GUN OWNERS RIGHTS AND MORALITY

There seems to be something missing in some gun owner’s logic. Let me explain my thinking with a little anecdote.  A angry looking disheveled man rushes into a hardware store yelling, “I am so G.. d… mad at my wife; quick, sell me a hammer. The hardware store owner looks at the man and says to him, look friend, “It would not be morally right for me to sell you a hammer in your state of mind.” The storeowner then adds, “Sell you a hammer? No, but I will sell you a gun because it is your Constitutional right to have one.” What has convinced the hardware storeowner it is right to think this way—to remove morality from business?  

“I hate the government, sell me a gun,” they demand, and thousands upon thousands of gun storeowners will sell that angry customer a gun. If anyone says no to them their first response is, “You have to because it is my constitutional right.” This leads to additional inane rhetoric; people often say I need a gun because if the government comes to get my gun I have to have a gun to fight them. If criminals attack me I need a gun to protect myself, which is saying that we will be the safest if everyone owns a gun. One only has to think about the guy who rushed into the hardware store to know this is wring..

The few people the public thinks control the NRA don’t. Significantly, they also lead the great majority of good honest members around by the nose. The ones you hear are not sophisticated enough to manipulate the internal political structure of the organization to gain control of the NRA; however, the gun manufactures are. They are the ones who installed the board of directors. They are the ones who gave the microphone to the survivalists and anarchist and keep it away from the good honest gun owner. They are the people who make money off manufacturing an selling guns then invest huge profits in lobbying efforts in Washington DC, in State legislative, and governor races around the country and more importantly in advertisements aimed at the sportsmen and sportswomen, and at others recreational gun users. They do this because gun manufacturers and sellers realize a huge return on their investment convincing a good segment of the population that the government is going to come for their guns, which is simply not true but it is good business.

Unfortunately, many recreational gun owners, which are what hunters and target shooter are, blindly follow their lead; shame on them. Add this number to a huge segment of the population who live in cities with police protection but do not live in neighborhoods of cities with tattooed gangs who own gun; hence, do not actually experience gun violence but have been convinced they need a gun in the bedside nightstand. It is this expanded segment of the rational self-protection crowd, who demand they have the right to buy guns because “it is their constitution right”.

Recreational and rational gun owners should take over by the NRA and demand that the majority regain the vote the gun manufacturers took away from them. Most NRA members support Obama administration’s gun proposals. Shake off the influence of the greedy arms industry and stand up for gun control—it is the morally right thing to do.