This Is NOT the Rhetoric Needed to Oppose Trans Gun Ban Proposal

A few weeks ago, news broke that Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering a ban on transgender people buying guns. The reaction was immediate. Obviously, the left lost their minds.

But they weren’t alone.

Pretty much every gun rights group also stepped up and noted that this was a terrible idea, that prohibiting an entire group of people from owning guns because of the actions of a few was how gun control has always worked and that’s the very thing they opposed. We also took it on here at Bearing Arms, opposing the proposal.

Since then, there’s been absolutely no movement on the idea. The word “considering” is important because, in the heat of the moment, a ton of people consider stupid crap as a good idea until they calm down and realize just how terrible it was. I’d like to think Bondi realized that.

Then we had Charlie Kirk get killed. This comes after years of the left demonizing the man, calling him everything but a decent human being, and now a lot of people fear we’re on the brink of civil war.

But we could, in theory, ramp down the rhetoric. This, however, is not how you do it.

It starts with a title that says, “‘You compare them to Nazis when they act like Nazis:’ GOP’s dark path with transgender gun ban.”

Yeah…that’s guaranteed to calm things down.

A developing Republican proposal to strip gun rights from transgender Americans would take the country down a path similar to one from history’s darkest chapters, say the hosts of Today in Ohio.

In a forceful segment of the cleveland.com and Plain Dealer news podcast discussion, the conversation about the proposed policy quickly escalated beyond typical political debate into a stark warning about historical patterns repeating themselves.

“We’re following the Nazi playbook here. That’s what the Nazis did. They vilified individual groups of people, stripped them of their rights, and went down the path they went down… This is all about vilifying one group.”

Anticipating potential backlash for invoking such a comparison, Quinn doubled down, stating he had a message for the people who complain when he compares the actions by the Trump administration to those of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

“You compare them to the Nazis when they act like Nazis. That’s what this is.”

Now, I find it interesting that now gun rights matter here when they seem to be a roadblock any other time.

Still, a gun ban for any group of people is a bad idea, and there are a lot of other ways you could take issue with it. We all did, and we did it without comparing Bondi and the Trump administration to Nazis. 

Of course, the flip side of that is that yes, the Nazis did enact gun control, stripping people of their gun rights, and anti-gunners seek to do that all the time, but again, it’s not a productive dialogue.

Look, if you keep calling people Nazis all the time, sooner or later, someone’s not going to take it as just a comparison. They’re going to take it literally, and they’re going to act on it. We’ve seen a lot of violence from the American left of late, and you’re going to have a hard time convincing me that it wasn’t prompted on some level by extremist rhetoric like this.

If we want to step back from the edge, we all need to take a moment and breathe. Calling people Nazis isn’t the way to do it, especially over a proposal that has gained almost no support.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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