All The Gun Rights Black Pilling On the Trump DOJ’s 2A Record is a Massive Overreactionhttps://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/all-the-gun-rights-black-pilling-on-the-trump-dojs-2a-record-is-a-massive-overreaction/The results of the poll above is a small sample size, but it reflects something I hear a lot, and the majority is just wrong. This is the best administration on the Second Amendment since Reconstruction. That’s just objectively true.
No other administration has filed lawsuits (let alone multiple) to vindicate gun rights. And besides a lone amicus brief in Trump’s first term, no prior admin has filed amicus briefs to fight against state “assault weapons” bans, magazine bans, ammo background checks, sensitive places, etc.
If you are unhappy with the Trump administration on Second Amendment grounds, you basically fall into one of two camps…or both:
You expected the administration to not defend federal gun laws.
You live in a red state and have it pretty good already, so you undervalue how big a help they are to those of us behind enemy lines.
It was never reasonable to expect this administration to not defend existing federal laws. The DOJ choosing not to defend laws is relatively rare, and it’s a good thing that it is, when you take a longer-term view.
Example: Remember how much Biden and his administration hated the PLCAA? Yes, well the Biden DOJ still defended the law in court despite their hatred of it. Because it’s their job. I don’t want a Gavin Newsom DOJ deciding to not defend laws we like.
If the mention of now-Goobernor Noisome is obscure, it refers to his torpedoing Proposition 8, which defined marriage, in state courts and preventive opposition to advocates defending it instead.
I seldom find perfection-or-nothing stances convincing. That seems to be what's happening in the poll the artcile cites.
