Thread: Kiwi Gun Blog

Originally Posted by Solo

As a mouthpiece for responsible gun owners, I feel it stumbles whenever it strays into lazy right-wing attitudes. Just now I'm reading an article where it calls NZ schools "socialist indoctrination centres". I understand the frustration with anti-gun activists, and it feels good to slag off those who disagree with you, but I think calling them "cuck" is also heading down the wrong kind of rabbit hole.

We live in a world that has grown more and more tolerant of people different from ourselves, and in New Zealand we are often at the front of the queue when it comes to social progress. We should not be encouraging the anti-gun crowd to stereotype gun owners as regressive bigots.

A lot of the anti-gun attitude is formed out of ignorance. Ignorance leads to fear. What we should be doing (and what a lot of us are doing) is offering, in a non-confrontational way, to share our knowledge and educate people, to defeat that ignorance and abate the fears. By appearing combative and intolerant, we as gun owners close ourselves off to the outside world, and they remain ignorant and afraid.

That said, I appreciate the research and investigation that goes into writing the articles, and find that it is a useful source of information. I just wish it would take a more academic approach to presenting it.

I reckon the language used is born out of pure frustration with people that view shooters with utter contempt.