They seem to have a cavalier world view pertaining to gun rights in the USA and think that there is no way gun rights can be threatened in the USA.
I used to live in Massachusetts and gun ownership was made into a very difficult venture on a state level and depending on the town you lived in it could be damn near impossible.
There were police chiefs that found ways to deny the general public gun ownership and this is the case in most of NY state and California as well amongst other states.
A dramatic gun confiscation is most likely not a threat but gradual over regulation is.
So many people forget that countries like England had massive rates of gun ownership throughout the 19th century and well into the later part of the 20th century.
It was not until the 1980's that it became a country with nearly no legal gun owners or firearms enthusiasts.
Australia was another country with massive firearm ownership and its only been in the past decade that they have seen their rights stripped away.
Brazil also comes to mind.
Jamaica had a massive gun ban in the 1970s under the marxist sympathizer prime minister Micheal Manley.
Manley demanded that all gun owners turn in every firearm they own within a weeks time or face criminal charges and imprisonment.
Of course every law abiding citizen heeded his demands and a week later criminal gangs terrorized, looted, raped, assaulted and murdered large numbers of Jamaicans and exapts.
This was during a time of great racial tension between the black majority and the white business and planter class.
I know a English descended Jamaican that lived through this event and experienced the violence first hand.
He knew many of the victims of this violent class/ racial/political clash.
Many Jamaicans I know feel the violence was racially focused while others feel it was purely economic/ class focused but it makes you wonder why leftist media correlates its distain for gun ownership with white people.
Just google white gun owners and the first three pages of your google search will be filled with publications like Salon, the Huffington post ect harping on white racist men and how they stockpile guns.
never is there an article expressing their disgust on how Indian American tribes stockpile guns on their reservations or how black nationalists support gun ownership or Asian immigrants and Asian American business owners have high rates of gun ownership.
The focus is white gun owners and when it is convenient they speak generally about Americans and gun ownership when they wish to shift the narrative.
There is a racial focus for this gun confiscation/ regulation agenda but more importantly there is a problem with this " American exceptionalism" you know this thing the left constantly criticizes patriotic Americans over.
They feel there is no threat to gun rights simply because there is a high rate of ownership and a massive number circulating. News flash all the countries I mentioned had a massive level of gun ownership and large numbers of guns circulating and now they are countries where legal gun ownership is nearly impossible and rare though Jamaica has recently over the years created much more laxed gun laws compared to its 1970s all out ban.
What frustrates me the most is the fact that many pro 2nd amendment gun owners I meet take this cavalier attitude " oh gun bans in America are impossible".
How are they impossible? Its very possible but more than anything a gradual over regulation is more likely.
British citizens can own very restricted class of firearms and police reserve the right to deny you for any reason they want.
As a result there are few gun owners in England and the few that remain often face massive stigmatization from society and they can not use their firearms for any form of defense what so ever.
This is a video from reason tv showing how impossible a gun ban is.
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