The Democratic Party has a problem. They might have done well in the off-year elections, but they still know they have an issue with young male voters. That was a big part of why Donald Trump won and why the Democrats have tried outreach. Then again, hiring an obese, extremely leftist woman who might not even know any men was probably not the best strategy they could have undertaken, though they’ve course-corrected to some degree on that fiasco.
But they still have an issue, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has some advice for them.
From a press release:
Recent stories at Reuters and MSNBC reveal Democrats are lamenting the loss of male voters, especially younger ones, in recent election cycles, and they are considering different strategies to bring them back.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has a suggestion for these Democrats. Stop pushing legislation aimed at eroding their Second Amendment rights.
“A large percentage of male voters are gun owners,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and they are tired of being penalized for crimes they didn’t commit, and being threatened with even more restrictions simply because they choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
“Male voters are not going to give up their rights just to make Democrats feel good about themselves,” Gottlieb continued. “They are not going to make friends with a party whose agenda includes trampling on their personal liberty, and that includes owning firearms.
“Democrats seem to forget that exercising the right to own a gun does not require getting permission from the government,” he observed. “Rights are not subject to expensive training requirements, waiting periods or other nonsensical restrictions, including limits on the number of guns someone may purchase during a single month. These are restrictions which turn a right into a government-regulated privilege, and if you want to attract men back to the party, stop treating them like second-class citizens.
“Young male voters don’t respond well to complaints about their so-called ‘toxic masculinity,’ either,” Gottlieb noted. “They won’t support a party which treats them and their rights with contempt and hostility, and let’s face it, in its shift farther to the political left, the Democrat party has been doing all of these things with a degree of arrogance and disrespect that seems deliberately designed to alienate, rather than invite, the very people the party wants to attract.
“Male voters will not support a political party which does not wholeheartedly support their rights,” Gottlieb stated, “and that especially applies to their Second Amendment rights. If Democrats want to make male voters feel welcome, stop making them feel like criminals.”
This is probably pretty accurate. I know it’s why my oldest offspring has no affection for the Democratic Party. Why would he want to support people who demonize him at every opportunity and who stomp all over his rights because of it?
And it’s not just the right to keep and bear arms, either, though that’s certainly important. This is the same party that, while in power last time, started looking at how they could combat “misinformation” by pressuring social media companies to delete posts they didn’t like, much of which we now know to have been absolute fact.
Censorship is an ugly look, just as gun control.
The truth is that young men grew up in a world that didn’t respect them, which told them they were awful in every way, and which thinks they can’t be trusted on any level. That includes via things like gun control.
They want their rights. They want to be able to protect themselves and their families as they start them. They don’t want the people who called them everything but decent human beings getting a say in how they do that, either.
If Democrats want to start winning back young men, backing off on gun control is a massive first step.
Of course, I don’t see them doing that. They don’t want to upset the gravy train that is financial support from gun control groups like Everytown, Giffords, Brady, and the like. They are, as they often pronounce about their opponents, bought and paid for, and they’re intending to stay bought.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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