Posted on 06/13/2020 10:13:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Jim McCoy.
Progressives inhabiting the mainstream media, the Democratic Party and Hollywood continue to herald how the Covid-19 virus, tainted economy, condemnation from China, the racist police beating of innocent demonstrators, and the disunifying editorial from four star General James “Chaos” Mattis about our president, are harbingers of doom for the Trump administration and Republican candidates come election time. There is at least one strong indicator that may prove these liberal naysayers wrong about the effects the current schiff-storm may have at the ballot box in November.
John R. Lott, Jr. wrote in National Review that the “Police have stopped responding to many 911 calls, and massive numbers of inmates are being released early from prison.” During the past 14 days people have been rioting and vandalizing in the streets of America, including unlikely places like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Fifth Avenue in New York City and even Whitefish, Montana. From Florida to Utah and elsewhere around the country, something very interesting is happening in gun stores. Most gun stores receive new product orders on Friday afternoons. For the past month people have been lining up outside gun stores to purchase new weapons and ammunition first thing Saturday morning. Many, many more citizens are purchasing guns and ammo online, provided they have a carry permit, and the online seller then ships the purchase to the gun store of their choice. Delvin Brown, of USA Today, recently detailed this phenomenon of gun purchases by many citizens, "Americans are loading up on guns and ammo in the wake of race riots."
If gun sales are any indication of how people might vote in the 2020 Election, there is good reason for liberals and social progressives to be concerned. With calls for defunding police departments and thuggish “Black Lives Matter” protests, many citizens, out of the immediate chaos of these events, are assessing what America’s future may look like in the light of the last three weeks. This large uptick in the purchase of guns and ammo would suggest those quietly acquiescing to looters, those destroying property and assaulting innocent citizens, even killing police officers to court political approbation, are not highly esteemed by normal Americans.
The Mainstream Media, Democrats, and leftists may try to characterize those buying guns and ammo as white supremacists, Klansmen, or part of the 10-15 percent of the population that Joe Biden refers to as bad people.
They would be wrong. Citizens purchasing guns and ammunition are from all backgrounds, many are professional women. They are also store and homeowners, physicians, businesspeople and attorneys. There are even a few academics in this vast group. They want to protect their property and their families when law and order show signs of breaking down. They have seen what real civil chaos looks like, especially in cities and states hued blue, on their televisions and smart phones and they want no part in it.
Every media story that paints leftist portraits of all police, national guard and Secret Service agents trying to protect law-abiding citizens as racist murderers of innocent black people while police cars are burned, stores and restaurants looted and destroyed, may engender many more votes against such glaring hypocrisy. Countless citizens on the sidelines observing such mayhem, don’t have bully pulpits from which to call rubbish on conservative denouncements. But if counting gun sales is akin to reading tea leaves, there is a good probability they will bide their time until November 3rd and vote against candidates who support this mayhem.
As one of us has written in these pages, you simply can’t believe most of the political polling that transpires these days. Up until the morning of the election we will be indoctrinated to believe that the polls prove that Joe Biden and his seven dwarfs of progressivism have a distinct, if not overwhelming, election lead.
Back in 2017, a study by Pew Research shows that 41% of Republicans, 16% of Democrats and 38% of Independents have a gun in their home. After the recent Covid-19 epidemic and the George Floyd riots, that number is likely much, much higher. As the NRA’s Charles Cooke argued recently, freedom is an issue that is stirring most Americans. There are thousands of protestors. There are many millions who watch in abhorrence.
You are simply not paying attention or stuck in progressive La-La land if you believe this won’t make a decisive difference come November 3rd.
There are about 25-26 depending on how you count what permits.
Ah. Thank you.
Thanx, I’m old enough to be a *sage*, but, I’m female.
...Some people are natural killers.
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Yeah, you’re right. Luckily, the ones I know aren’t. I do think, for most people, killing has a negative impact on them.
Doesn’t mean they can’t/won’t do it again, if necessary, just that it leaves a mark.
... fingers on the pulse.
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Just removed enough by age, geography and circumstance to have the luxury of analytic reflection. I’m sure it’s much more emotionally intense for the proximate.
But thanx,
Friend just emailed that she had to drive thru some of the damage in Minneapolis today. Wrenching. It’s a permanent reminder and that is also going to affect people’s attitudes.
Lol! You are one in a million! You saw the light and realized it was good. Thanks!
who? /s
purchasing guns and ammo online, provided they have a carry permit,
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Not in Texas.
Also, if you have no CHL, NICS works although it may take 10 to 20 minutes in the automated check due to system being overloaded.
I found Galts’
Speech,
And His Vow.
Good Words.
It seems that people purchasing online are in a data base somewhere.
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EVERYONE is in the “database like no one has ever seen” as we were told by blabbermouth in the last administration. This song even foretold that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOL8HrzZHCs
Yep, Mad Maxine spilled the beans.
I’m knew Uri. He spent two weeks where I worked in the early 80’s.
Social workers. 😁🤗😊🙃🤒🤣🤪🤑😂
Rudyard Kipling. “The Wrath Of The Awakened Saxon.”
I wonder when the whole thing will blow? People just aren’t going to take it in the shorts indefinitely.
Excellent post.
I’d say you have a good handle on things. Do you think recent events have disturbed some Democrats enough to turn away from the Democrat party?
It seems to me that normal and good and decent people are seeing the Democrats true, ugly colors and they don’t like what they’re seeing. Or is the hate for Trump enough to keep them in line?
Do you think recent events have disturbed some Democrats enough to turn away from the Democrat party?
It seems to me that normal and good and decent people are seeing the Democrats true, ugly colors and they don’t like what they’re seeing. Or is the hate for Trump enough to keep them in line?
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Like everyone else in America, my personal contacts have shrunk and become parochial over the past decades. I can only go by what I can find in the few, mostly conservative, websites/news sites that still allow comments. So, anything I think is FWIW.
I read of people who have left/#WalkedAway specifically because they can no longer stomach the lying hypocrisy and the shattering of our society. My sense is these are people in their 40s and older.
The hate for Trump is inculcated,IMO. It isn’t organic/authentic. I have supported Trump since he declared and agreed with him since before that. Personally, I find him a tedious speaker, most of the time. His persona can be grating. But, I have no doubt of his sincerity and I admire his actions, tactics and the way he has led while under siege. I would never change my vote and by the same token, I fear most D voters are similarly able to excuse the personal attributes of their chosen officials as long as they believe those officials have honest intentions toward the country and the citizens.
THAT is what I think must be giving D voters pause. If your children and siblings and friends are under pressure and in physical fear, if your livelihood is balanced on the whim of some wackscold, if your home could be targeted or even incidentally destroyed because of ideologues who seem less and less trustworthy and authentic, how could you continue to give allegiance to them and their ever-shifting pronouncements and demands?
The real answer is IDK.
We all have a sense that this is so, that they are withdrawing. I watch interviews with college-age people and I see true weakness and the shifting gaze when they denounce individual violent actions, but voice support for the underlying ideology. I’m pretty sure they have realized that even vocal support will not protect them. We all see the proggies attack their own. I know from my own experience, even 20-30 years ago,that it takes one envious or deranged person to incite a group against a chosen goat and how that makes you insecure, then wary, then isolate, then angry enough to break ties of a lifetime.
But my personal experiences now are more impersonal. I do see the committed change agents, now elders themselves, pop up in organizations with which I still have vague and distant connections, to rally the flagging troops and that gives me hope. If they had committed cadres, they could just mouth vague *way to go* type comments. Instead, they post screeds to group email lists. Not the actions of winners.
I’m hoping for some incident that is so truly beyond the pale that even the most brainwashed D voter at the very least sits the election out at all levels. If our side can then get even another 1%-2% of those, we win.
For now.
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