Hold Your Nose and Vote, or Turn in Your Guns…It’s That Simple

The Blue Press, Dillon Precision Products, Inc. ^ | October 2008 | Peter Caroline

[corbie]

Okay, I agree, it’s an odious choice, and thanks to the media and our two-party system, we have to make a difficult decision. But your freedom and your right to bear arms are in the balance. If you stay home, or vote the way your union tells you to, or vote for “change,” you will get screwed in a place you will find very uncomfortable. Let me explain why.

The two contenders are Barack Obama and John McCain. McCain has not always, admittedly, been the best friend of American gun owners.

Obama, on the other hand, has a long, documented, and consistent record of being the legitimate gun owner’s worst enemy.

Let’s look at his record: Obama wants to bring back the failed Clinton Gun Ban; Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership; Obama supports local gun bans, such as the one recently vacated by the Supreme Court; Obama supports owner licensing and gun registration, and opposes Right to Carry laws; Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within five miles of a school or park, and wants to ban the manufacture and sale of inexpensive handguns; Obama supports mandatory micro-stamping, mandatory waiting periods, and one-gun-a month sales restrictions. And that’s just a sample. When Obama was campaigning in the “fly-over states,” he posed as a friend of hunters, although he would not go so far as to put on hunting garb, a la Kerry. Then in front of wealthy California urbanites, he spoke of those same middle-American folk as “clinging to guns and religion” because they were embittered by the economy. Now, Obama’s supporters would probably say that he was simply tailoring his message to the specific audience. From a more jaundiced perspective, he’s a phony, elitist a$$hole.

McCain troubles me, but not as much as Obama does. John McCain has pushed through legislation that would make it illegal for an organization such as the NRA to air advertising critical of a candidate prior to an election. He has argued for legislation to “close-the-gun-show loophole,” whatever that is. On the positive side, McCain has supported gun owners on Emergency Powers (as in the New Orleans gun-seizure outrage) and on the firearms industry lawsuit preemption. He was against Ted Kennedy’s proposed ammunition ban, against the initial Clinton Gun Ban and subsequent attempts at its renewal, against government-funded “gun buybacks,” against the hi-cap magazine import ban, and against mandated waiting periods. McCain opposed the Brady Bill, and has spoken out in favor of hunting in the Mohave National Monument. McCain might not be your first choice as President of the NRA, but as President of the United States, he would be a far more acceptable choice for gun owners than Obama. How about a third-party candidate? Don’t even go there. Remember Ross Perot and Ralph Nader? They pulled enough votes to spoil the chances of Republican and Democrat candidates respectively.

One might well argue that a President does not have unlimited powers; that the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court will serve to protect us from a presidential gun grab. The House and Senate right now have a Democrat majority, with every indication that it will stay that way or even get more slanted toward the Democrats in the coming election. And with just a few exceptions, Democrat politicians are not friendly to gun owners.

How about the Supreme Court? On June 25, 2008, the Supreme Court, by a one-vote, five-four margin, allowed for a very limited interpretation of the Second Amendment as an individual right. If, God forbid, Barack Obama were President, and a vacancy came up on the Court, whom do you think he’d appoint? Hillary Clinton? Charles Schumer? Odds are, his appointee would make Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like a conservative! I don’t know about you, but I’d feel much more confident if it were John McCain making the choice. John McCain has made it quite clear that his choices for the Supreme Court would be strict constitutionalists.

We gun owners have mortal enemies not only in this country, but especially abroad. And representing gun-grabbers worldwide is the United Nations, a cancerous growth located in New York City. The U.N. has long sought to bring the United States into its campaign to restrict small arms sales and ownership worldwide. That scheme was quashed, for the time being, by President Bush and our erstwhile U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton. But all bets are off if Obama gets into the White House. He has stated his admiration for international law on many an occasion. And make no mistake about it, the U.N.’s brand of international law is in direct conflict with our Second Amendment rights. Would U.S. armed forces actually try, under U.N. direction, to take guns away from American citizens? They wouldn’t have to; the U.N. could and happily would send in foreign troops to accomplish that task.

Eight years ago, I wrote an article entitled “If you don’t vote like a gun owner…you suck!” It was harshly worded, and it got people’s attention. And perhaps it made a difference in keeping a liberal, anti-gun bloviator out of the White House. Today, we’re faced with an even more toxic threat to our First Freedom. Please, for the sake of all that’s holy, go to the polls and vote for John McCain. He’s not perfect by a long shot, but the alternative is a disarmed America under a socialist, one-world dictatorship.

[VOA]

Thanks for this thread.

It’s been fun to hear from some indirect supporters of Obama.

I hope they get a medal from Bill and Hillary when President Obama
(and the Democratic Senate) puts them on The Supreme Court of The
United States of America.

[EdReform]

Bang

[Prole]

So The Black Racist wants to disarm the Republic, eh?

Something tells me that he will kill a lot of good Americans before it's all over.

[Prole]

Here is one for Obama and his thugs:

[Prole]

Note that Kerry's finger is on the trigger, even though he is clearly not ready to fire.

We all know that a person should never place the finger onto the trigger until absolutely ready to fire.

Kerry is lucky he didn't have a negligent discharge while being so d@mn reckless with that shotgun.

[EdReform]

If you don't vote like a gun owner, YOU SUCK!

[cva66snipe]

I have a better idea that the Founders came up with. It's called electing a congress whichcan hold the other two branches in Constitutional check. But Boogieman gonna getcha scare tactics are the rave of the age it seems. Pay no attention to that DEM congressional landslide this November.

Everyone was too media focused on McCain while the DEMs will gain strength in congress. Fix congress first and you can even put in a Smirking Chimp in the White House and not have to worry about the damage done. Too bad that didn't happen and the chimp too was allowed even by the GOP congress majority at the time to ran wild and unchecked. McCain is part of the problem not the solution just like Obama.

[narses]

Hey EternalVigilance, what say you? Keep your guns or let Obama win? What will it be? Let’s not forget the babies either.

Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters Punished with a Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg

CNN on Obama’s Infant Born Alive Act Rejection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY

Jill Stanek on Obama and Born Alive Infant Protection Act (MUST SEE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo

Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill

http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaCoverup.html

Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc

Babies left to die!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo

[killermedic]

good post. However we the people need to remember that the 2nd amendment is the reset button for The Constitution. Our soldier serving have sworn to “Uphold The Constitution” and are therefore honor bound to it. They are not honor bound to take orders from the POTUS who orders something that is against The Constitution and viewed as illegal by the senate, congress, and the very states within which you reside.

[dsutah]

Oh you mean the “real” conservatives? ;^)

[narses]

I agree. Sad that there are still folks confused by the need for armed self defense.

[Shooter 2.5]

You can have the possibility of a staunch conservative in four years by voting for McCain/Palin or never because the loss of McCain/Palin will show the Republican Party that conservatives never win.

Your choice.

[Camel Joe]

I always wanted to make a gattler out of the German 88mm, and my ultimate dream would be a 16 inch ensemble using roller coaster rail to feed gigantic cartridges into it as fast as possible. Just imagine being on the receiving end of that.

[CRBDeuce]

Is that one of those 57 states Obama was talkin’ about?

[familyop]

Republican congressmen helped to pass the VAWA and certain other anti-Second-Amendment legislation as much as Democrats did. Violating the Second Amendment against one group at a time (gradualism—not reversible due to legislators’ vanity) is worse than violating it drastically (which is more easily reversible). See the “Million Mom March.” See pandering to feminism. See anti-Second-Amendment votes of popular CFR members who are pushed on us with waves of insults by those who call themselves conservatives. If your teen carries a firearm without also carrying a document of permission, you can go to prison (thanks in part to the vote of the “Fred” that we’re supposed to “fear”).

So you want to protect the Second Amendment? Then stop violating the rights of fathers and families. Stop spoiling your kids rotten. Stop killing the morale of your men at home by denying jobs to them, enslaving their wives and preferring hordes of third-worlders for employment (thereby impoverishing conservative men). Stop allowing the SCO military buildups and threats against our Nation for the preference of imports.

Stop pushing lily-livered, Hollywood-loving CFR members into politics and expecting us to vote for them.

Father knew best. Stop being a country of pansies, and the Second Amendment will be defended.

[MrEdd]

I am not buying your personal version of conservatism, in which blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and the McCain/Feingold bill are laudable examples of conservatism.

You seem to think conservatism is having an R in front of a candidates name on a ballot.

My version of conservatism involves actual ideals and principals which must be upheld and adhered to.

[RJL]

John Kerry, one of the wealthiest men in the country

I believe that John's only wealth comes from marrying women from wealthy families. How much wealth is in his name or that he actually earned is probably very small.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Would U.S. armed forces actually try, under U.N. direction, to take guns away from American citizens? They wouldn’t have to; the U.N. could and happily would send in foreign troops to accomplish that task.

Yum! Target practice! :-D

[tcostell]

All the same, he can certainly afford a Weatherby.