Why Anti-Gun Influencers Shouldn’t Be Taken Seriously

The Krassenstein brothers aren’t anything special. They’re loud voices on Twitter/X who are probably best known off that platform for suing Donald Trump for blocking them on the platform. That’s the decision that found that a politician’s social media is considered a public forum and they can’t block voters.

Brian and Ed Krassenstein are loud, but they’re also fairly typical of many on that side of the aisle.

And that means they talk a lot of crap about things they know nothing about, particularly guns. After all, let’s check this bit out.

So does recoil from shooting a gun one handed while holding a cell phone in the other hand. I don’t believe that he has internal bleeding. It’s probably just a hemorrhoid or a bruise.

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 14, 2026

That’s right. Not only does he disparage the internal bleeding that the ICE agent struck by Renee Good was reportedly treated for, but he also illustrates just how little he knows about firearms.

For example, he doesn’t specify any type of gun. He just seems to think that firing any gun one-handed results in injury.

He was properly ridiculed for this in his replies, though I doubt he saw any of them. Well, I’m going to make fun of him off the platform, too, because what we have here is a case of weapons-grade stupidity, and it’s from someone who at least some people take seriously.

Anyone who shoots regularly or who even watched a western movie probably already knows this is absolute nonsense. One-handed shooting was, for a long time, the way handguns were fired. This includes the venerable 1911 when it first came out. The two-handed stances we all know and love today are rather recent creations.

Before they were invented, the 9mm and the .45 ACP rounds were already in circulation, as well as rounds like the .357 magnum. In other words, the rounds we think of today as effective for self-defense and law enforcement purposes were all available. They were fired one-handed all the time.

No one got injured.

Even today, many people train at least some shooting one-handed, if for no other reason than to prepare for the possibility that they might have to shoot one-handed due to an injury or something.

So Ed sits there and pronounces that the recoil from shooting one-handed causes injury. Well, he says shooting one-handed while holding a cell phone causes it, so maybe it’s the cell phone? That must be the difference. Something about the massive weight of a cell phone throws the shooter off balance, thus causing the modest recoil from their Glock 17s to suddenly increase by orders of magnitude, causing internal bleeding, cancer, endometriosis, shingles, and toe fungus.

This is why people like Ed need to sit down and shut up.

They expound on numerous topics they know nothing about, try to sound authoritative, and really just come across as complete and total morons. Even people who normally agree with them, but know this was nonsense, should remember this. Unfortunately, they’ll likely suffer from Gell-Mann Amnesia, forget all about this, and follow the Krassenstein brothers when they talk about something these followers don’t know anything about. If they get guns this wrong, even such a very, very simple fact, what else are they peddling to their audience for those big bucks on X?

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

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