The Resurgent founder Erick Erickson went on a Twitter rant about how liberals and conservatives respond to mass shootings. For the most part, Erickson’s observations are fairly true: conservatives cling to their guns, their faith and their God. Liberals, on the other hand, cling to government and government policy to solve all of their problems.
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/915282480961327104
2. When it is a white guy, the left starts talking gun control and the right insists it is too soon.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
3. I don’t care. We are not going to stop talking politics and people are going to politicize these things.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
4. What I do notice is that we all tend to turn to the thing we believe in the most in times of tragedy.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
5. Conservatives tend to first go to God and liberals tend to first go to government.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
6. But what is frustrating about the gun issue is that so many people opposed to gun rights have taken no time to understand them.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
7. People opposed to gun laws just make crap up, e.g. it is easier to buy a gun than vote. No it isn’t.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
8. If you want to have a conversation about new gun laws, at least be honest about what there is now and whether a new one would stop stuff
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
9. And unfortunately, the desire to “just do something” rare actually accomplishes anything other than burdening people.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
10. But the fact is gun rights activists can point to an explicit constitutional provision and abortion activists cannot.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
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11. So if you want to push gun laws and gun regulations, don’t ignore that a constitutional amendment is a necessity for real restrictions.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
12. Lastly, given the utter bizarreness of this particular shooting and how much doesn’t fit…
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
13. This one might actually be a good one to wait before talking policy and politics. Lots of unknowns outstanding.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2017
One of Erickson’s followers did, however, have issues with his analysis.
No, what is necessary is an honest reading of the 2nd Amendment which itself refers to well regulated. Was intended to provide for militias.
— David Cain (@MDavidCPA) October 3, 2017
But Erickson’s response was on point. And completely undebatable.
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/915285798387376129
Liberals, if you’re going to try to act like the Second Amendment doesn’t exist, do us all a favor and go back to high school history class, will ya?