Posted on 12/27/2020 4:27:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
While Barack Obama was once the greatest inspiration for gun-buying in America, 2020 offered Americans the best incentives ever to buy.
Once upon a time, as a Democrat who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was such an anti-gun fanatic that I donated to the Brady Campaign. Thankfully, I saw the light after Hurricane Katrina (when seconds counted, the police were days away), and have made up for my past bad judgment by being an NRA member, using my writing abilities to promote the Second Amendment, and helping the bottom line at several local gun stores. That’s why it gladdens my heart to tell you one of the good things about 2020: It was a banner year for gun sales!
When it comes to guns, the anti-gun crowd lacks imagination. To them, guns exist for one purpose: To murder people or, occasionally, to kill people accidentally. If you take away guns, they “reason,” you will take away murder and accidental deaths.
People with a deeper and more nuanced understanding support the Second Amendment because they understand that guns don’t commit murders
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In 2020, Americans were reminded that civil unrest is another good reason to keep and bear arms. The Democrats were waiting for an opportunity to attack the police and George Floyd’s drug overdose while in police custody was the spark they needed. Leftist Americans took to the streets. And while it’s true that many George Floyd marches were polite affairs (usually in places with Republican governance), marches in Democrat-run enclaves more than offset the constitutionally peaceful protests.
Upon seeing mass marches followed by riots, followed by looting, followed by maddened crowds descending on residential neighborhoods, Americans did the only logical thing: They put their Second Amendment right to practical use and stocked up.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I don’t know about guns, but ammo has become really scarce. How are people doing that did not see this coming?
People who say that have never been in a shooting war.
Only if they are willing to use them.
MtnClimber wrote: “I don’t know about guns, but ammo has become really scarce. How are people doing that did not see this coming?”
Don’t wait for the panic. Buy early, buy often, buy a lot.
I certainly would not call a shooting war to be good news. It would be a terrible thing to happen. But as hard as it is to believe, there is worse. One thing that would be worse would be for a shooting war to start with truly ruthless enemies and to be unarmed.
What annoys me the most are the people who say they will never vote again - they’ll stay home and pout. However, they claim they will heroically be in the foxholes if the shooting starts. Imagine their dismay when they discover that a shooting war is even dirtier and more “unfair” than a rigged election.
For later.
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I'm really starting to hate the term "Civil War" when we should be united in defeating a coup attempt. How about American Revolution 2.0.
Fitting that your man is wearing a THE Ohio State shirt.
Or like this...
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I don’t know how to post it so the image shows within the post.
Um, no.
Riots and destruction of property are nothing to champion, and various DAs letting criminals get away with these crimes was a foreshadowing of the election. Finally, Floyd was no Saint.
But, again, American Thinker proves itself to be sloppier than Gateway Pundit by not employing the most basic of editing, or maybe it simply uses writers who don't like facts. Or maybe American Thinker is just plain stupid***.
For the record, Floyd’s cause of death is listed officially as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restrain, and neck compression.” The full autopsy report states further that “no life-threatening injuries [were] identified.”
Lots of people (who never examined the corpse) have hypothesized that Floyd OD'd, died while being incompetently restrained, shot himself in the head had yada yada. But that's not what happened, and the writer's speculation being presented as fact, simply destroys all credibility on what could have been an ok piece.
***-Andrea Widburg IS a deputy editor. Well, that explains it.
Exactly.
I've seen people fly into rages about slow internet service, the wrong topping on an ordered pizza, and a Social Security COLA that was less than they hoped for.
A real Civil War (and yes, that's what it would be, not a Revolution) would be closer to hell on earth.
Those wishing for one are clueless.
Don’t skip over a convention of red states and a peaceful secession. We don’t have to have a war to have a divorce.
You do your fellow countrymen a great disservice by telling them them their are just two choices: do nothing and knuckle under and a Somalian type civil war. There is a huge spectrum between the two, from a peaceful secession too a partial secession and of coarse war with complete dystopian chaos. You have locked yourself into a static box of 2 outcomes. A fake choice box. The situation is fluid and dynamic.
Fixed it.
I’m old enough to remember Biden’s whole-hearted support for any and all gun control.
Anyone who ever thought that the “slippery slope” theory of gun conttol moving to banning guns saw that theory move to fact was when Beto said, “you’re damn right we’re coming after your AR-15!”
I was banned from having any more appointments with my representative, Alan Wheat from MO, because of my opposition to his and Biden’s idiotic ideas on gun control.
Mark
Sometimes the best threat is the threat of the unknown. Government does not know if patriots will use their guns or not and this hopefully tempers their oppression.
Without the possession of guns, there is no unknown to stop the government.
I think also that there is an unspoken line in the sand that guns will be used when the government starts to come and get them. Lexington and Concord II.
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