A reminder from David Codrea at Ammoland that Democrats Fleeing 'Socialism' Bringing Anti-gun Politics With Them. I had experience of this years ago when we first moved from Virginia to North Carolina. We had a house warming party and invited all the neighbors. One neighbor, who owned a working farm used a shot gun to kill a fox who was harassing his cattle. Note that the farm was more than 5 acres, and shot guns have limited range. One woman thought the police should stop him. I personally thought if the woman didn't like our neighbor shooting at foxes, she should have not moved there.
The same phenomenon happened when people started moving out along the route between Washington, DC and Dulles Airport. The airport was there first, by many years. Still, the newcomers demanded that the airport change its routes and times so they could sleep at night. It is the same thing that happens when enough Muslims come into an area. They demand the laws change to Sharia.
Codrea writes:
Who thinks an influx of hypocritical Democrats into these states, voters who don’t want to personally “pay their fair share” (their terminology, not mine) for the type of government they demand, will work out well for gun owners?
We’ve seen what happened in Colorado. We can see what’s happening all over the country in an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, which blindly opines:
“Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee were the biggest net winners from interstate migration, while California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts were the biggest net losers.”
Codrea concludes with a passage from the Bible about the two sons of Isaac, Jacob and Esau:
It’s all reminiscent of the story of Esau, who traded his birthright for a mess of pottage. And what’s not being factored in by these migrating Democrats is when their new nests become as fouled as the ones they abandoned, there will be no safe haven to fly to.
If your only value is short-term financial gains, they may have a point. But long-term losses from increasingly strident collectivist demands – not just on incomes but on essential freedoms like the right of the people to keep and bear arms – are predictable.
I frankly do not know what is to be done about it. Living in NC, I have encountered New Yorkers who both are conservative and love guns, and those who are here to escape taxes, but want to impose those same taxes on us, and oh by the way, want to get rid of guns. Perhaps they should take classes on what it means to be a citizen before they can vote?
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