by Don McDougall
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- So, here are three quotes. Care to guess where they come from?
- “We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is ”
- “We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!”
- “If I had my way sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be ”
The top two come from the new Senate Minority Leader (Chuck Schumer) the last one the minority leader in the House (Nancy Pelosi).
Had the election gone the other way they would be Majority leader and House speaker with Hillary Clinton as President. (And some of you people think the NRA overreacts when they said this election mattered!)
The Democrat Party is NOT listening to the people; they are ignoring the Pew Study that showed 77 percent of the people who voted in the last election support the NRA.
They’re back to their New York /San Francisco echo chamber where they ignore the rest of the country. Even POLITICO says that Schumer is a tool for the anti-gun movement.
With gun ownership exceeding 100,000,000 people and the fasted growing groups of new gun owners being women and minorities. You would think the Democrat Party would drop by 5 yards and punt on this issue.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
What the Democrats’ Get WRONG!
Unlike the NAACP, GLAD, Planned Parenthood or LA RAZA the NRA is not a partisan political organization. It supports all politicians who support the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution, Democrats, Independents and even Republicans.
Those top four partisan political groups supply support almost exclusively to Democrat candidates. (Opensecrets.org)
As the Democrats’ moved to the left, they left the NRA behind. McGovern, Humphry, Kennedy all had the backing of the NRA. Until the likes of Schumer and Pelosi got into politics guns were a non-issue.
Anything the left can turn into a wedge between people and issues, they will use. How many of you even knew Nixon wanted to ban handguns?
The fact is most anti gun liberals don’t get this.
Gun owners don’t care what Chuck Schumer has registered as; we do care that he wants to ban and confiscate guns. We care that in the past 30+ years he has never wavered from his anti-gun position.
The anti-gun left sees the NRA not as a group of patriots who care about their rights but as a GOP version of GLAD.
A group that will sell out their core beliefs to support the Democrats. Nothing could be further from the truth when you discuss the NRA.
So, gun owners, friends, fellow shooters. Here they come again.
After a two-year campaign with Hillary Clinton calling for gun buybacks and confiscation the same old tired lies are back with Pelosi and Schumer at the helm.
This time we’re ready!
Consider 120 million people voted; that’s 77 percent from PEW represents 92 million voters who support the NRA.
Compare that to the count of 100,000,000 gun owners, and we got a hell of a turnout.
The networks built on Facebook and other systems must be kept alive and strengthened. Take an anti-gunner or new person shooting. Bring them over to our side.
Outreach to groups like the LBGT community. There is a growing pro-gun segment there, nourish it.
Renew your NRA membership or upgrade to life members. Lastly, read Ammoland and keep informed.
About Don McDougall:
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA”committee. If he’s not at the range you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
IN the year 2020, would anybody still support a total ban on private firearms?
I am leaving NJ after 30 years simply because I cannot have concealed carry in this State. I will be moving to a red state soon. I personally recommend that people who are concerned about protecting their loved ones from ideological maggots and illegal immigrants, and low life American thieves, rapists, and murderers to move out of NY, CT, NJ, CA, and all other communist controlled states.
IMO, THE””POWER’S TO BE”” ??? IF PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, ***U.N. TROOPS** THOSE GUYS ARE FROM ALLLLLLL U.N.NATIONS THAT DON’T GIVE A “”RAT’S ASS”” ABOUT US, PROBABLY CAN’T STAND AMERICAN’S ANYWAY. THOSE ARE THE ONE’S THAT WILL BE CALLED UPON TO TRY!!! & DO THE DIRTY WORK!!! *PELOSI* WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET A PAT ON THE BACK FROM THE D.N.C. & GET ATTA GIRL!! AND SHE’LL RUN AROUND THE CAPITAL OR WH JUST TO GET A PHOTO OP W/ “” BARRY SORROTOS OBOZO THE KINYUM BORN ZEBRA EVEN DROP TO HER KNEE’S IF HE ASKED, I THOUGHT SHE CRAP… Read more »
Who would Pelosi send to confiscate firearms? I do believe if she had her way she would be starting the 2nd Civil War. This woman is bat shit crazy.
Janek, the only rational thought that I ever seen Pelosi exhibit, was her seeming rebuff to Harry Reid’s amorus advances on her.
Many Democrats like myself are pro 2nd amendment,
Any politico that wants to confiscate firearms should be required to do it personally….lets see if the can walk the talk !
These Dems aren’t being foolish. they know that an armed populace is a danger to totalitarian government, and they will continue their efforts.
In the united States, 100 million gun owners own 350 million guns and 200 billion rounds of ammunition. When a politician speaks of banning all guns, they are preaching to their base who wish to hear such things, but everyone knows it’s a pipe dream. Who’s going to do the disarming? The army WON’T do it (and legally they can’t). The police fall into two rough categories: those who think the people SHOULD have arms for their defense, and those who wish to stay alive. Neither of them will want to be your official disarmers. Who’s left?
We really need to find a way to get these dinosaurs out of public life. They are not serving the public. They are hindering the rights of law abiding citizens.