Thursday, April 17, 2014

Consistency in Political Thought

The fight for gun rights often benefits from very singular and acute focus. Yoking gun rights to another political topic or party will almost always do more harm than good.

Check out this article at Reason.com called Pot, Poker and Prohibition. It calls out a few current examples where Republicans support statist means to their ends, while also claiming anti-statist moral authority on topics like gun rights.
"The contradiction illustrates one reason the GOP seems destined for permanent minority status: Too many of its members are unprincipled...."
In other words, telling people the government shouldn't interfere in their liberty in one box, while championing that interference in another box is hypocritical, and undermines trust that a gun rights advocate has any true conviction about the foundation premises of liberty. It's hard for me to not get preachy on this topic, but if the goal is to get more people into the gun-rights camp, it's critical that we don't let gun rights get tarred with cronyism or prohibition politics. It means we take all comers, no matter their view on abortion, gay rights, the war on drugs, etc. In this way, gun rights stands or falls on its own, and is less subject to the stereotypes used to discredit the cause.

Yoking gun rights to another political topic or party will almost always do more harm than good!

1 comment:

  1. It is really pathetic that most of the countries don't have enough rule for the gun. So It is used by the people normally. That's why sometimes we face many problem by terrorist. I think get gun easily is the main reason of this problem.

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