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.
If you do, don't purchase a new one. Keep yourself out of the database.
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming, are all states that accept a carry permit as a replacement for a NICS check.
You can coerce people with threats of violence, but that will mostly harden people’s resolve to get you out of their lives the first chance they get. Elected officials who have condoned Orwellian nonsense and violence being inflicted on their communities might find themselves with a much smaller share of a secret ballot vote than they are counting on having. The leftists will probably not like being lied to by people who say one thing publicly and vote an entirely different way, and we all know how disappointed leftists tend to act, thus the gun sales imo.
“It seems that people purchasing online are in a data base somewhere.”
Yes, they have a concealed carry permit. In our old state we got the CC. While at a gun show my husband purchased another gun. There was a long line of people waiting for the okay. My husband’s came back in minutes. The vendor said, “You must be a very good boy!”
Happily we moved & now have constitutional carry. No need for a permit.
After a LONG wait, I finally went to pick up my CMP 1911 last week. I used a small shop in Smiths Station, AL that I had not used before. While I was there, a stream of people came in and asked why there were so few guns available? The wall behind the counter only had a few long guns, no black rifles or military style clones. The cases with pistols were also only half stocked. The guy behind the counter kept telling people that they were selling guns as fast as they were receiving them. I’ve not been to any other shops lately, but friends tell me of similar experiences. Glad my safe is full, and that I have steadily ordered ammunition over the years.
I have to admit that it was a shock to me that this is the direction that people decided to go, instead of using the time to learn a new skill or start a new business.
“we risk a replay of 1992 and 1996, where both major parties will agree on most major issues”
This is slightly wrong. The rulers of both major parties agreed on most major issues.
The base of the Republican party had already started to figure out (in the second half of the W administration) that its leaders were mendacious liars and had no intention whatsoever of enacting the conservative measures they campaigned on. There was never going to be a border wall, for example, if the R leadership had its way.
Bravo
Good luck with that....
With no cops who will take away or guns?
If 50% of the country is totally brainwashed, including the majority of the two young adult generations, and most of those generations don’t believe in God or morality , how do you un-brainwash them? If if by force we can or could knock them out of power, we can’t keep a constitutional republic going at gunpoint. It has to be valued by the citizens. So that is where I’m so concerned. Maybe we can pull things out from disaster this time, but it isnt sustainable unless their hearts and moral character is changed.
I believe as well as religious revival, we must end the communist indoctrination in public schools and universities! All the guns in the world can’t fix a country if their hearts and characters are polluted with lies.
ANTIFA is looting & burning our cities.
Extremists demand we DEFUND the police.
All while @JoeBiden is KNEELING to leftists causing chaos in the streets.@realDonaldTrump stands for law & order, protecting minority businesses, and STANDING for our flag.
New ad: pic.twitter.com/sauu8OUgJ8— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 10, 2020
Dems are buying guns
You are the thread Winner! Right on!!
Donald Trump, God bless him, has only been a speed bump.
Remember the second Amendment. Scream it in their ears if you have to.
So you’re showing them your white flag? SHAME ON YOU
Right on
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