Anti-liberty Cracktivists Buying Guns

D. Parker, in a post at the American Thinker today alerts us to the fact that the Leftists are Arming Up. He presents several articles in Leftist news organs that are pushing the fear of Trump and urging people to acquire guns. Never mind that all of the fascist tendencies and illegal activities are from those on the Left. They have been thoroughly indoctrinated that the American people want a dictator. We don't, of course. What we want is that the actual laws our representatives passed be faithfully executed and not twisted to take out political opponents. We want our tax dollars used for the benefit of the American people and not diverted into Leftist agendas.  We want actual fair trade, and to be able to buy things made right here.  Again, never mind these facts, the anti-liberty cracktivists are scared.

But Parker's real point is that we, for our part, don't pay enough attention to the language and the emotional message it sends. I am as guilty as everyone else. We often use the term "gun rights" for our right to own weapons for defense. But even that misses the point, which is our inherent human right to self defense. Just as any animal has a right to defend itself in the best way it can, so every human has a right to defend himself, and those in his care. We call that a "human right." In noting this, Parker makes reference to Mike McDaniel:

As Mike McDaniel phrases it, these are anti-liberty cracktivists. They aren’t “anti-gun.” No, liberty-hating leftists love their guns; they just don’t want us to have them. This is why they’ve added selective enforcement to their tyrannical repertoire, to take guns from their political opponents.

It’s human rights instead of “gun rights.” Using the term “gun rights” almost has a subliminal implication that guns have rights. Leftists have signs that play off this false impression, which say some variation of “protect kids, not guns.”

Thus, it’s much better to use the term “human rights” instead. That makes it clear what we are trying to protect. The authoritarians will talk all day against guns, but they wouldn’t dare say the same thing against human rights.

Indeed.