Are you guilty of a thought crime?

 Charles C. W. Cooke had an essay at the National Rifle Association's Americas 1st Freedom that asks Will the Second Amendment Soon Become a Thought Crime? He points out that the government has teamed up with mainstream media, social media, big tech, and powerful corporations to enforce the narratives they choose. The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law, but the government has found a way around that.

If you think that the American media’s relentless attacks on the right to keep and bear arms represent a credible threat to the Second Amendment now, just wait until they come to realize that, instead of merely proselytizing against your rights, they can turn your support for them into a “thought crime.”

Over the last few years, politicians from a handful of states have gotten into the bad habit of teaming up with the media, academia, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and key parts of corporate America, and of using the remarkable power of their alliance to contrive and promulgate political narratives that, even a few weeks earlier, had been on virtually nobody’s radar. In 2017, this team brought us the Trump-Russia Collusion hoax, which started as a salacious and unsubstantiated rumor but quickly became all Washington, D.C., was interested in talking about. That fake narrative was broadcast during every news program; it was conveyed during a lot of professional sports telecasts; it was featured in corporate press releases; it was appended to the splash pages and login forms of widely used websites; it was woven into the algorithms of streaming services and search engines and online stores. Its scope, in short, was astonishing.

This could also happen with guns and our Second Amendment rights. And when such an orchestrated effort comes, they will work overtime to make it just as all-consuming. They’ve already been trying. Every time a mass-murderer attacks—almost always in a so-called “gun-free” zone—the same cabal of media, entertainment personalities and politicians who want to disarm America’s armed citizens try to create a feverish movement to force through gun bans and more.

Cooke believes that the only reason the unholy alliance has not had the same effect on guns that it has had on the other issues mention such as the Trump Russia hoax is that gun owners are organized. But he also thinks that we must be ever vigilant. The Democrats want to neutralize the Second Amendment in the worst sort of way, and will not stop. Just as the worked for 60 some years to put socialized medicine in place, they will keep trying to take away our guns.

Gentle readers are encouraged to read the entire essay. Think about the shape that the government will take next to make you a serf instead of a citizen. Note that the Republicans will be of no help unless we can show them they owe gun owners their positions. Oh, and it would be nice if we could get government to stop doing through private companies what the Constitution forbids them from doing.