As of late, I’ve noticed many left-leaning gun owners tend to engage in willful ignorance or blissful naivety when it comes to the rather blatant in-congruent relationship they have with democrat politicians and guns.
So when I came across an article titled, “Biden’s gun control plan is terrible for working class firearm owners”, I lazily assumed it was written by a right wing conservative who was making the point about Joe Biden’s gun control plan that I’ve been making about gun control in general for years.
I was wrong
Kim Kelly wrote the article. You don’t have to know who Kim Kelly is to conclude that she’s anything but a right-wing conservative; all you’d have to do is make it to the latter half of the article or read her short author bio underneath the article image.
All things considered, even she recognizes that Joe Biden’s gun plan negatively affects the people who likely voted for him the most.
She Writes:
“Biden did shake the table in a different way in 2019 when he debuted his gun control platform. Later that year, when he bumbled into a heated exchange with a Detroit factory worker, who accused him of trying to “take away our guns,” right-wingers and gun rights groups gloated over the spectacle. But even now, after the world has changed several times over, it’s still hard to shake the feeling that that worker was right.
To the dismay of firearm enthusiasts on the left, Biden is still coming for some people’s guns. It’s now just a matter of who’s going to have them snatched — and who isn’t.“
Many liberal gun owners love telling non-liberal gun owners ( Not all gun owners are either left or right. There are many in the middle) that no one is trying to take your guns, so I’m sure those last two paragraphs set off a whole lot of cognitive dissonance in a lot of liberal gun owners.
Kim Continues:
“Alongside a raft of more common-sense measures (and a confusing aside about “smart gun technology”), its centerpiece is a ban on the manufacture and sale of what are known as “assault weapons,” with a proposal to bring their regulation under the National Firearms Act.
This 1934 law currently applies to “machine guns” (i.e. fully automatic firearms), silencers and short-barreled rifles, but Biden’s plan would extend it to apply to what he characterizes as “assault weapons,” meaning semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns with interchangeable magazines that fire intermediate cartridges (the most notorious of which is the AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle) as well as “high capacity magazines” (generally understood under the 1994 bill to be those that can hold more than 10 bullets).
“Individuals who already own these items would be required to participate in a federal buyback program or register each of their qualifying firearms and magazines under the NFA — which comes with a $200 price tag (on top of extra fees incurred during the registration process). When it was first enacted in 1934, that $200 fee was intended to be prohibitively expensive; now, inflation aside, it still is for many people.
Given how costly some firearms can be, that registration fee may not sound like too much of an added burden, but for a person who has already bought and paid for multiple qualifying firearms and magazines (or inherited them), that amount will add up quickly. Those who violate the NFA will also face up to 10 years in federal prison, and a potential $10,000 fine. Biden also wants to end the online sale of firearms and ammunition, including gun parts and parts kits that some people use to manufacture their own low-cost DIY firearms (known as ghost guns) further limiting accessibility.”
And there you have it clear as day, and it’s nothing I haven’t said for years. Hearing it come from someone who, based on her article’s tone, is not only not a right wing conservative, I doubt she’s even pro-gun in the traditional sense. If I had to guess, Kelly’s critique of the Biden gun plan is nothing more than a conduit to push her identity-based ideology. How you may or may not feel about that is irrelevant because the facts are the facts, Joe Biden’s gun control plan is elitist at best and downright predatory at worst.
As her Articles goes on, her political bias becomes increasingly pronounced.
“Regardless of one’s opinion on guns and gun control, it is obvious that this proposal will disproportionately impact poor and working-class communities. Those within those communities who already own firearms would be robbed of their ability to protect themselves and their loved ones, while their wealthier counterparts would skate by on their ready piles of cash. Stephen Paddock perpetrated one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history and could afford dozens of high-powered weapons and a plush Las Vegas hotel suite; this plan would have no effect on someone like him. In effect, Biden’s plan sets in motion a “war on guns,” the same way his predecessors declared wars on “poverty,” “crime” and “terror” — wars in which it was inevitably black and brown people who were the real targets.”
It’s clear Kelly’s passion is social Justice, where mine is 2A Advocacy, but no one can ignore, especially liberal gun owners the reality of Joe Biden’s gun control plan. And As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That is until they become my enemy. I’ve long said that guns should be A-Political, but to all fellow Liberal Gun owners, please stop saying no one is coming for your guns because it’s blatantly intellectually dishonest at this point.
