Posted on 09/22/2023 8:34:18 AM PDT by rellimpank
Standing in the shadow of a gigantic net from the Topgolf facility next door, the nondescript XCAL building in Ashburn, Virginia, resembles any of the number of corporate offices in the area. Inside, however, there are several shooting ranges, including a tactical range, a fitness center, a martial arts dojo, and a restaurant serving bar-and-grill fare such as burgers, wings, and tacos.
I was there a few weeks ago for Range Day. The annual event is the brainchild of Shermichael Singleton and John Keys, the co-founders and owners of Guns Out TV, a brand described as a “media company that aims to create educational, entertaining, and compelling content pertaining to firearms operation and ownership.” The event featured vendors, different firearms for attendees to shoot courtesy of XCAL and several firearms vendors, shooting contests, live podcasts, and giveaways. It also was just the latest indication of the changing face of gun ownership in America.
A popular liberal trope is that Republicans would back gun control if only more minorities started showing an interest in lawful gun ownership. The left-wing writer and TV pundit Wajahat Ali repeats some version of this regularly. Example: “My annual suggestion that a bunch of us brown and black and Muslim folks need to buy huge guns and peacefully march against gun control armed to the teeth wearing camo. This is the quickest way we will get sensible gun control in this country. It'll happen within weeks.”
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"The popularity of Range Day, Guns Out TV, and other such projects suggests otherwise. Singleton and Keys are black. And they are part of a clear trend."
They just can not get past the whole everything is RACE thing.
By and large, Shooters will accept ANYBODY that shares their values.
Except John brown gun club types. F*** those commie bastards.
How about stopping the lies. The “children” argument is a big fat lie.
Yup. A couple of lesbians came to my indoor range in San Diego. Clearly newbies who really wanted to learn to shoot well. It was time well spent helping them learn to safely and accurately shoot. The shared values were enjoyment of shooting the firearms we own not support of being lesbians. The goodwill generated with the training may well influence a vote for a pro gun politician in the future.
Whatsahat Alley needs a lesson on the Constitution!
Proving that they Leftist Democrats are the actual racists for thinking up the BS.
Democrats created Gun Control to disarm Black individuals they feared in the Mega-cities. Republicans want citizens to exercise their right to bear arms.
It is interesting to me that most liberals assume that the reason conservatives own guns is because they are afraid of non white people.
That is not the reason
“ It is interesting to me that most liberals assume that the reason conservatives own guns is because they are afraid of non white people.
That is not the reason”
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Among the major reasons for conservatives owning guns is that conservatives simply do not trust the government. Despite the fact that our own government has proven on numerous occasions over the last 90 years that it is in capable of being trusted, the very idea of not trusting government is unimaginable to leftist. They and reality are miles apart from each other.
As for me, I don’t trust any government. My family came to this country for the most part in the first quarter of the 20th century. They came from Russia and Poland, and between the Communists and the Nazis who ended up running those places over the next 25 years or so, and murdering over 75 of my distant relatives, I don’t trust any government. The simple fact is that none of my relatives, not those who were murdered, and not those who were effectively enslaved for three generations in Russia, had the means to say “no!“ To their governments. That right is inherent in nature, and specifically recognized and protected by the second amendment. Thank God for the Founding Fathers and the individualist-oriented country that they founded!
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