"Your Ignorance is showing"

Politics
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I was scrolling through twitter/X when the assassination attempt on former President Trump happened on Saturday. I have been locked onto the app since them and what is coming out lately is really sad/discouraging from so many in our nation. There are many threads to this, but one I wanted to bring up here is the ignorance so many on the left or those who seem to be left have about shooting & .223 AR platform rifles.

The first comments I started seeing were that the attempt was staged. I don’t care how narcisstic a person is, who is letting anyone shoot at them from 150 yards. The idea of it is ludicrous. Do people not understand how difficult it is to hit a tiny target at 150 yards… a moving target at that? There is no way this is staged. I am so dumbfounded by those who think this is a rational thought.

The second is that a AR rifle does incalculable damage to a body, so much so that DNA tests are required to identified someone struck by an AR15. Please don’t correct my language usage, I am repeated what I read.

I am so saddened that so many Americans have such polarized opinions on something they CLEARLY understand little to nothing about.

Rather than hate and tear down these folks, does anyone have a thought on how we move forward with how to educate? I am teaching those around me, but my circle of influence is really small, but I am willing to do more if someone knows of a way.

Thanks

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Wish i had a great answer.

I remember at the time of the Vegas shooting, the Hearing Protection Act was in congress. It would take suppressors off of the NFA list and treat them like regular firearms.

Well after the shooting several prominent politicians on the left were saying that if the shooter had used suppressors, nobody would have known where he was shooting from.

Anyone who has been anywhere near a suppresed AR shooting knows that’s blatantly false. Yet nobody in the MSM called those falsehoods out.

The HPA died quickly.

I’d love to see a YT channel dedicated to informing the pubic about firearms, but leaving the politics of "my rights " out. Thus people can see how ignorant some of the laws, and proposed laws are.

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Those already exist, heck some even lean to the left. I don’t think you can call stuff like FW, Bloke on the Range, and C&Rsenal even remotely political.

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Wasn’t aware of those particular channels. We’ll have to check them out.

Thanks