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A Silent Indicator of Where America Is Headed Politically
Townhall.com ^ | June 13, 2020 | Lloyd Pettegrew

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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
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To: Mark17

“The Wrath Of The Awakened Saxon.”
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Yes. Lots of truth in that poem.


121 posted on 06/13/2020 10:08:41 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Hildy

[If elected, the first thing the Dems will do is take away the guns. That’s where this is all going.]

That’s for sure. Democrats are trying to destroy America’s history and their operatives have been burning businesses in America’s cities.


122 posted on 06/13/2020 10:59:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Gene Eric
There’s no systematic racism in America— there’s systematic radical activism.
- Gene Eric

exactly!

123 posted on 06/14/2020 4:07:11 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: TheDon

Last week, there were NO long guns to be found at my local Walmart.

Yesterday; they were back!


124 posted on 06/14/2020 4:24:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: null and void

Well done!


125 posted on 06/14/2020 4:25:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: boxlunch

America!!

REPENT!


126 posted on 06/14/2020 4:30:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Big Red Badger
How Deep Is the Swamp?

I can swim.

I want to know how WIDE it is!

127 posted on 06/14/2020 4:32:09 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Shotguns are on backorder here.


128 posted on 06/14/2020 4:43:01 AM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: Elsie

How Wide,,,?
.
I used to think it was
about as wide as
Hillary...


129 posted on 06/14/2020 4:46:22 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: reformedliberal

“We Win!”

for now
.
Demographics
Is gonna get us.


130 posted on 06/14/2020 4:52:51 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: Mark17

131 posted on 06/14/2020 4:52:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Great MEME!


132 posted on 06/14/2020 4:53:39 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: reformedliberal

See above


133 posted on 06/14/2020 4:53:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CatOwner
We're done. It's just a matter of time.

DJT has bought us time. And, I do not think you are an Eeyore. On the other hand, what we are seeing is the Left in desperation. They are on the brink of either total domination (Biden wins) or total annihilation (20-some-thousand indictments). I also see that the Dem voters with common sense get the situation. Massive voter fraud aside, Trump wins in November.

134 posted on 06/14/2020 5:23:57 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: reformedliberal

Very good. I appreciate your reply.

I believe the 1%-2% you speak of is likely to come from Dems voting “R” and simply keeping it to themselves or only sharing it with a few close friends.

We can hope that things are progressing to mitigate voter fraud.

You certainly have a good analytical mind. Thanks.


135 posted on 06/14/2020 7:39:25 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

That must have been a very interesting association.


136 posted on 06/14/2020 10:48:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I stopped by a very large gun shop Saturday and they were almost out of long guns. One AR 15 left. They said people are buying them as soon as they come in.


137 posted on 06/15/2020 2:15:10 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?my)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yes, very interesting and helpful. It involved the Contras vs the Sandanistas in Nicaragua and part of it was infiltrating pro Sandanista groups in Colo.


138 posted on 06/15/2020 6:39:56 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Buchanan stated this in 2000, long before George the Younger’s Second Term.”

You are right. But most R’s didn’t start figuring that out until after 2004. A lot of R’s still haven’t figured it out.


139 posted on 06/15/2020 10:11:21 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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