One of the most offensive things that consistently comes out of the political left (which is where the anti-2A movement is firmly planted) is how they stereotype everyone. They don’t treat anyone has an individual but treat everyone as a caricature who can’t think for themselves (when, ironically, it’s leftists who don’t seem to be able to think for themselves).
So, leftists treat men, especially those of a paler ethnic complexion, as being neanderthals looking for a fight all of the time. And leftists treat anyone who isn’t a Caucasian male as if they are automatically a victim whether anything has happened or not.
And, of course, since those on the political left like to pretend that they’re the ones who are advocates for victims, they assume that they know what’s best for everyone and that every “victimized” group will support them.
But Democrats in Congress found out the hard way that not every “victim” group agrees with leftists’ idiotic political ideologies when the black female co-owner (with her husband) of a gun store told them truths that they didn’t want to hear (hat tip to here for the lead). Larry Keane writes,
Geneva Solomon brought her story of domestic abuse survival and empowerment through exercising Second Amendment rights to the committee hearing. She also added a much-needed perspective of how important Second Amendment rights are to the African American community and how misguided gun laws, like those in California where she owns and operates Redstone Firearms – the first Black-owned brick-and-mortar firearm retailer in the state – raise roadblocks to exercising Second Amendment rights.
“My journey from victim to survivor to advocate has led me to this moment today,” explained Solomon, who is an NSSF member and also a member of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA). “As a Black woman, this is not a matter of imagination. It was my lived experience.”
Solomon said her path to healing and protecting herself and her family made her realize, “I had to become my own first responder.”
Solomon also talked about how gun control efforts in California have made it more difficult for women and ethnic minorities to be able to arm themselves for self-protection.
The fact of the matter is that private gun ownership empowers women and ethnic minorities to protect themselves from criminals, and we should be encouraging everyone (and, maybe, especially women and ethnic minorities) to arm themselves, train with their firearms, and carry daily so that the criminals that they have to face on a regular basis start to be the ones that are scared instead of the innocent and law-abiding.
As human beings and as Americans, the right to defend yourself is one of the most basic human rights.
As a kid growing up, my dad always had a revolver on the dresser in their bedroom and a 12 ga shotgun behind the kitchen door. As soon as I was able to move around the house, i.e. crawl walk move about, both of my parents taught me to NEVER touch these firearms. My older brothers both had .22 single shot rifles and again NEVER touch them. When I was about 14, my dad and brothers started to teach me how to use them, but never by myself. When I was 16, I was finally aloud to use the firearms in a safe manner. The moral here is all it takes to stop all the accidental shootings is nothing more than GOOD PARENTING.
My granddad had a collection of black powder rifles & pistols (which I helped him later add to, via building) and he had a few more “modern” pieces.
When I was five, I got the “safety demo” – go out to the garden, get a watermelon. Put it on a stump. He backs off about ten feet from the stump, aiming at the watermelon and – through it – the junction of a berm and the ground. “Block your ears.” He lets drive at the watermelon. “Go find the biggest piece you can.” It was about the size of my five-year-old hand. I brought it back. “Remember that watermelon you could barely carry? That’s what’s left. That’s why these aren’t toys, and you don’t do anything with them unless I’m around.” “Yes, /sir/.” (He used, as I recall, a .58 calibre cap-and-ball with Minie balls.)
Safe handling with the .22 the following summer, with supervised shooting. UNsupervised shooting of the .22 the following summer, supervised shooting of minor centerfire firearms starting the following summers – and some of his “utility” black powder pieces as well. By the time I was ten, I’d been through everything and was trusted. There was also no “mystique” to them – I understood /what/ was dangerous about them (I also understood they were not dangerous /in/ /se/ – it was /how/ /they/ /were/ /handled/ that made them dangerous or not,) how to handle, fire, load, and unload them safely, and when something happened that had me in over my head and what to do with it until I could get his attention on it (at which point, I learned something new. It was this attitude that got me trusted with firearms much more quickly than my – rather younger – cousin. He’d goof around, I was always attentive and learning. He was hard-pressed to limit himself to safe handling, I learned how to tear them to bits and put them back together again, minus dirt. I didn’t need to be watched doing this – I never mislaid any parts or put them in backwards. That initial lesson in respect fifty years ago really “took” – I have zero negligent discharges, zero accidental shootings, and zero user-caused malfunctions (except those I deliberately inflict upon people in training) in the last 50 years. I consider that a reasonably good record.
As a kid I spent my summers on a family ranch and loved it. When I was about five years old, my grand father taught my brother and I about gun safety and how to shoot and hit our target. When you came in the front door of our house, you could see about five riffles in every corner of the living room. That was normal for me. Everyone in the country had riffles in their truck window and most had them the same in their house. My Dad was on the Sherriff Dept., and carried a 357 colt, my brother was old enough to get one so he got the same as Dad, I had my 3030 deer riffle in my room, there was a fish tank in the wall of my up stares room and I could see through the dining room into the living room. Early sat. morning we heard a commotion and 3 #^* agents had my mother trying to handcuff her. My Dad, my brother and me all pulled the hammer back about the same time and my Dad said, WRONG HOUSE FELLAS. When they saw 3 guns surrounding and trained on them, it didn’t take long before they were checking their paperwork and getting away from my mother, along with many apologies. What would my mother have gone through if we weren’t armed? God made man, 2A and Colt made us equal. Keep Holding on
DO REMEMBER, America had anti-2A laws at one time ( like German Jews ) Native Americans and Free Blacks could not have guns and things did not work out well for them …
Fine. I fully agree. But it must be impressed upon Congress that, for exactly the same reasons, the 2nd. Amendments apply also to all people who are not either black nor female. Let nobody evade the fact that those people have those rights too, for all the same reasons.
Great article and replies.
We definitely need and must defend and protect our RIGHT to own Firearms for hunting and self defense. The satanic, CORRUPT, UNGODLY, WICKED, ILLEGAL, ILLEGITIMATE, VILE, GROSS, FILTHY leftist regime as usual has everything BASSACKWARDS! they DO NOT have the right to take away our FREEDOMS, RIGHTS, LIBERTIES, VALUES, MORALS, PRINCIPLES, VIRTUES, AND SOVEREIGNTY from us! And by GOD, they WILL NOT! MAY GOD BLESS, PROSPER, DEFEND, PROTECT, CONVERT, HEAL, AND SAVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🇺🇸, ISRAEL AND THE REST OF THE WORLD! IN THE HOLY, MIGHTY, BLESSED, LOVING, REDEEMING, SAVING, MEDIATING, HEALING, HELPING, AND ALL ELSE GOOD PERSON, NAME AND BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, AAAMEN 🇺🇸!!!!!!!! We are not doormats to be trampled on neither are we sheep, but rather SHEEPDOGS to fend off and destroy the domestic/ foreign , spiritual/physical terrorists/enemies that are attempting to control us and bring us to heel !!!!!!!!
I liked the article and have to agree with Geneva Solomon. Any state or nation that removes guns from legal owners is heading toward a totalitarian state. All one has to do is look at history. The Romans tried it. The Nazis tried it. The communists of Cuba did it. Other communist countries have done it. Where has it gotten their citizens? Under control of these regimes. I am praying that we, citizens of the United States, can defend our rights to continue to bear arms in defense of ourselves, neighbors, communities and country.
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