I Used to Hate Guns and the NRA. Then I Was Mugged.

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I Used to Hate Guns and the NRA. Then I Was Mugged.

Ryan Moore   July 24, 2018 / 170 Comments

"I donate to the NRA after mass shootings because of the anti-gun left," writes Ryan Moore. (Photo: yacobchuk/Getty Images)
 

I’d hated guns since I was a teenager. It was a gun that killed John Lennon, after all. Guns killed President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.

Get rid of the guns, problem solved—or so I thought. In December of 2012, I even tweeted President Barack Obama, urging him to repeal the Second Amendment and “stop” the National Rifle Association. (Never mind that a president can’t do either by himself.)

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As the author himself notes, he was also "mugged" by reality. However, the key takeaway is his new-found comprehension of the following essential truth:

Gun-free zones aren’t the answer, and other gun laws are not working. Most gun control measures tend to disarm law-abiding citizens rather than criminals, who do not obey gun laws.

It should not take a threat of bodily harm for liberals to come to such an understanding, but it seems as though nothing else quite reaches their closed minds like being exposed to armed members of the criminal class in person, alone, and unprotected.