The Gun Rights Movement is Not Violent
By Laura Burgess. January 24, 2021
January 19, 2021 - On the eve of a Presidential inauguration that will take place behind unprecedented security after our Nation's Capital Building was attacked by a small band of violent and destructive rioters, several leaders with the gun rights movement feel it is important to make this clear.
Since the incursion that temporarily interrupted the certification of the Presidential Election on January 6th, some journalists, media pundits, anti-gun activists and even a small number of elected officials have attempted to tie the Gun Rights Movement to the reprehensible acts that lead to deaths that day and fear of further violence this week. These claims are unfounded.
No gun rights organization or recognized leader called for violence on January 6th.
Political Violence goes against the heart of the gun rights movement. The Second Amendment protects gun rights in order to provide for defense. The gun community has denounced violence tied to protests throughout 2020, as we also condemn the violence and destruction of property at the US Capitol in January 6th without equivocation.
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"It should also be noted that there is only one political cause that unites all gun owners: Gun Rights. No action being undertaken that day at the Capitol was specifically related to gun rights. The violent mob were only a very small percentage of the people gathered in DC for political purposes that day. They were certainly not us."
