Let me start off today’s article by bluntly saying that (legal) gun ownership and carrying a firearm on a daily basis for personal protection is normal, our right as Americans, and to anyone who thinks about the issue rationally, something that should be encouraged.
After all, an armed society is a polite society (see why mass shooters target gun-free zones to better understand this concept).
Today, though, we have one of the stranger ideas that I’ve seen come our way as a way to try to gaslight people into thinking that gun ownership is not normal. Because what those people in our favorite anti-2A state (notice the sarcasm, please) are saying about you and me is laughable at best and at worse, could be grounds for a lawsuit against them for defamation. Because they are calling you and me addicts.
I’m not kidding. LibertyDoll is kind enough to give us the incredibly strange details in the video below.
Did you watch the video?
Those people (in California, of course) are calling people who own guns gun “addicts.” As if gun ownership has a mind altering effect like the active ingredients in cocaine, meth, or heroin.
Frankly, I’ve never met a single person who flipped out with gun ownership, though, I’ve known several people who have been pretty messed up by their drug use (I had some rather “interesting” friends in high school whose example forever made me avoid drugs).
Gun ownership and drug addiction. These are not the same.
And it’s just bizarre to try to pretend that they are remotely similar.
As LibertyDoll mentioned, this is likely a way for these prisoners to try to get special treatment from the prison system in our victim-centric society.
And it’s a way for leftists bureaucrats to try to gaslight everyone else into believing that gun ownership (even legal gun ownership) is somehow strange, twisting of the mind and body, and to be avoided.
None of which is even remotely true.
If nothing else, though, you can tell your friends about these weirdos playing along with the gun-ownership-as-addiction idea so that you both get a good laugh about it.