Posted on 02/25/2016 4:32:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's easy to forget the cold, dark days of winter, 2013.
The horrific tragedy of Newtown had touched the hearts of the nation, and every news outlet -- every one -- was blaming the Second Amendment community for what happened there.
GOA was receiving death threats -- not only against us, but against our children. Even Fox News was opining that the battle against Bloomberg's gun control was hopeless, as every news outlet spent every hour of the day predicting that our organization -- and the "gun manufacturers' lobby" [sic] in general -- would be absolutely and totally destroyed.
It was in this context that Senator Ted Cruz agreed to lead a team of senators to defeat every word -- EVERY WORD -- of Bloomberg/Obama gun control.
Working with us, Cruz implemented a brilliant strategy which used the complex rules of parliamentary procedure to send Barack Obama and Harry Reid running with their tails between their legs.
And the Cruz/GOA victory emboldened gun owners to take the Senate away from the anti-gun crazies in 2014 and return it to pro-Second Amendment principles.
Make no mistake: Had Ted Cruz not done what he did, the gun rights community would have been completely demoralized and defeated.
We would have been unable to achieve the electoral victories that we won in 2014, and instead, we would have been fighting desperately to fend off the succession of follow-up gun control measures that Bloomberg and Obama promised.
But that’s not the way history unfolded.
Because of Cruz, the efforts to enact gun registration and gun and magazine bans were stopped in the Senate.
And with Gun Owners of America supporting Cruz' strategy, the liberal media blasted GOA for helping him defeat gun control in the Senate:
(Excerpt) Read more at gunowners.org ...
Easy peasy! Ted Cruz.
“You would be wrong. You do know he has a concealed carry permit in New York and carries a gun at times. Both his sons are big hunters and are NRA members.”
That does not necessarily make Donald Trump a principled defender of the 2nd Amendment. He might be, he might not be. What it does make him is a defender of Donald Trump’s gun rights.
It will be sad if he wins and it turns out that his critics are right when they posit that Trump’s guiding principle is “It’s all about me!” I am not a Trump fan at all, but I hope his vision is larger than himself. If I believe what he says, then clearly he does.
But I do not believe what he says.
The real answer to this question is pretty meaningless, but here it goes, Kasich. I assume Kasich hasn’t been a gun grabber in his past. Since Kasich was in Congress while both Rubio and Cruz were in High School, and Trump was a Democrat. He wins because he was born a few decades before Cruz and Rubio.
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That reminds me... Who was it that was a major Southern hater a few years ago... almost daily hate spewed (who said that he himself had lived in the south a few years before that, which we called BS on)?
I can’t remember the name, but haven’t seen him on in awhile.. wonder if he got the ZoT!...
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