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I have just stopped following the Associated Calibers Podcast Facebook group.
Unfriended a couple of people there too.
The constant warnings about what will happen if someone actually exercises their rights and how that will doom us all was old back when Miggy still lived near Miami.
I'm sick to death of people who're supposedly all about freedom and liberty balking at the idea that you can exercise your freedoms in a manner they wouldn't.
Apparently, I did not get the memo that I was supposed to stop liking things that they disliked.
Case in point is a couple of people open carrying at the local sheriff and seeing if the sheriff will break the law and harass them.
The cries of doom that this is not helping are, almost literally, insane.
But; is it actually hurting?
Because they cited Texas as a place where open carrying at people hurt gun rights in Texas. They do not, of course, cite any examples.
They cite California as an example of a place where open carrying hurt gun rights in California. They alluded to an example that I recognized. Sped up the process is probably what happened rather than caused open carry of long guns to be banned.
We get the internet here in Florida too, you know, we can use our choice of search engine to check on what happened after people open carried in front of cameras.
I keep having to make this post because they don't seem to remember that what they're scared of never happens. Isn't odd that it's so often in October?
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| Green: Permitless; Yellow: Permit Required/Restricted; Red: Forbidden |
Compare that map with the one from 2019. I'll help you out and tell you that the only place that got worse in the past six years was California. California gets worse without triggering events, so we can't use them as a barometer of what causes things to get worse elsewhere.
Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island stayed the same with their restrictions.
But look at all the states where it got better!
Despite Open Carry Texas.
Despite Florida Carry's fishing events.
Despite the naysayers and gloomers.
You suck at this, stop making predictions.
I was always a little dubious about OCT, but in the long run they certainly didn't make things worse and eventually they got pretty much everything they were working for. They apparently understood that it is a long term game more than most people. To a certain extent maybe the biggest impact they had was being the lightning rod for negative attention which helped other people get the work done without getting struck.
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