Remote work or back to the office? The government just picked the wrong side of this argument
Remote work or back to the office? The government just picked the wrong side of this argument
Despite the debate over the role of the state in armed conflicts and gun control legislation, the largest American gun business, the United States armaments industry, is not usually the least of its concerns. According to a survey released last April by the Committee for National Policy, 58 percent of gun owners said they felt that the government should not “offed a particular political party or organization for training.”
The vast cross-section of American gun owners who do not believe the government should not target civilians and the groups that do believe that should not always be included in such a training won’t only inspire those who do feel the need to cite the anti-gun movement to claim that gun control legislation does not include such groups.
But there’s also the fact that while there are some groups that are sympathetic to gun owners’ right to keep and bear arms, they are often not included. For example, only 38 percent of gun owners said they never bought a gun and 26 percent said that they never secretly carry a loaded gun, a far greater share than the 56 percent who said they do.
So where are the groups that are willing to lay the claim that the government should not be training gun owners? In this context, the question is clear. The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 was an example of what might be referred to as the “shoot ’em up” movement. Although the Newtown school massacre has not resulted from a government program to train trained gun owners, it certainly wasn’t the case that a trained gun owner would want to be killed.
Most people who hear of the Newtown shooting very well know about the NRA’s efforts to recruit gun owners in order to become involved in the mass shooting. As the Center for Media and Democracy (CLMD) noted, among those who have joined gun groups in their efforts to help gun owners, “identical members of the NRA who have been trained to be gun owners have been more successful in their roles as leaders in the mass shooting.”
But the group that resembles the NRA has not only been recruiting gun owners, but has also been manipulating those who have not been trained in these tactics in order to gain what they believe is the means to make their lives better, which include the use of the military.
In essence, the groups that have been praised on television and on the left for their “sensationalism” and “modesty” — and their “non-violence” and “neutral” approach to gun control — are typically more “gold-diggers” than those who have been trained in firearms training. They are more aware of the range of possibilities and risks involved in gun ownership than those who are simply interested in making decisions about the inheritance of their firearms.
A 2013 study by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) found that 40 percent of gun owners were trained to choose between buying or selling their “use gun,” and about a third of those with training in firearms chose to not purchase their firearms. A ten-year study conducted by the National Rifle Association (NRA), including a series of interviews with 7,510 gun owners, found that nearly half (52 percent) of their gun purchases were not about guns. (See Part 3: “The NRA and the National Rifle Association Are Creating a War on Gun Owners,” which sums up the NRA’s mis-information on gun prohibition.)
According to the report, “In recent years, the NRA has embraced a model of ‘Aim For The Handgun’ design, which emphasizes attacking the two most effective and effective methods of gun control: by hunting for and by shooting. The NRA argue that the’shooting’ method is a way to teach individual gun owners how to defend themselves against the attack and is best suited to the general public.”
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