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Young guys looking to effect real change should study the most effective right-wing movement in America by far: the gun rights movement.
As recently as 30 years ago, gun control was the law of the land. The NRA and other gun rights activists successfully changed this via intense lobbying. They got organized, helped elect pro-gun politicians in every state, and in turn those politicians rolled back gun restrictions and got both concealed carry and open carry laws through. The gun rights organizations also got pro-gun, right-wing judges appointed at every level, enabling pro-gun legislation to be upheld on appeal.
In 1986, the overwhelming majority of states either banned concealed carry outright or operated on "may-issue" systems that allowed county officials to arbitrarily deny permits. (I was once refused a pistol permit in a certain blue city because I requested one for self-defense; I later learned that the county DA had an explicit policy of denying permits on this basis.) In 1994, Bill Clinton rammed the federal assault weapons ban through Congress, one of the reasons why the Republican Revolution happened two months later.
Fast forward. In 2004, both President Bush and the Republican Congress refused to reauthorize the federal weapons ban. The majority of states had switched to "shall-issue" concealed carry permitting (i.e. they HAVE to give it to you if you meet clear and constitutional requirements), including strongly blue states like Oregon and Minnesota.
In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court struck down handgun bans in Chicago, D.C., and other blue jurisdictions. The 2008 Heller decision defined the Second Amendment as protecting individual gun ownership (as opposed to the libtard concern trolling that it only applies to "militias") and the 2010 McDonald decision overturned gun control laws on the basis of the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause (aka states can be prosecuted by the federal government for violating individual gun rights).
By 2016, the last two states where concealed carry was banned---Illinois and Wisconsin---had been forced to adopt shall-issue permitting and other states were beginning to abolish permitting entirely in favor of unrestricted concealed carry. By 2022, nearly half of all states had unrestricted concealed carry laws. That was the same year that the Supreme Court struck down New York's may-issue permitting, forcing even blue states to adopt shall-issue laws.
There are still gun control laws that need to be abolished (like "red flag" laws, raising the age one can legally purchase a gun from 18 to 21, and stuff like New York's SAFE Act), but gun rights' activists have made IMMENSE progress since the 80s. Even the Democrats have had to move to the right on gun control in some respects; note that neither Obama or Biden were able to reinstitute the assault weapons ban that expired under Bush. The last major gun control push was in the wake of Sandy Hook; since then, Americans have become immune to libtards' attempts to weaponize mass shootings in order to strip us of our rights.
Imagine if gun owners had behaved like the Retard Right back in the 70s and 80s. "There's no difference between left and right. The uniparty hates the Second Amendment. Even Texas doesn't respect gun rights." We would absolutely have British- or Australian-style gun control laws today. The modern gun control movement evolved out of the libtard feeding frenzy that followed the JFK and RFK assassinations. Their long march through this particular institution was halted and reversed by the tireless work of patriots. Now we have President Trump advocating for national concealed carry; unthinkable even a decade ago.
The gun rights movement succeeds because it is ruthlessly pragmatic. It has the lowest time preference out of all right-wing movements. It engages in the boring-but-necessary work of grassroots activism, legislative lobbying, and legal defense. A decade ago, I attended a conservative activist training seminar hosted by Aaron Dorr, the then-president of Iowa Gun Owners, and was genuinely impressed by his vision, methods, and accomplishments. Dorr later became president of New York Gun Owners and played a critical role in the Bruen Supreme Court decision.
If you want to succeed in politics, don't listen to influencers and podcasters. Listen to the gun lobby. They actually get things done.
Got what I voted for...AGAIN.
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
JUST IN: President Trump reveals his administration is working on NATIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY This would be an absolutely HUGE step towards bringing back the true meaning of the Second Amendment LFG! Keep pushing for this, POTUS!
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