People have a right to say and believe whatever they like. They have a right to dedicate themselves to whatever causes they choose. That’s what freedom means, after all.
What they don’t have is the right for taxpayers to fund their efforts.
Sure, sometimes that’s going to happen, but that doesn’t make it right, especially on a contentious issue such as gun rights and gun control.
Right now, Minnesota is the epicenter of the gun debate. A high-profile shooting like what happened in Minneapolis will do that. However, while the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus is fighting on that front, they’re also fighting on another.
They’re tired of taxpayer money funding the University of Minnesota Law School’s “Gun Violence Prevention Clinic.”
This clinic has:
- Defended unconstitutional gun control laws in court.
- Sued lawful businesses like Fleet Farm and Glock to bankrupt the firearms community.
- Exploited recent tragedies in Minnesota to push for sweeping gun bans.
- Trained a new generation of anti-gun lawyers committed to dismantling the Second Amendment.
The leader of this clinic even argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that cities should be able to ban all handguns—a position already rejected in Heller and McDonald.
At the above link is a form people can fill out to let their voices be heard. Everyone, especially those of you in Minnesota, needs to step up and make sure they hear them.
The truth of the matter is that these various “centers” in academia are universally anti-gun. They never find any case where gun rights are a good thing, despite the fact that millions of Americans have defended themselves with a firearm. They’ve actively engaged in lawfare against the gun industry and pushed for legislation that curtails the rights of ordinary Americans, but notice what they don’t do.
You never see them call for tougher sentencing for criminals. They never call for an end to cashless bail, or offer support for Broken-Window policing that was shown to cause a massive drop in New York City’s violent crime rate.
They never seem to back any of the programs that actually reduce violent crime but leave law-abiding citizens alone.
Why is that?
Could it be that it doesn’t serve the purposes of the academic overlords who push this crap?
I’m sorry, but the taxpayers shouldn’t be funding this. It shouldn’t be using the money people are forced to pay, all in an effort to undermine what remains of their right to keep and bear arms. People shouldn’t have to fund an entity that is actively trying to harm them.
We might not have a choice when it’s the government we’re forced to fund, but a blatantly anti-gun entity is a bridge too far for any sane, rational person to accept.
Minnesota needs to stop.
Other states need to stop, too.
Everyone needs to knock this crap off.
If gun control has the massive support proponents claim, then let them fund these entities outright. Don’t put the taxpayers on the hook to pay for it. If there’s not enough funding, well, that tells you quite a bit, doesn’t it?
Folks in Minnesota have a lot going on right now. They don’t need their tax dollars pushing an agenda that has nothing to do with what’s constitutional and what isn’t.
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