82% Democrats Say Ban ALL Semi-Auto Firearms, 40% Want to Repeal 2A

82% Democrats Say Ban ALL Semi-Auto Firearms, 40% Want to Repeal 2A
82% Democrats Say Ban ALL Semi-Auto Firearms, 40% Want to Repeal 2A

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- This didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t happen in secret. In 2004 Democrats promised to “protect Americans’ Second Amendment right to own firearms” as part of their party’s platform. In 2008 and 2012 the platform said: “We recognize that the individual right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans’ Second Amendment right to own and use firearms.” In 2016 Democrats erased the Second Amendment from their platform saying they recognized “the rights of responsible gun owners”. Over the past few decades, the Democratic party moved more and more anti-gun.

Hillary Clinton (the defacto 2020 nominee for President and leader of her party) does not think there is a constitutional right to own any gun; and that Heller and McDonald should be overturned.

In essence, the Democrats are doubling down on a losing proposition.

  • Their 1st move to the left on guns cost them the South. (The left says it’s about race. In reality, it is about gun rights.)
  • The Clinton gun bans cost the Democrats 50+ seats in the Congress.
  • Hillary’s anti-gun position cost her the Presidency.

What I don’t get is how the left fails to recognize that this is a losing issue for them nationally. They fail to realize that you cannot force New York/California values on the rest of the country.

So the noisy half of the Democrat party want to eliminate your right to own a gun, any gun. Let me ask. What are you going to do to protect your rights?

The time to sit back is ended. Strangle this movement in its crib of you will lose your rights forever.

The fact is this is all about politics and power. The left realized that gun owners elected Trump. Rather than change their losing ways they are going full bore to destroy vocal gun owners and the NRA. To the left all 2nd Amendment groups are the NRA.

For the left being opposed to gun rights is nothing more than showing loyalty to the party elites. Rich white elitists are insulated totally from any real threats. The fact that 83% of all gun use is drug and gang related means any actions they take the will do nothing statistically to gun deaths. 50% of the counties in the U.S. had ZERO-gun deaths last year. In fact gun violence is an urban problem. 53% of ALL shooting are by young black men under 30. If you do the math 3% of the population does more than half the killing. To the anti-gun left only dead white kids are useful political props.

So what ARE you personally going to do? It’s NOT about gun violence it IS about expunging your rights for political gain. Stop and think about it then read the last two paragraphs of this article.

Remember you’re not alone, there are 120,000,000 gun owners in the U.S. WE are the majority. We only act when our rights are threatened. Most of the time politics are boring and a waste of our lives. We prefer our families and our jobs to politics. Now we have no choice. A little effort now means our children will share the same rights we hold dear.

So what can you do? Let your voice be heard, write your local newspaper. Call your congressperson and voice your support for gun owner’s rights. Don’t let the left bully you into submission. Let me explain one thing to you. They won’t stop here. 1st it is ARs than it is all semi-autos then hand guns and shotguns.

Find a pro-gun rights group you like and if you do NOTHING else donate $10 to the cause. Nothing less than the future of the Republic hangs in the balance.


About Don McDougallDon 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.

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VE Veteran - Old Mans Club

Gun Control is a nice tight 5 shot grouping, and I practice to achieve that with both hands.

My only hope is when I die that I won’t vote Democrat!

jvj

Repealing the 2A would require a constitutional amendment, and amending the Constitution would be extremely hard.

Second, the Supreme Court has already ruled that a total ban on private firearms is unconstitutional.

The author is putting on his tin-foil hat.

Jim Macklin

Hillary or the next anti-Bill of Rights President would or can appoint Justices. chuckie schumer will fast track conformation. A tyrant does not wait for a retirement, Justices who place the entire Constitution and its history above the UN would be retired with extreme prejudice. The FBI will investigate just like they investigated hillary, the Russians and President Trump. The Second Amendment words will remain but the Court will over turn HELLER and McDonald. and lower court cases that were against “good reason” or carry in public, or banning confiscation during declared emergencies or sale of ammunition would be declared… Read more »

MarkPA

Jim, and everyone else. How did we get to where we were in the last quarter of the 20th Century? We got there because we were asleep at the wheel. We were all content to mind our farms and shops, families and recreation. We couldn’t be bothered with what our legislators were doing pandering to those demanding government nursing from cradle to grave. The day of the return to complacency is inevitable. Yet, today, Trump is in the White House and Pence is poised to succeed him. Trump is a disrupter. Whether he does everything any one of us might… Read more »

Gregory Romeu

What most people fail to realize is that the very Split Second that any attempt to remove or otherwise physically alter the Second Amendment is exactly the SAME Split Second of WHEN the 2nd Amendment is going to open up full force. I believe that in some circles they call that Armageddon and what most people fail to realize is that both sides pro-gun and anti-gun will play badminton with the Second Amendment issue to keep the fight alive for an excused to siphon are billions of taxpayer dollars to fight both sides of that b******* battle. So what We,… Read more »

Jerry

Hasn’t anyone heard of the Dick Act of 1902 which says American citizens can own any weapon they feel necessary for their protection including military weapons. Why are they not bringing this up? It negates any argument about restrictions and bans.

Laseray

@Jerry, I took a look at the Dick Act of 1903 and I did not see that. I did see that the National Guard could be federalized and federal funds would be used to arm and pay them, along the same lines as the regular army. Can you provide a specific reference?

Bill Dunlap

The dem’s are pulling out all the stops, including stirring up the school kids whose teachers are probably 80 to 90% liberals in order to sway the votes in the coming elections. We conservatives had better consolidate our efforts to get the vote out or we may be as surprised as the dem”s were in 2016.

Jerry

Why is it no one mentions the Dick Act of 1902 which says Americans can have any gun they feel necessary for their protection, including military weapons. This destroys any argument the antigun people have.

M.

Re anti-2a legislate-whores of the past, present, & future: ammo/gun control = ahole

Clarence hartley

Why do you bother working on something that will never happen. Also you might check with the leaders of the NR A

And see what their opinion is. I think that if we were to limit rate of fire and magazine capacity , we might have a chance. Though I don t. Think that would pass either. Ps I was a Navy gunners mate 1953;1957.

Gregory Romeu

We don’t give an inch! NOBODY gets in the way of freedom and liberty, NOBODY!

Wild Bill

@Clarence, but you don’t have the power or authority to limit rate of fire or magazine capacity. Do you not realize that each of the amendments in the Bill of Rights is a limitation on government. When our Second Amendment Civil Rights are diminished, then the limitation on government is diminished, and government power is increased.

bunkdo

Democrats = gun bans. It has been their goal since the late 1980s, Vote accordingly. Destroy them in the polls and make their talk of gun control TOXIC to them

ob johnson

Go and get your local voter registration lists. See the ones voting democrat? Should you go out and shoot them? After all, your chances of killing a commie is pretty good and a 20% collateral damage rate is acceptable.

Jim Macklin

Not funny. Not appropriate. Trolls being paid by G. Soros would suggest mass murder just to make citizens look crazy.
Hopefully some district attorney or FBI agent will look you up and see if you are more than a troll in a basement in Moscow, Russia.

Michele Coatta

It was a joke so don’t get your panties in a wad soy boy

Gregory Romeu

f****** undisciplined, shit sucking weasle!

ruko

I think the Hildabeast was defeated in large part because of her stance on abortion. On Demand for Convenience and paid for by the government (us). Catholics who voted for her should ask themselves: If the Pope or Jesus could vote in this election who would they vote for?

Gregory Romeu

@WB, I couldn’t find the link to your response to, @PG,
“Author: Wild Bill
Comment:
@PG, How many troops in the field can you support? I bet that the answer is zero. Same with everyone else”

but I wanted to respond in kind and let you know that I can support a fireteam of 7, head to toe. Semper Fidelis!

Wild Bill

@GR, If you can, also, supply food and water, transport, POL, and coms for seven, then I am favorably impressed!

Woody Marvel

squad of 4 only, saw & 3 riflemen, 7 is too many for me, although a formidable force.

Gregory Romeu

7 is your standard infantry Squad.

one of the biggest problems we have in communicating on these types of issues and civilians getting in the way of military trained Personnel where civilians need to sit back keep quiet and pay attention.

Gregory Romeu

Food, water, not a problem, transportation? In a Grunt unit we take daily strides through the terrain, (20 mile / day minimums) but can transport 7 and all the gear, Comms could use upgrading, but even the best always needs upgrading, (Murphy’s Law), POL? Are you Air Force? I let each man deal with his own lube issues…

Jim Macklin

Common sense is meaninless since its meaning depends on who you ask and where and when you as them. How do you ask matters too. You can’t call people on the telephone who don’t have a phone. A letter or newspaper only works if the people can read and understand the language used in print. In the United States “common sense” gun control was written down and agreed to by the majority of the people. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not… Read more »

Woody

Outstanding!

James Higginbotham

what noone is addressing in the gun debate i feel is this. we the people have UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, meaning COMES FROM GOD, that PREDATE the Declaration Of Independence, and Constitution. and Congress or any state has NO ENUMERATED POWERS TO TRY AND DISARM WE THE PEOPLE, OR PASS EX POST FACTO LAWS TO DO SO. even if they did repeal the 2nd amendment, still DOES NOT AFFECT OUR UNALIENABLE RIGHTS TO ARMS. remember the Revolution really kicked off WHEN THE BRITISH, MARCHED TO CONCORD AND LEXINGTON TO DISARM THE MILITIA. and we all know how that worked out. were now… Read more »

MarkPA

Where is the opportunity to be found in this insight? I see two. First, what is the largest class of gun-deaths? Suicide. What will your politicians do to address this – the LARGEST – target? What COULD they do? We have two distinct audiences here: gun-owners; and, advocates for sufferers of mental-illness. The politicians MUST go after EVERY type of gun; even the single-shot shotgun or target rifle. EVERY gun is equally suited for suicide; so, there is no rational alternative strategy. Fudds beware; your politician is going after YOUR gun. The path to gun prohibition is the anaconda strategy.… Read more »

Walternj

Mark, First I agree with you wholeheartedly. I did some quick math. Took the deaths per year divided by 328 million Americans to see the reason Congress has done nothing until a tragedy like Lakeland FL. and children shamed them after a trauma. I looked at the CDC list qualified and sorted the categories. More simply, ~14,500 gun deaths in 2016 come to .0000442%. Congress on a whole does not move until the value is worth their time. Watch cspan any day to see hours of dead time. During a ” not debate” no one is in the room. They… Read more »

Dave Brown

This guy must take lessons from Hannity or Trump, and they are the masters at Lying. Now both the right and the left Lie, but they at least try to make it sound reasonable. You Sir, are not a Sir, you are a very little person that tells Lies, and you only do it for The Buck. Now before u say a word, back up the 82% and the other lies you wrote. Free Your Mind. Be Party Blind.

tomcat

@Brown Dave It sure would be beneficial if someone would take your keyboard away when you start smoking the wacky tobaccy or popping the pills. You could spend more time freeing your mind or tiptoeing through the tulips. You must be a troll and just post your crap to piss people off. What you say in your first paragraph is just a bald faced lie.

DBM

Jim, Guns rights are not a white thing. The right belongs to everyone. Go to a range in Orange County or Ventura an you’ll see a mixed bag of Asian and Hispanics filling the bays.

PASTORGLOCK

WHO’S READY FOR A CIVIL WAR?!!!!

Wild Bill

@PG, How many troops in the field can you support? I bet that the answer is zero. Same with everyone else.

Marc DV.

SATURDAY THE 14th LET YOUR VOICE
BE HEARD ! GO TO YOUR CAPITAL
SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT YOU !

Freebird

Pennsylvania gun owners better learn FAST from Florida and Vermont selling out by Republicans on gun control. Week one of the Harrisburg proposed gun law hearings in Judiciary Committee have been a non-stop parade of Democrats calling for all sorts of Bans, permits , taxes , fees and restrictions that do NOTHING but Harass the law abiding. One Rep. , Mike Schlosberg , of Lehight county went so far to say ; ” There are NO absolute Rights in The Pennsylvania or American Constitution ” ……….. say what ? Replay of hearings at —- Pa. House GOP dot com. https://www.pahousegop.com/58.aspx… Read more »

tomcat

Don says “That politics are boring and we don’t want to take our time.” That is a true statement and if we think about it there are many other of life’s necessities that occupy our time and thought processes. Especially when a person is working and raising a family there is more than enough distractions, so the people we send to D.C. are expected to do our bidding for us. That is why our tax dollars pay them. Unfortunately, they do not work for us, they work for themselves in most cases. There are a few good ones up there… Read more »

Charlie

I agree with most of the comments posted here, but those who advocate writing and calling your Congressperson and contacting your newspaper are fighting a battle which is already over…..and we lost. The Democrats control the Main Stream Media, the government through the “Deep State”, our primary, secondary, and higher educational systems. I have contacted, by any means possible, my House and Senate representatives, my State legislators, and my local newspaper regarding 2A rights. The results? Only one response which was a “canned” email acknowledging my request. These types of communications do not work and are just ignored. The tactics… Read more »

roger g

sounds like you might live in Washington state . I’ve tried that with our so called senators and got squat . murray and cantwell are for the Puget sound area only. these two excuses don’t give a tinkers damn about the rest of the state,why should they after all there is enough votes there to keep their sorry asses in congress !

Daniel L Michlig

They want Seattle to be the new Detroit.

Missouri Born

The main reason the United States is in the mess it’s in started with LBJ as president and his great society, he started the decline of the democrats with his ideas and laws plus the build up in Vietnam that split the country.
Every democrat president since has damaged the country and made the mess bigger.

Bud

Hitler and Stalin were both socialist until they came to power. Then they immediately showed they were facist dictators and their first move was to disarm the citizens. All under the guise of protecting the public. Sound familiar?

Albert DeRosa

All the politicians that want to ban firearms should go to a country that don’t have firearms like China or Cuba. They will then live in there fantasy world.

Gregory Romeu

No, they should be IMMEDIATLEY REMOVED,FROM OFFICE for,violating their OATH of Office!

Walter Ripoll

We slept through the first 6 rounds of a title fight. They have us on the ropes. If there is a way for we the people to write laws for Congress we need to find that loophole. Congress has written laws to protect themselves, and we let them. The last example is the omnibus spending bill. They wrote in gun laws knowing that the president would have to sign the bill into law. There was not one person in that room that could have read the 2k pages before the vote. They do the same thing ever time. Wait until… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Walter R, Yes, vote out the party hacks and rinos because this next election is to save the president. The socialist dnc wants to save the swamp and keeping a strangle hold on We the People, by impeaching the president.

Wild Bill

@OV, I don’t mind if they are women. But all that substituting emotion for research and thought is mighty scary.
Boy howdy, it got cold down here after it got done raining. I bet it was even worse in your neck of the woods.

Gregory Romeu

Voting out the incumbents is like saying I won’t come in your mouth. You don’t wait to vote them out of office if they are committing crimes and are in violation of their oath of office. You use your state Constitutional Powers to remove the predators by way of Notice and a Demand against them which will end up being a Willful Neglect of Statutory Duty, (A HIGH CRIME!) Then you hand the (Copies) of the paperwork over to your grand jury foreman which then empowers them and allows them to investigate your allegations along with any other crimes discovered… Read more »

martin

The Communist Party (formerly the Democrat Party) is slowly working toward the destruction of our Nation and Constitution through misinformation, a willing media and a corrupt educational (?) system that has become a governmental indoctrination machine. The attack on the Second Amendment and your gun-rights is just a part of this coordinated assault. When the Second Amendment falls, the remainder of the Constitution is close behind. This well-financed assault began the day after the Constitution was signed and has continued to this day. Point of information: Since the inception of the Department of Education, the US has fallen from #4… Read more »

Mark

Yes, they are confiscating guns state by state. Overconfidence is being asleep. How else would the Marxists have owned the schools and the media?

Sam W.

Yes, and in Oklahoma we are looking at a surge in retired teachers filing for elected offices. Thanks to the teacher walkout they were at the capitol with enough voters to file by petition, in the correct time to file for office.

Leo Smith

I say let us get on with the civil war and be done with the Socialist Democrats for good.

Lou

Don, If you haven’t noticed, they are winning lately.
This is not a losing platform and they are pushing hard.
America needs to wake up.

Wild Bill

@Lou, True, and wake up fast! The democrat party plans to take over the House, where the impeachment indictment comes from. The democrat party plans to take over the Senate, where the impeachment trial is held. And finally, democrat party plans to end the presidency of the man who is the last hope of a free America.

DBM

Lou, They’re NOT winning.. their just noisy. there are 120,000,000 gun owners in the US. That’s 50% of the voting population. If we rally we win.

James Slemons

ALL DUMBOCRATS NEED TO LEAVE OUR GREAT NATION AND BE AS DUMB AND IGNORANT AS THEY WANT T BE !!!

Marc DV.

Don’t get me started on Europe and their
gun laws. Or Australia either . Neither of ,
which I give a Dam about . They are not US !
We the People have our own gun grabbers
to fend off . Politics and Guns , Politics and
Abortion , Politics and and well Politics and
nothing go together ! So Politics Must be the ,
Problem ! Get rid of Politics and the world ,
Seams Just a little Brighter!

jim

“So what can you do? Let your voice be heard, write your local newspaper. Call your congressperson and voice your support for gun owner’s rights. ” Ummm, yes…. BUT…. You don’t get the demographics involved. The white population is in decline. The white population is also the main membership of the NRA and the main demographic in favor of gun rights. Surveys show Asians, Hispanics and blacks do NOT support the 2nd amendment. And which are the fastest growing ethnic groups in the USA? Asians and Hispanics. So all the lobbying is moot. Either have children and get them to… Read more »

DBM

I disagree. Hispanics love their guns. Go to a range in the OC its 50% asian. Locally were 50% Hispanics. Outreach is the real issue.

Wild Bill

@jh45gun, you write, “The white population is in decline.” That is not true, but it is a racist statement if I ever heard one, and I am sure that you did not mean to be racist. And those broad generalizations about the other races are equally false and prejudiced.
Why don’t you start over and write down what you really mean.

MikeDang

I cant tell you HOW many Asians love guns here in Las Vegas. The amount of Asians and Hispanics buying guns would shock you, I dont know where you get your info from but in Las Vegas that is a huge part of the business here.