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.
The second thing is all the current members of orgs like BLM and Antfa will be ‘disappeared’.
The normal people like us are watching what’s going on. Very few are posting anything, or letting it be known that they reject the hysterical mania of the past few weeks. Not a word to anyone, except to people who think the same way. We don’t answer the phone when a poller calls. But Nov 3 is coming, and we know how we are going to vote.
The riots and the CHAZ nonsense show us exactly what they plan to do to us.
Speak for yourself.
Environ-MENTAL song, but still appropriate lyrics for the times
RE: The second thing is all the current members of orgs like BLM and Antfa will be ‘disappeared’.
That’s hopey change I can believe in!
There you go with your inspirational, uplifting thought of the day.
There is pretty reliable polling that shows a majority of black Americans do not want to “abolish the police.”
The radicals are overplaying their hand here. It makes for great media and a good media narrative about Trump.
However, outside of the hardcore left the media has no credibility.
There will be a rebuke in November. The vast majority of the country want law and order. The democrats are now the party of chaos and disorder. They are fracturing themselves as they try to fracture the rest of the nation. Everyone is “woke” when there is a camera in their face, but we vote in privacy.
SOP with socialist ‘revolutions’ - those that were willing to betray their country cannot be trusted
I think you misinterpreted what the original post was stating. I think by “disappeared’ it was meant to mean those responsible for these groups would be protected by the DEMs by hiding their identities. Or maybe it’s me that has it wrong.
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.
Um say what? You do not need a ccl to make an online purchase.
The military itself has been brainwashed by bolsheviks now.
This isn’t the military of 30 years ago.
not by a long shot.
THIS is why the generals did what they did. They KNEW a majority of the troop wouldn’t follow orders.
I don’t see how you can look at the events of recent years and not thinking we are sliding into a hole that can’t be dug out of.
Speak for yourself.
I did some 600 yard work today with my bolt gun today. One shot to verify my drop and every one on steel after that.
168 grain Match King, 41 grains of Reloader 12. 126 inches of drop. Yea, this old man still has it.
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Or, announce that the following ad is a “Paid Political Advertisement” sponsored by the Democrat mayors who have for many years proudly served the citizens of the following cities. Then have an announcer the name of each those mayors and the city they goverened as pics of their burned out storefronts and looted store aisles are shown.
You should change your screen name to “eyeore”.
The silent majority silently buying weapons.
I myself have been looking into our seller’s handgun range. Haven’t done anything in years. And need to collect some of my late father’s guns. Not all, so my mother has some.
A Silent Indicator of Where America Is Headed Politically
Just from the headline we are headed to the same fate as Rome is the answer.
I’ve been on FB for the last few days, reminding people that if police departments are defunded, they will be replaced with men in blue helmets with “UN” stenciled on the sides. And now, I see photos of the Black Shirts of Germany resurfacing. Something a lot of people may not even know about, in this age of altering and deleting history.
I hope I’m wrong, but if this defunding gains momentum... :o|
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