Posted on 01/05/2019 9:14:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Bloomberg, Oprah, & co. had the destruction of the Second Amendment all planned out.
First, they would bring a bunch of kids out to a billionaire-financed free rock concert in Washington on a warm spring day.
Then, they would push an Orwellian gun confiscation measure and sugar-coat it as a "red-flag law." Articles and segments in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Fox had already touted these gun confiscation programs. And anti-gunners believed -- perhaps inaccurately -- that they had duped the president and significant parts of the gun lobby into supporting them.
They had gun confiscation bills introduced in 37 states, reportedly. (Five states had already enacted them in earlier years.)
But, with the exception of the "swing state" of Florida, they completely and utterly failed on this and every other element of their stated agenda in every "red state" and every "purple state." (Vermont, a "deep blue state" which had been pro-gun in the past, also flipped.)
Make no mistake about it: Bloomberg spent over $100 million dollars. But, other than the two outliers -- plus the 10 most anti-gun states in the country -- there was no gun confiscation legislation, no universal background checks, no gun or magazine bans. We killed their gun confiscation ("red flags") in roughly 30 states. In other words, the gun control movement's stated objectives failed federally and in all but the most repressive states (which had already effectively banned guns).
And in "reddish" or "purple" states like Ohio and Pennsylvania -- where we totally demolished the gun control agenda -- the Giffords organization was forced to cling to tiny "face-saver bills" to argue that momentum had swung in their direction.
Now, Bloomberg and Giffords claim that the election results represent a "tipping point" for them. And, to that end, Bloomberg put up to $5 million into a single race which was already considered to be competitive.
But, according to my study in late November, a flip of 54,543 votes in 17 districts would have shifted control of the House from Democrat to Republican control.
54,543.
That number has changed a little bit now that California 21 has come in. But it hasn't changed by much.
The bottom line? In a year when Democrats spent the better part of $5.4 billion -- much of it from billionaires expecting to be anointed "president" as a result -- and in a year which was touted as UNIQUELY favorable to the party out of power, we are now told by the Left that the results lock in a comparable victory in 2020.
I never take anything for granted. However, legislatively, I wouldn't bet that gun control is going anywhere on the federal level. We have a House which can pass whatever gun control it chooses. But we will successfully filibuster it in the Senate.
People have underestimated the "gun lobby" before -- always to their detriment. Democrats lost the House in 1994 over this issue -- after a generation of dominance. They lost the presidency when we delivered GOP wins in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the Florida panhandle in 2000. And, after Republicans defeated all federal gun control in 2013, they took control of the Senate the next year -- after we ousted a handful of "red state Democrats."
So welcome to 2020. "Commence fire!"
Rebellion against Amendment II of the Constitution is a serious matter:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, SECTION 3.
Rebellion against the Constitution.
It’s a democrat thing
The gun lobby defends. No one ever won anything by defending. When do we go on the attack - roll back some of the gun control laws that have been passed over the years?
A good and positive article for us, the good guys.
Do you have a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county? If not, why not? You’re talking about going on the offensive. Wouldn’t that be a good place to start?
It is a genuine grass-roots lobby - one of the few. It therefore is not going away.
Our county is overrun with yankee “migrants” and illegals and home grown leftist gun hating soccer moms and brain dead Democrat voting blacks. So no we don’t have a pro gun sheriff and we aren’t likely to get one. The majority in our county voted for the vile dispicable Stacy Abrams who promised to confiscate semi autos if she were elected governor.
Consider migrating. You’d be welcome in South Carolina, a short drive from GA.
SC does not allow full auto. Can’t go there I’d have to leave ma deuce behind.
“SC does not allow full auto.”
Of course it does. Col. Moultrie was allowed in with 10 eight pound cannons he stored in his barn. Check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Moultrie
The canons were not full auto.
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