American Firearms Association Attacks Firearms Policy Coalition for Siding with the Cultural Left

Towards the end of August, the Firearms Policy Coalition got itself embroiled in a controversy with regards to an incident that involved several armed Antifa activists guarding a drag queen event for children in Roanoke, Texas, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
 
The Antifa footsoldiers brandished firearms in order to intimidate protesters and carve out a de facto lefrtist statelet in a county (Denton County) that went 53% to 45% to Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential elections.
 
What was particularly curious about this incident was the response it generated from the Right. Scott Greer, the host of the Highly Respected podcast, pulled up a Reddit thread covering this incident that was titled “2A is for everyone, always has been.”  Greer himself tweeted, “Sad to say, but the gun rights community's main goal now seems to be encouraging their enemies to arm up. It's what happens when you base your identity on nothing more than an inanimate object--not culture or heritage.”
 
 The Firearms Policy Coalition, a nominally pro-Second Amendment organization, responded with its own tweet. It tweeted, “They’re fundamental rights of all humans, which means even people who disagree with you must be able to exercise it, you authoritarian dumbfuck.”
 
The American Firearms Association, headed by the Dorr brothers —Aaron, Ben, and Chris —, quickly responded to this incident in an email released on August 30, 2022. Needless to say, AFA were not fans of this drag queen event. 
 
AFA described the Antifa goons and the drag queens “corrupt and degenerate forces that are attacking our families, freedom and firearms.” AFA made it clear that they’re firmly opposed to FPC’s stance on Antifa’s use of armed individuals to defend a degenerate drag show. 
 
AFA laid this out below:
 

We believe, as our Founders Fathers believed and articulated in America's founding documents, that any movement to defend and advance the freedoms and the rights of the individual MUST have a moral component to it. 

As John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
 
FPC has gained notoriety for reaching out to the cultural Left, which AFA put on blast:
 

For a gun rights organization like FPC to promote, propagate and defend Communist Antifa, 'doctors' killing babies, the LGBT political agenda, porn actresses and drag queens grooming our little kids, it is ridiculously perverse and we are 100% OPPOSED to their ideology.

Ultimately, AFA believes that walking “this ideological and politically liberal route is to play right into the hands of the very people who want to enslave us, who want our families torn apart, who want our firearms taken away and who want America destroyed.”
 
AFA concluded its email with a statement highlighting its commitment to fighting “this corrupt and debauched agenda” and how they “will never compromise our mission, our morality or our American principles.” 
 
I agree with AFA here. Let’s be real, folks... Leftist groups that are supporting the Second Amendment are doing so for tactical reasons, not out of principles.
 
They are supporting the right to bear arms as a means to an end. Once the Left is in power, it will invariably use the state to deprive its enemies of their right to bear arms. 

The Second Amendment community tends to be on the Right, especially on cultural matters. Indeed there are more centrist and even left-leaning individuals on cultural issues in the pro-gun space. Nevertheless, they’re not in the majority.
 
Second Amendment advocates should avoid appealing to the Left as much as possible. Constant pandering to the Left will invariably alienate many of the right-wing constituencies that form a pillar of the Second Amendment community.


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