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Don’t Forget: The Party That Wants To Defund The Police Also Wants To Disarm You
The Federalist ^ | June 15, 2020 | Kylee Zempel

Posted on 06/15/2020 7:57:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

A social worker and an abortionist won't do you much good when an armed intruder is breaking into your home in the night — and if Democrats had their way, you'd be rendered defenseless as well.


Whether “Defund the Police” actually means dismantling police departments, as it appears to in Minneapolis, or is an attempt to gaslight conservatives while neutering law enforcement, one thing is certain: The party yelling to “defund the police” is the same one that desperately wants to disarm the citizenry, rendering them utterly defenseless.

Leftists, and increasingly the Democratic mainstream, have long assured Second Amendment advocates that they simply have no need for firearms, specifically semiautomatic guns, which the left deems “assault rifles.”

Notwithstanding that rights aren’t derived from what one “needs,” particularly when the person discerning necessity is a combative third party, conservatives reject the left’s claim. Not only does the Second Amendment ensure that Americans’ right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but it is inherent within a person’s natural rights to defend himself and his property.

The Proof Is in the Looting

That principle proved true over the last few weeks, as the nation has witnessed responsible citizens defending themselves, their businesses, and the property of others with ample firepower. In one particularly notable scene, a law-abiding gun owner disarmed an apparent rioter after the rogue lefted a semiautomatic rifle from the backseat of an abandoned police car. In another, a group of men, both black and white, stood armed outside a tobacco store to protect the business from looters.

Rioters just found an AR-15 in an abandoned police car and a hero immidiately pulled his gun and disarmed him.

CRAZY pic.twitter.com/efzLTcFDXf

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 31, 2020

These guys say they support the protests but not the looting. Showed up to help this tobacco store owner stop people from breaking in pic.twitter.com/x2FMQiQwVK

— Max Nesterak (@maxnesterak) May 28, 2020

Videos of thugs beating female business owners and looting department stores prove that even when police aren’t disbanded, they can’t be everywhere. Citizens can’t always count on the boys in blue to defend them, even before the left’s efforts to cripple them. We must be able to protect ourselves.

Now, after years of 16-year-old gun “experts” and National Rifle Association opponents lecturing gun owners that the exercise of their rights is incompatible with caring about the lives of innocent school children and racial minorities, the majority of the Democratic Party also wants to take away the only method of defense they were going to leave you with. They want to defund the police.

‘Defund the Police!’

Many backtracked almost immediately, insisting that “defund the police” doesn’t really mean canceling the police, and that what we really need to do is divert resources to mental health professionals, social workers, counselors, and the like. Some seriously suggested police could be replaced with Planned Parenthood, safe illicit drug injection sites, and government-run health care.

Imagine being this wrong about human nature. https://t.co/bv6gYqsGez

— Kylee Zempel (@kyleezempel) June 10, 2020

A social worker and an abortionist won’t do you much good when an armed intruder is breaking into your home in the wee hours of the morning — and if Democrats had their way, you’d be rendered defenseless as well.

Yes, They Want Your Guns

Joe Biden will tell you “You’re full of sh-t” for suggesting Democrats want to disarm you, but the left’s disdain for the Second Amendment is undeniable. Remember “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47″? That kind of anti-firearm energy from Beto O’Rourke pervades the left’s psyche, and it was grafted into this election cycle when the former vice president warmly welcomed O’Rourke’s radical gun perspective.

“I want to make something clear,” Biden said after O’Rourke endorsed him for the Democratic nomination. “I’m going to guarantee you, this is not the last you’re seeing of this guy. You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me. You’re going to be the one who leads this effort.”

Unconstitutional anti-gun plans don’t stop with Biden and O’Rourke. The Democratic Party line calls for “common sense” gun reform — whatever that means. Sense doesn’t seem too “common” among the party of which a majority, 55 percent, support defunding the police (not diverting resources; that was a separate poll question).

Mainstream Democrats have a track record of trying to infringe upon the Second Amendment, with those talking points resurfacing most notably during political campaign grandstanding or the exploitation of isolated shootings.

Retweet if you agree that the best way to honor 26 #Newtown victims is for Congress to pass common-sense gun violence legislation.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 14, 2013

As president, I will give Congress 100 days to get their act together and pass reasonable gun safety laws. If they don’t, I will take executive action. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We need action.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 26, 2019

From the White House, I will take executive action to rein in an out-of-control gun industry. Gun manufacturers make billions by knowingly selling deadly products, and it’s time to hold gun dealers and manufacturers accountable for the violence promoted by these products.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 10, 2019

I don’t think firearms are needed in churches. Let’s have a conversation on gun safety.

— Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) January 30, 2019

How Long Until Biden Takes a Knee?

So far, most establishment Democrats have tried to rein in calls for defunding the police, fearful of voter repercussions in November if they take such an extreme position. Biden has denied support for defunding the police, insisting community policing is the way to go. But how long can the “Architect of Mass Incarceration” — Biden’s nickname courtesy of Sen. Cory Booker — last before Black Lives Matter makes him beg forgiveness for his role in the infamous 1994 crime bill? His penance in the church of the Great Awokening will surely involve decrying and defunding police.

With the majority of Democrats favoring defunding police departments, the establishment isn’t really in control. It doesn’t have a good track record of standing up to the progressive mob.

We’re talking about the same party of which its plethora of presidential contenders unanimously supported taxpayer-provided health care for illegal immigrants, that bogusly impeached the president to appease a Resistance losing its mind, that adopted a 16-year old climate extremist to appease the Green New Dealers, among incalculable other leftward lurches.

Don’t expect Democrats to suddenly become moderate now. The same party that wants your guns also wants to defund your defenders.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; crime; defundpolice; defundthepolice; democrats; firearms; georgefloyd; gfloydprotests; guns; joebiden; law; lawenforcement; looting; nra; police; policebrutality; protests; riots; secondamendment
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1 posted on 06/15/2020 7:57:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Well unless they go door to door with SWAT teams looking for guns, good luck.


2 posted on 06/15/2020 7:59:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: SkyDancer

No cops, no SWAT teams.

Who is going to enforce gun laws?


3 posted on 06/15/2020 8:00:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

They might disarm us, but the Dems will not defund the police. Public employee unions and the Dems are in bed together. They will probably blame Trump for the failure to defund the police.


4 posted on 06/15/2020 8:01:13 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Bingo.


5 posted on 06/15/2020 8:01:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Kaslin

On the whole, this year has been chaotic and a lot of people have felt fear of one kind or another.

As a political matter, it sure seems like a winner to remind the average American that one of the major parties wants to remove any sort of protection you might expect for yourself and your loved ones. No guns for you. And no police either.

It’s a battle of Good vs Evil and Normal people need to understand who is who.


6 posted on 06/15/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Kaslin

So the misguided suburban women who as a majority are set to vote against Trump (his name calling is mean, his tweets are harsh, I don’t like his personality) can have this future:

Black Panthers and BLM are the new community police, along with Antifa. No police department as it was defunded and abolished.

Thugs start a home invasion and proceed to rob her and get set up to gang rape her.

“I’m calling the police. Let me go.”

Thugs: “Lady, we already be da police. We is here.”


7 posted on 06/15/2020 8:06:02 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Daveinyork

They want to OWN the police not defund them.

They need a new army of leftist brown-shirts to enforce the new order.


8 posted on 06/15/2020 8:06:46 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Who is going to enforce gun laws?

And the 1000s of other petty social-engineering laws and regulations that leftists love.

9 posted on 06/15/2020 8:08:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kaslin
Your firearms are just an impediment to their goals. What they really want is you dead.
10 posted on 06/15/2020 8:16:02 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: headstamp 2

They own each other. Dem politicians and public employee unions are in bed together. There will be no changes, and they will blame Trump.


11 posted on 06/15/2020 8:18:38 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: ClearCase_guy

They also want to force you to contract the diseases and die as well.


12 posted on 06/15/2020 8:22:27 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Kaslin

Black gangs riding in technicals, just like in Africa, will be the Demonrats preferred policing method.

They want a black apartheid government, supported by Islamists and Communists. The old red, green, black alliance (see most Arab flags)


13 posted on 06/15/2020 8:24:33 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Precisely! . . . Your comments as well as the article's title summarize the present situation 'excellently'!

Reminds me of the Ten Commandments movie scene where Moses tells his people to choose a side and the "middle" quickly became a deep cavern.

14 posted on 06/15/2020 8:25:25 AM PDT by caprock (from the flats of SE New Mexico)
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To: Daveinyork

Most police and trade union guys I know are solid R’s.


15 posted on 06/15/2020 8:26:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

***I don’t think firearms are needed in churches. Let’s have a conversation on gun safety.

— Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) January 30, 2019***

There was a time in American History, when worshipers were required to bring their “firelocks” to church, then practice after services.

Also, persons traveling, were required to be armed with a firearm. But that was 350 years ago.


16 posted on 06/15/2020 8:27:42 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: frank ballenger

Unfortunately, I know too many affluent suburban women whose response would be, “All six of you? It’s a dream come true! Okay, who wants to go first?”


17 posted on 06/15/2020 8:28:36 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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To: frank ballenger

You forgot roving bands of Islamic men who feel they can rape and impregnate your daughters at will...as is happening in the EU now.


18 posted on 06/15/2020 8:29:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: EEGator

What about the public employee union leadership?


19 posted on 06/15/2020 8:34:25 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

They suck.


20 posted on 06/15/2020 8:38:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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