Originally Posted by
SteyrAUG
It should, but it really depends what you buy and where.
Or to use an analogy, buying porn "should" help support first amendment free speech issues and it does to a limited extent, unless of course you have "free speech" views regarding religion, guns or things of that nature.
You should also keep in mind firearm related businesses often buy "opinion insurance" by supporting "common sense" gun laws. Unless a company actually makes AR-15s, they probably think "nobody needs an AR-15." When it comes to profits or threatening the profits of a board of directors they will throw anyone and everyone under the bus.
In "common sense" land everyone who LAWFULLY owns a firearm should immediately realize "they are talking about ME" when people mention reasonable gun control because we already have laws that prohibit criminal use of firearms or even lawful ownership of firearms by criminals. So when they talk about new laws, they are talking about further restrictions on the law abiding gun owner. So collectors, hobbyist, recreational target shooters, hunters and all the other people dabble in firearms need to realize they are legislating their own rights away one little bit at a time.
But people who believe in "reasonable limits on guaranteed personal freedom" do this kind of thing all the time. They support laws that limit their expression of free speech, their practice of religion, what they can read, what they can view and what they can own. And if you can get enough non critical thinkers together, they will cheerfully vote their own freedoms away so they won't be at the mercy of other people with freedoms that cause them concern.
Of course that's when people actually get the opportunity to actually vote or demand representation for their government. The reality is it's pretty much all just an elaborate shell game where Group A represents half of the views you agree with and Group B represents the other half of the views you agree with and they tell you it's an "all or nothing game" while taking turns limiting your rights and actual influence on government.
There are a few issues where a strong powerful group can make a government pay "holy hell" if they overreach. These include abortion, racism against minorities and once upon a time guns.
You said that well.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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