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.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Interesting!

I bought my very first shotgun just yesterday (Benelli Super Eagle II) at Sportsmans Warehouse for my very first upcoming bird hunt. I told the salesman that I knew ZERO about guns - and shared that I’d never even shot one. He didn’t hesitate and said ‘’No worries. We are getting rank amateurs in here all the time now asking us ‘what do I need to load up on before the election?’.’’

(Time to book a hunter safety class, load up on handgun/shotgun ammo, and hit the range.)

[Gondring]

[...] it succinctly summarizes our choice in November.

The American people could choose to vote for a true Pro-Gun candidate and not compromise away our rights.

[Gondring]

Thank you for posting that. Great story.

[USMCPOP]

My son expressed his opinions in words and pictures.

"One thing keeps popping up in my mind though... a couple years ago I swore an oath, that I would "...support and defend the Constitution of the United states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...

I didn't join up to be part of some government conspiracy--I joined because I thought it was just one small way that I could contribute to the people of this country... although the discipline didn't hurt much either. As I think back to that oath, something about all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC... I wonder who is really to blame for the degredation of the American society."

At the time, he was ranting about the American mass media...

[Emperor Palpatine]

Yeah, the non-team players who care more about themselves and their precious pet issues than the good of the nation.

[matt1234]

http://www.gunbanobama.com/

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Great resource: courtesy of the NRA Political Victory Fund