With a cool head
The next day, as the curtain falls on a long election night and an even longer and more exhausting campaign, there are those who celebrate and those who look bitterly at the sunrise. As for us at Firearms United - Italy and our federated association UNARMI - Directive Committee 477, we can only see that it has come true for the umpteenth time since 2015: the #legalidetentoridiarmi in #Italia made their voices heard, taking aim together with their most powerful weapon - that of voting - and using it in a coordinated for the defense of their #rights and their prerogatives, as they had never done before. The vote of the Italian #armigeri has heavily influenced the policies of 2018, the regional ones, the referendums (and the collection of signatures for them). And it is the case that the #politicaitaliana catches the signal.
A non-partisan approach
Once again we must underline how we would have gladly done without giving endorsements or voting indications to any party, and how we would have shown ourselves available to work with ANY party and / or majority, if we had not been in front of a wall erected by those who have made the war on #armilegali an ideological pillar of their political action. Those who have followed and supported us for the longest time will surely remember how, in the early days, the Firearms United Network had adopted a de facto non-partisan approach, focusing on a transversal action that aimed to build bridges towards all political alignments to protect rights. of #armidafuoco, #hunting and #tirosportivo enthusiasts in Italy and throughout # Europe in the long term and regardless of the varying government majorities. If that approach is history, we owe it only to those who publicly boast of "building bridges, not walls", but in reality have raised barricades against us and against our legitimate objections, with well-documented actions, since the times of the # EUGunBan, not to mention everything that happened after, both at the #EU and national level.
Attacks of an ideological nature
If the parties of the line-up today came out soundly beaten in the elections - no doubt also thanks to the votes of our # community, evidently more compact and numerically important than other #minorities that they consider more relevant and / or worthy of protection - they will understand that science ( "Security and legality", the first scientific investigation on weapons legally owned by Italians, by Sapienza University of Rome) has proved without fear of denial that ours is the most reliable category in the country; that the attacks of an ideological nature and the support for the #antiarmi and #anticaccia movements can only damage them; and that now, unlike what happened in the past, we vote with full knowledge of the facts… then, perhaps, things will change.
Signals to be received
If we receive signals - to be verified in the facts - from the political forces towards which we have expressed negative opinions, of an abandonment of hostility regardless of our #category (with a commitment at least to stop the propaganda against us and not to support or propose more restrictive measures, at national or EU level), then no one more than us will be happy to give our followers total freedom of conscience and vote at the next electoral rounds, and no one more than us will be happy to contribute to the necessary reform - in a simplifying and obviously liberalizing sense - of the laws on Italian weapons, excessively complex and above all excessively restrictive for what are the application capacities of the Public Administration and for what are the real public security needs of the country. Otherwise, what has happened punctually on the occasion of the electoral rounds of the last five years will continue to repeat itself. The ball now, politicians, is in your half. You have seen what happens to pay attention to a social category whose reliability is scientifically proven, and what happens instead to wanting to make a scapegoat and a victim of constant abuse for pure ideology. Make your choices.