My point is politicians could care less about you more than you realize, most of what they are doing isn't what is best for the country but is best for their wallets/purses... If they take your guns then they take away your right to do something about the laws they are creating to benefit only them and their handlers...
Well, statistically speaking, you stand to make a lot more money as a politician being pro-gun than anti-gun.
We'll look at the two big organizations on both sides of the fence
Brady Campaign to end gun violence:
Total Lobbying Expenditures: $106,181
NRA:
Total Lobbying Expenditures: $2,675,240
Even if you look at grand totals:
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=Q13&year=2015
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=Q12&year=2015
Gun Rights lobby spends nearly 7x the amount that the gun control lobby spends.
...and again, I'm saying this as a person who's very much pro-gun (I have an arsenal that would make a bond villain jealous lol)
...but math is math.
You do remember why/how this country was founded don't you??? It wouldn't have been possible to banish the tyranny without their weapons now would it??? All through history man has experienced tyranny... It has been forced upon man through the use of weapons and man in turn banished tyranny through the use of weapons, not by voting them out!!!
For some reason everytime man has freed himself from tyranny his descendants have become complacent and given the hard earned freedom away to the lying politicians...
While I certainly see a wide variety of reasons for keeping and bearing arms, my fellow pro-gun people need to stop resorting to bringing up scare tactics. They paint this picture that if strict gun control is implemented, it leads to martial law and tyranny in short order.
The reality is, no first-world country that has implemented strict gun control has seen either of those things happen.
There are a wide variety of legitimate sporting and defensive reasons for owning a firearm, and a wide variety of data points that could be cited to rebuttal the claims made by the left-wing gun control crowd on the topics of homicide and safety.
If you want to rebuttal the false arguments by some of the folks on the left that are claiming that gun ownership rates correlate to murder rates, then something like this would speak volumes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state
...as opposed to making wild claims about the prospect of government tyranny.
The most tyrannical act in US history happened when there was virtually no gun control whatsoever...and that was the gold seizure under FDR (if you're not familiar with it, look it up), he forced the US citizens to turn in their gold to the government for less than market value with the threat of 10 years in prison if you didn't comply (numerous people ended up getting locked up). Plenty of gun toting people back then...did any of them do anything about it? ...nope.
And to re-iterate, I'm saying this as a person who owns an AK, 2 AR's, 2 bold action rifles, a variety of handguns, and a tactical shotgun...so I'm definitely not anti-gun by any stretch...I just feel we should make rational arguments against gun control and not irrational ones as that only serves to weaken the pro-gun position by making it a joke.
