Beto O'Rourke, Gun Enthusiast

It is unfair to Bobby Frank O’Rourke and his associates  Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Pete Buttigieg to charge them with being “anti-gun”. These people love guns. They need guns.  They depend on guns. The things they want to do to the country are accomplishable (if at all) only at gunpoint. They are not in the business of inspiring or persuading other Americans  to do what they want. They don’t expect people to go along with them voluntarily. They plan to use the government to  force us to do so, and government power comes - in the words of a famous advocate of strong,vigorous central government -  from the barrel of a gun.

What they object  to is guns, and thus the means for self-defense, in  the hands of private citizens. Helpless and defenseless people are likely to do as they are told. People with options and capacities for exercising them may decide not to obey orders.  Americans are stubborn enough about not  following the dictates and wishes  of their assorted  would be masters in the political and bureaucratic classes.  Knowing that they have the ability - as a last resort if things ever get bad enough to justify it -  to resist very effectively and having the would be masters know it as well only tends to make them more so.

Millions of Americans who own firearms are peaceful people who are no threat to their neighbors or public safety. The leftist politicians who want to disarm them know this. Yet they persist in trying to disarm them. There probably are various reasons for this. However the safe assumption for people to make is that anyone who wants to make you helpless may have something unpleasant in mind for you.  It is also the natural one.