We have just had the two largest decades of legal immigration in our history. Over 27 million legal permanent immigrants entered during the period 1990-2010.
Posted on 12/13/2014 9:16:26 AM PST by Q-ManRN
Survey results made public Wednesday by Pew Research Center show public support for protecting gun rights on the rise across all demographics except for two notable categories, “liberal Democrats” and “Hispanics.” [A]ttitudes expressed by Hispanics show overwhelming rejection of pro-gun political sentiment. With only 25 percent favoring laws protecting the right to own guns, 71 percent want government to “control ownership.” That tracks with warnings issued by Gun Owners of America, curiously alone among national gun rights advocacy groups. GOA has warned that amnesty for illegal aliens, and a "pathway to citizenship," will provide for millions of new anti-gun voters with the electoral clout to undo all hard-won legislative and judicial gains gun owners have enjoyed in recent years. With other gun groups justifying their inaction to take on amnesty under the “single issue” excuse that it's not directly about guns... If holdout gun organizations neither make politicians accountable for amnesty support, nor make the developing political gun rights threat known to their members, most gun owners may remain unaware, uninformed and unconvinced until it’s too late for them to seek political solutions.
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2nd Amendment & illegal immigration ping.
What a SURPRISE !!!
Criminals and lawbreakers here illegally who mooch and steal don’t want their victims to be armed.
We have just had the two largest decades of legal immigration in our history. Over 27 million legal permanent immigrants entered during the period 1990-2010.
GOP leaders know the enormous threat to our rights and the future of the Republic as we know it...but they still went for it...the likes Boehner and his cronies are absolute scum!
How soon they forget the Magnificent Seven.
I think the poll is shallow - as amnesty plays out, if it plays out, more and more whites will leave the ranks of the gun control group and liberalism altogether.
This has already started. The Democrats are trying to find 10 million new voters - without realizing they may send 20 million of their current voters away.
Do the illegal immigrants even acknowledge that it was Barack Obama who was gun running arms to the narcoterrorists who they fear in their home country?
Do they think that the corrupt government would be less corrupt/abusive if the citizens there were unarmed?
Instead of pandering to a liberal agenda, Perhaps Pew should have taken their poll among those of us of Hispanic ancestry here in Texas, especially outside of the anthills-they would have gotten a result that would have sent them scurrying. Frontier rules are the norm here, no matter what your ethnicity might be...
Go back , where their country didn’t have a Constitution ,they’d be much Happier, Just like in their own Country.
Yeah ,,,Righhhhhhhhhhhht.
Take it from one who knows-in Mexico, everyone has guns, in or outside the cities-it is a dangerous place-and the favorite ways to grab illegals here in BFE is when they go to a gun shop-which they do as soon as they find one outside a city...
For “illegal aliens” think “Mexican citizens”.
Their reason for fearing legal guns goes back to two horrific and bloody civil wars, one at the start of the 19th Century, and the other at the start of the 20th Century.
Going back even further, Mexico and countries south of there suffer from “Old Europe disease”, which still afflicts them today. It is the feudal outlook, that there are only two classes of people: the rich and powerful, and the poor peasants.
This really hurts people and leaves long lasting hatreds.
In Europe it is why dog licenses for large dogs are incredibly expensive, because before, only the rich and powerful could own large dogs.
But back to the point. The only people who could have guns in old Mexico were the wealthy and the banditos, later revolutionaries. And both the government of the wealthy, and the banditos, were utterly savage to the peasants not loyal to them.
Many times, a large group of peasants would be met by men on horseback, who would demand to know who’s side they were on. Any who answered incorrectly would be killed on the spot.
In any event, it resulted in cultural trauma to most Mexicans. And guns are part of the focus to that trauma.
HOWEVER, (and a big however), Mexicans are flexible enough to learn better. While those newly entering the US are still very frightened of things like the murderous drug cartels, once they adapt to the US, and understand that “guns are for the people, not just the ‘masters’, the rich people”, things will change.
This is why gun liberty organizations need to make a serious and extended push to convince Hispanics to join the rest of us as legal gun owners. And for the same reasons that we have guns.
Of course this means Hispanics who are citizens, not illegal aliens. But if the government waves its wand and makes the illegals, legal, then gun rights organizations should be “Johnny on the spot” to teach them about gun rights and liberties. An outreach of enormous size, not just to men, but also to women.
Right now it is a problem, but it soon could be an opportunity. All it takes is to change minds.
But...but, if we just stick to our guns and keep voting GOP, things will eventually turn around. /s
LEGAL IMMIGRATION will make the Dems the permanent majority party. Amnesty just hastens the process—but not by much. And an amnesty will cost $6.3 trillion.
This is correct. Mexicans in particular are anti-gun.
You cannot take away our rights by bringing in illegal aliens, unassimilated to America, to vote for your socialist tyrannical state. Any votes after 2014 are, in my view, illegitimate until Americans reinstate the Constitution. At some point, there will have to be a mass exodus, either of Americans or of non-Americans. Some Americans may have to leave, too. We don’t need commies or their enablers, and we don’t need muslims, those who practice that faith. There is a precedent; loyalists had to leave after the Revolution. If we are forced into another similar battle, and win, one consequence will be to redefine who gets to stay. No more traitors.
We don't need this in our country. Can you imagine any American at any point in history referring to an employer this way? It's why we are indomitable, or used to be.
“El patron” means “the boss”. If I hire someone to do yard work, I’m not his boss, I’m his customer. It’s a business transaction, no more that that.
Strange.....
Some of these conservative movie producers should do a film about just the history you describe. An epic saga about families of Mexican peasants and their persecution by the elite. It would appeal to their heritage, destroy the guns-are-bad myth and if made well and marketed right could be a hit with the Hispanic community.
I’ve told people about the million plus LEGAL immigrants admitted into the Unites States per year and people don’t believe it, because, they maintain, our leaders are not that stupid.
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