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Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.
Harmeet Kaur
February 1, 2026
Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members
Surely, everyone can see this will result in making it easier to eliminate the infringements on our 2nd Amendment rights. Some people will be concerned of increased odds for violent civil war. What they probably don’t realize is that once someone becomes a gun owner there is increased rate of those people leaving the political left.
I see this as a minor increase in risk with tremendous potential for good.
As with their view of all natural rights, the left believe it should be enjoyed only by them.
Firearm ownership will be restricted to the correct thinking people
The same holds true for speech and assembly.
Well, the eponymous inspiration for the John Brown Gun Club deliberately set out to provoke a civil war and he succeeded. You may have a bit of normalcy bias here.
Those are excellent points.
What may be different in this case is that the RKBA was not really in question 167 years ago. Today it is. New gun owners will have contact with a different set of people as they exercise that right. When the leftist gun owners start associating with non-leftist in the gun culture they tend to become “woke” in a different fashion.
“What they probably don’t realize is that once someone becomes a gun owner there is increased rate of those people leaving the political left.
I see this as a minor increase in risk with tremendous potential for good.”
From your lips to God’s ear, but I think you’re being overly optimistic.
You are correct, I have a strong tendency to be an optimist. Let’s watch and see what the trend is. Do tensions continue to rise or do they fall? We should know in a few months. Summers are when tension/protests usually increase. So, I expect some “natural” increase. If the increase is small or there is a decrease by early August perhaps my hypothesis is correct. If things get really spicey, then I will retire to my underground bunker in Idaho and admit I was wrong.