Being an American gun owner means that something perfectly legal yesterday can become a felony that gets you raided by armed men on a hair trigger. Not uncommonly resulting in your death.
Normal people bought guns, from federally licensed dealers, with pistol braces on them. We came THIS close to all of them becoming felons, with no recourse.
Better yet, it often happens by accident, or because of bad information. Youβre not even the one who ran afoul of a law. The cops just fuck it up. The police mistook Duncan Lempβs perfectly legal Tavor for a full-auto... for some reason? And shot him to death in his bed.
Tate Adamiak sat in prison for years because an informant just made shit up, and the ATF decided to keep rolling with it.
There are, without drama or hysterics, very few other entire groups of people where the mere act of existing can bring rapid and violent death or long-term imprisonment. Regardless of social or economic class, race, gender, location, age, or sexuality.
Beyond that, we have all the other hallmarks of every other oppressed minority group. Entire political parties campaign on our erasure. Basically the entire world outside of the US with few exceptions view us as a disgusting plague full of backwards people that the entire planet would be better off with us gone.
Police will often shoot you just for being armed, regardless of circumstance, sometimes even after YOU called them.
So what's the argument we aren't?