Perhaps we need to start a counter narrative; one that begins with "We will fight to the death to protect our children" (and then itemize how) ---- rather than lifting a rifle over our heads and cheering "from my cold, dead hands".
Just a suggestion ... take it or leave it.
It is an old Anti-Gun Leftist tactic to charge someone who owns guns and refuses to surrender them or agree to more regulatory and confiscatory ideas, with not loving children because they are armed.
My wife and I got that treatment just over 2 decades ago when our suburb decided to follow Morton Grove's total ban on gun ownership and the town council had a 'hearing' that was kept secret until the last minute about the municipality's ordinance proposal to do it. We showed up to voice our opinion with a few other local gun owners, and out-of-the-blue busses of anti-gun activists showed up to flood the 'hearing' and chant anyone down who was attempting to argue to the town council against the proposed ordinance.
The board seemed delighted every single time one of us was shouted down and silenced. The board allowed anti-gun screeds from people claiming to be residents - but when we asked them where they lived and what street they got belligerent. But the board refused to take order. It was 3 to 1 anti-gun comments to any one of our pro-2nd Amendment comments - and every single one of them was allowed to be interrupted, and when time ran out - the gavel came down and they would not let us finish our comments. Meanwhile, the anti-gun nazis spoke with little interruption (we were gaveled to silence because we booed them).
My wife got up and argued she was raised with guns, and was training our daughters to use them safely and properly as she was. Some hippie woman got right in her face and started screaming she did not love our kids and that the state should take them away. My wife told her to back off and the woman actually bumped her nose into my wife's while screaming (it looked like she head butted my wife) - and my wife hauled off and punched her in the face to which the cops came and escorted us out of the building. And during our exit down the gauntlet - we had cups of hot coffee thrown on us to chants of "You hate children! Unfit parents!".
Needless to say - the ordinance was already a done deal, passed in the middle of the night - and the "hearing" was just a formality because they conveniently skipped the public comment requirement until someone called them out on it in the local paper.
But, that was a suburb of Chicago - and the handwriting was on the wall that we had to get the hell out of there - and so we did, 8 months later.
