It continues to fascinate me how often those on the political left (which includes anti-2A activists who are nearly exclusively on the political left) seem to have absolutely no concept of the consequences of their actions. They push a policy position and then act surprised when other (completely obvious) things happen because of that policy position.
It’s the most bizarre thing.
I expect that kind of short-sighted inability to see consequences when I’m talking with little children. After all, they don’t have the life experience or the developed cognition to fully understand the consequences of their actions.
Adults, though? They’re old enough to know better.
Take blue state harassment of gun manufacturers. So often the legislators in those states act surprised and are upset about the loss of tax revenue when those companies leave.
But why wouldn’t the companies leave when there are red states who will treat them better? It’s common sense, really.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing happen. Kevin Stocklin writes,
Firearms manufacturers Ruger and Rideout Arsenal are heading south, continuing a trend of firearms companies leaving Democrat-run states.
On June 10, Virginia-based Rideout Arsenal, a firearms designer and manufacturer, announced that it would invest $22 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Thomasville, Georgia. The investment would create 120 new jobs over the next several years, the company said.
Also this year, Sturm, Ruger & Co. relocated its head office from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Mayodan, North Carolina.
Stocklin continues:
These moves follow a trend in which firearms manufacturers such as Remington, Winchester, Stag Arms, Magpul, Troy Industries, Smith & Wesson, Dark Storm, and others have relocated over the past decade from left-leaning states such as New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Colorado to conservative states such as Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee.
At this point, after a number of years of open hostility from left leaning politicians, the trickle of firearms manufacturers moving to red states has become a flood.
And can you blame them? No one likes to be a person used as a pack mule that gets kicked at every opportunity, but that’s what anti-2A politicians keep doing towards gun manufacturers.
So, they’ll lose those jobs and that tax revenue, and red states will gain both of those things.
