I’ve (by Dan Mitchell) periodically featured folks on the left who have rejected gun control.
Now it’s time to look at another person who has changed his mind. Here are some excerpts from a column in the Des Moines Register written by a long-time supporter of gun control.
But he began to change his mind as the election was happening.
Sounds like he’s part of the 22 percent in my poll who support the 2nd Amendment because of concerns about crime. But he also enjoyed the process of becoming proficient.
His philosophical shift apparently wasn’t because he was convinced by the NRA, but rather because he grew increasingly concerned about the left’s radical opposition to private firearms (something I’ve noticed as well).
And even though he no longer considers himself on the left, he doesn’t want his friends on that side of the debate to misinterpret his views.
Since the author’s overall perspective has changed, I guess he doesn’t belong on my “honest leftists” page, but his shift on gun rights is nonetheless worth noting. Hopefully he’s now sufficiently “woke” on guns that he would be part of the resistance if his former fellow travelers on the left ever tried a gun ban. To close on a humorous note. Here’s the visual version of my IQ test on guns. Other examples of gun control satire can be found here, here, here, and here. Along with a bonus David Hogg edition.671 × 5 |