With many in both the Democratic party and the so-called “mainstream” media lamenting the fact that male voters are vacating left-leaning party in droves, one major gun-rights organizations is giving the hand-wringers a little much-needed advice.
According to a Reuters Report, Democrats are searching for a solution to their young male problem.
“The Democratic Party has made no secret of the need to reconnect with young male voters, a demographic that drifted toward Republican Donald Trump in the last U.S. presidential election and will be key in the 2026 midterms,” the report stated. “But a year before the elections that will determine who controls the U.S. Congress, the party has yet to land on a central strategy to do so, according to interviews with a dozen party strategists, officials and left-leaning influencers.”
Providing a little help to hapless party leaders, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said the best way to attract male voters is to “stop pushing legislation aimed at eroding their Second Amendment right.”
“A large percentage of male voters are gun owners,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said in a news release on the matter, “and they are tired of being penalized for crimes they didn’t commit, and being threatened with even more restrictions simply because they choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
As Gottlieb further explained, male voters are not going to give up their rights just to make Democrats “feel good about themselves.”
“They are not going to make friends with a party whose agenda includes trampling on their personal liberty, and that includes owning firearms,” he said. “Democrats seem to forget that exercising the right to own a gun does not require getting permission from the government. Rights are not subject to expensive training requirements, waiting periods or other nonsensical restrictions, including limits on the number of guns someone may purchase during a single month. These are restrictions which turn a right into a government-regulated privilege, and if you want to attract men back to the party, stop treating them like second-class citizens.”
Ultimately, as Gottleib also noted, young male voters don’t respond well to complaints about their so-called “toxic masculinity.”
“They won’t support a party which treats them and their rights with contempt and hostility, and let’s face it, in its shift farther to the political left, the Democrat party has been doing all of these things with a degree of arrogance and disrespect that seems deliberately designed to alienate, rather than invite, the very people the party wants to attract,” Gottliebe concluded. “Male voters will not support a political party which does not wholeheartedly support their rights, and that especially applies to their Second Amendment rights. If Democrats want to make male voters feel welcome, stop making them feel like criminals.”
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