Posted on 06/13/2020 10:13:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Jim McCoy.
Progressives inhabiting the mainstream media, the Democratic Party and Hollywood continue to herald how the Covid-19 virus, tainted economy, condemnation from China, the racist police beating of innocent demonstrators, and the disunifying editorial from four star General James “Chaos” Mattis about our president, are harbingers of doom for the Trump administration and Republican candidates come election time. There is at least one strong indicator that may prove these liberal naysayers wrong about the effects the current schiff-storm may have at the ballot box in November.
John R. Lott, Jr. wrote in National Review that the “Police have stopped responding to many 911 calls, and massive numbers of inmates are being released early from prison.” During the past 14 days people have been rioting and vandalizing in the streets of America, including unlikely places like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Fifth Avenue in New York City and even Whitefish, Montana. From Florida to Utah and elsewhere around the country, something very interesting is happening in gun stores. Most gun stores receive new product orders on Friday afternoons. For the past month people have been lining up outside gun stores to purchase new weapons and ammunition first thing Saturday morning. Many, many more citizens are purchasing guns and ammo online, provided they have a carry permit, and the online seller then ships the purchase to the gun store of their choice. Delvin Brown, of USA Today, recently detailed this phenomenon of gun purchases by many citizens, "Americans are loading up on guns and ammo in the wake of race riots."
If gun sales are any indication of how people might vote in the 2020 Election, there is good reason for liberals and social progressives to be concerned. With calls for defunding police departments and thuggish “Black Lives Matter” protests, many citizens, out of the immediate chaos of these events, are assessing what America’s future may look like in the light of the last three weeks. This large uptick in the purchase of guns and ammo would suggest those quietly acquiescing to looters, those destroying property and assaulting innocent citizens, even killing police officers to court political approbation, are not highly esteemed by normal Americans.
The Mainstream Media, Democrats, and leftists may try to characterize those buying guns and ammo as white supremacists, Klansmen, or part of the 10-15 percent of the population that Joe Biden refers to as bad people.
They would be wrong. Citizens purchasing guns and ammunition are from all backgrounds, many are professional women. They are also store and homeowners, physicians, businesspeople and attorneys. There are even a few academics in this vast group. They want to protect their property and their families when law and order show signs of breaking down. They have seen what real civil chaos looks like, especially in cities and states hued blue, on their televisions and smart phones and they want no part in it.
Every media story that paints leftist portraits of all police, national guard and Secret Service agents trying to protect law-abiding citizens as racist murderers of innocent black people while police cars are burned, stores and restaurants looted and destroyed, may engender many more votes against such glaring hypocrisy. Countless citizens on the sidelines observing such mayhem, don’t have bully pulpits from which to call rubbish on conservative denouncements. But if counting gun sales is akin to reading tea leaves, there is a good probability they will bide their time until November 3rd and vote against candidates who support this mayhem.
As one of us has written in these pages, you simply can’t believe most of the political polling that transpires these days. Up until the morning of the election we will be indoctrinated to believe that the polls prove that Joe Biden and his seven dwarfs of progressivism have a distinct, if not overwhelming, election lead.
Back in 2017, a study by Pew Research shows that 41% of Republicans, 16% of Democrats and 38% of Independents have a gun in their home. After the recent Covid-19 epidemic and the George Floyd riots, that number is likely much, much higher. As the NRA’s Charles Cooke argued recently, freedom is an issue that is stirring most Americans. There are thousands of protestors. There are many millions who watch in abhorrence.
You are simply not paying attention or stuck in progressive La-La land if you believe this won’t make a decisive difference come November 3rd.
If elected, the first thing the Dems will do is take away the guns. That’s where this is all going.
And the riots show us exactly why they want to take our guns. These are their blackshirts.
I re-read Atlas Shrugged. Parts of John Gault’s radio speech described today’s events to the letter.
Just from the law-abiding white people, the hoodrats can keep theirs.
Yes, and then they can oppress and kill us with impunity. Give up your guns and you will die. We are not going to get back the USA at the ballot box and we are fighting a vast conspiracy to turn the US into a globalist/Anarchist view of the US made into something like Venezuela.
Best GOP commercial possible:
* Shot of BLM riots (signs prominent); cut to:
* plugs biden approval calling it “addressing historic injustices”
Continue jumping from riots to leftist politicos.
End with “You choose. (Trump 2020)”
It’s true. We thought Trump single handed could do it, but we had NO IDEA how deep the treachery goes.
Boo hoo, blue hue!
I don't believe that's correct. I just purchased a P365 from a sports outlet and the dealer they shipped it to performed the instant background check. While I do have a CPL, the seller never asked and the receiving dealer didn't need it.
I don’t say this for hyperbole or out of some false sense of bravado.
If/when the left attempts to do this there will be a tear in the fabric of the US that cannot be repaired. First and foremost, sheriff’s and even many state governments in red states and even in some blue states will refuse to do this.
It simply will not work outside of deep blue areas where most would likely comply. However, how does that work if you destroy law enforcement? Not well.
What do they do then? There are many “laws” that could be easily passed by a “legislature”. It is simple. Enforcing the law is always the catch and enforcement is most reliant on voluntary compliance by a law-abiding populace. What do they do when millions (not thousands like we see now in urban areas) refuse to comply? What do they do when states pass (as some already have) firearms rights into state law?
I do not doubt that many on the left want to do this. I have never doubted it. However, there are many “democrats” who would not do this and many more who understand how/why it would never work.
They may try this, but it will be after the old guard of the DNC is dead and buried (no longer in power). The older democrats remember what happened in 1994.
Can I trust that you, and I will get out to vote for Trump!
Please check my tagline.
An older acquaintance from Minneapolis is planning to purchase a firearm for the first time. I imagine he’s not the only one.
It will only matter if we can steal a few senate seats as well as keeping most of the rinos. A few recalls would help but we’re disorganized.
Ayep!
The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
We're armed so you don't have to be... 
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
It truly is depressing.
The American corporations facilitating the mayhem need to be put on notice.
There’s no systematic racism in America— there’s systematic radical activism.
There is no way Middle America can agree with this talk to defund the police.
I have not seen any public opinion polls on that specific subject but if any polls were taken I think that the vast majority of people are against defunding police.
And with some of the loud Democrat voices such as Omar and ocasio-cortez, city of Menneapolis, and mayors DeBlasio and Garcetti in NY and LA saying they will cut police budgets, Middle America could will be scared away from voting for any Democrat for any office. They are seeing what you get if you put Democrats in charge. Politically this can only help Trump and can only hurt Biden.
It seems that people purchasing online are in a data base somewhere.
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