Anti-Gunners Have a New Target to Hate: Charities!

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Imagine being so unhinged you’d stop donations going to a children’s hospital because you didn’t like how the funds were raised.

For gun banners, that’s not a thought exercise–it’s their everyday reality. Imagine taking every single social interaction and weighing it based on whether it conforms to your political party’s platform. For anti-gunners, that’s how they have to live or else they face being cancelled and eaten alive by their fellow true believers. Imagine shaving your head, cutting off your family and friends, and threatening to murder innocent people who just happen to have the wrong skin color because your party’s presidential candidate lost. For anti-gunners, that’s just another Thursday.

As you’re imagining this, please remember that there is a checklist for whether or not a given organization is a cult. Here’s a good one:

1. Absolute authoritarianism without accountability
2. Zero tolerance for criticism or questions
3. Lack of meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget
4. Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions
5. A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave
6. Abuse of members
7. Records, books, articles, or programs documenting the abuses of the leader or group
8. Followers feeling they are never able to be “good enough”
9. A belief that the leader is right at all times
10. A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation

And on that note, we’ll turn the shocking story of how a group of anti-gunners are trying to put a stop to charity fundraisers in which guns are the prizes to the NSSF. 

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Gun Control’s Targeting of Firearm Fundraising is Off Target

By Art Thomm

The 2024 General Election is now over and as the nation, states and local municipalities prepare for new representation, it appears “woke,” left-leaning lobbying groups have taken to attacking nonprofit organizations in an ill-focused attempt to gain new support.

A recent article posted by an antigun group launched an attack on a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and well-being of children. Why? Because the charity hosted a fundraising event in which firearms were raffle prizes. They fail in their attempt to draw a nexus between charitable sportsmen’s fundraising and the criminal misuse of firearms, but they succeed in exposing the bias against lawful gun ownership.

As the article streamed details to portray a poor image of the demographic of attendees, it failed to highlight that the participants were law-abiding citizens, that tickets had to be purchased to participate and that a federal firearms license holder was on-site to ensure background checks were completed the same exact way they are completed at a firearms retailer.

Similar events, which are held for different nonprofit organizations across the nation, have raised millions of dollars to serve our communities. Whether it’s a local fire department, emergency services or nonprofit organizations, these groups do work to support our families, friends and neighbors.

This unwarranted attack raises questions, including why would you allow your political beliefs to attack people doing good for our communities? Does it feel good to sling attacks at an organization that offers medical care to children, totally free of charge should the family not have the means to pay? Would it be better to allow these children to live a life never knowing their full potential – free from the burdens of orthopedic challenges, severe burns or severe cleft lip or palate?

As long as it pushes your agenda, right?

While some may agree with their political position, it seems beyond reasonable to me that no one should ever attack charitable organizations that are trying to make a positive impact. These are organizations that are not politically postured in any way.  If you don’t like that fundraiser, don’t attend. My suggestion would be that instead of attempting to smear the good work they do, perhaps find another way to get involved in something you care about by volunteering or financially supporting a nonprofit organization.

The world has enough negativity right now. I sit and think about a 5-year-old little boy who has become a part of my life through my volunteering efforts. A child who had to have his leg amputated below the knee and even amid his challenges, his spirit and energy can light up a room. It’s through his determination, combined with the efforts of the charity, which I am proud to represent, that I’ve had the blessing of watching him run around like any other healthy child.

I simply wonder how someone can become so blinded by political hate that they would rather choose criticism and unnecessary attacks to raise funds against people who make such impressionable, life-changing opportunities come to fruition.

This isn’t about firearm safety, folks… it’s about choosing negativity and political weaponry over goodwill in our communities and it’s disappointing, to say the least.

I’ll proudly continue to volunteer and support people doing good work and I hope others will take this as a wake-up call to choose the high road, too.