by John Boch
At an interview last week with a young scholar who is destined to be one of tomorrow’s leaders, he asked me if there’s something I can say to people who are staunchly anti-gun to bring them around to support gun ownership for civilians. I laughed. I told him there’s nothing I can say that will change their mind on the spot. They, in many cases, have a closed mind and refuse to listen to logic or reason.
Two things can happen to bring them around. Either they have a come to Jesus moment where they are victimized or nearly victimized by a member of America’s criminal class, or something I say or a personal experience – like going shooting for the first time and taking some of the scary unknown away from how guns work – influences their thinking and over time they convince themselves that gun ownership is a good idea.
Eagles of Death frontman Jesse Hughes used to be a big promoter of gun control.
Until he had his “Come to Jesus” moment last November when his band played at the Bataclan nightclub in Paris.
Islamic terrorists strolled in and terrorized the occupants for a few hours before police stormed the place.
Ninety people were massacred by the terrorists, in part thanks to France’s strict gun control laws that ensured that the rabid terrorists were the only ones with guns.
Hughes figured that out after his near-death experience. It’s changed him to his soul. Hughes told an interviewer that Paris gun laws failed those people who died – and failed those who lived and saw the terror of that massacre first hand – and that those laws didn’t save any lives. “I think the only thing in me that changed is that until no one has guns, everyone should have one,” he said.
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