00a0That\u2019s because the NRA is reflective of the membership, not the other way around. They may or may not get that. But, it\u2019s worth remembering that the NRA means all of us, regardless of membership.<\/p>\n

So whenever\u00a0someone says the NRA has blood on its hands, it means\u00a0we<\/em>\u00a0have blood on our hands. When some progressive governor claims the NRA\u00a0is a terrorist organization<\/a>, he\u2019s saying\u00a0we<\/em>\u00a0are terrorists. These insults aimed at the NRA are really aimed at every single one of us.<\/p>\n

And when they do talk about us directly, it\u2019s rarely flattering. Progressives claim\u00a0we\u2019re \u201cstockpiling\u201d guns<\/a>. They claim we\u2019re doing it\u00a0because we\u2019re afraid of black people<\/a>. Then again, a number\u00a0still think we\u2019re racist<\/a>, too. Others will claim that we think gun control is\u00a0an attack on our masculinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re aimed at us for a specific purpose.<\/p>\n

You see, they\u2019re trying to stigmatize gun ownership. Progressives want to make it taboo to own a gun, or at least to talk about it. The idea is to shift public opinion to such a point that something once socially acceptable \u2013 owning a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the last month, we\u2019ve heard a lot of horrible things about the NRA. It\u2019s important to understand a few things that are taking place that may not be obvious, however. These are things that directly impact you as a gun owner and as a gun rights supporter. First, let\u2019s understand that when one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}