Without Gaslighting and Projection,
Gun Prohibitionists Have Nothing

"Down the barrel of a gun," a USA Today headline begins. "How Second Amendment activism can be a gateway to extremist ideologies."

Collectors buy militaria at gun shows. Some of it is Nazi memorabilia. What better way to conflate patriots who believe in the government of limited enumeration of powers established "to secure the Blessings of Liberty" with "the extremist far-right"?

To emphasize the point, they call on a former "leader of the National Socialist Movement," apparently oblivious to the reality that being a national socialist has nothing to do with what the freedom-minded are about. And as much as latter-day collectivists try to distance themselves and project their hatred onto those who emphasize the rights of individuals over the powers of a centralized violence monopoly, they can only ignore and misdirect from the truth, they cannot obliterate it.

UK Liberal Party supporter George Watson definitively debunked those in his landmark Hitler and the Socialist Dream, documenting:

"It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too."

The attack piece goes on to use Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule and dismiss as unfounded "the fear that the government is intent on taking Americans' guns away," conveniently not exploring, let alone even mentioning, the numerous and publicized calls from prominent gun-grabbers to do just that (and don't tell us, moron, tell Beto). .....