USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “Condolences pour in from New York state, Hudson Valley with passing of former President George H.W. Bush,” the Daily Freeman reports. “U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Bush was ‘a fine man and even when he opposed your view, you knew he was doing what he thought was best for America. His yearning for a kinder and gentler nation seems more needed now than when he first called for it.’”
“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo … called Bush ‘a statesman and patriot who dedicated his life to serving his country,’” the report continues.
They’ve pulled this act before.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo join others praising John McCain,” Newsday reported in August following the senator’s death. The tributes from the left were effusive – if one believed them, one could believe Democrats admire “good” Republicans, as opposed to the “deplorable” kind. The thing is, when alive, such affectionate warmth always seemed to disappear whenever an opportunity to grasp more power arose. Suddenly “moderates” would find themselves attacked as “rightwing extremists” and worse.
The same held true in life for President Bush, and in death, the less restrained, the mask-off socialists, are calling him a racist for his part in exposing the truth about Michael Dukakis enabling convicted murderer Willie Horton to commit assault, armed robbery and rape while enjoying a weekend furlough.
The lesson here: No matter how much you “compromise,” it will never be enough, and while Democrats will happily accept every concession you give them, if you balk when they come back for more (and they always will), prepare be smeared and reviled.
And “compromise” Bush did, especially on the Second Amendment. He very publicly quit the NRA (and played right into gun-grabber hands) after Wayne LaPierre referred to ATF as “jack-booted thugs” (with everyone conveniently forgetting the term was coined by Democrat John Dingell.
Why Bush was in the NRA in the first place – aside for political advantage – is a fair question, especially after reading attorney and author Dave Kopel’s Gun World commentary from 1996. He voted for the Gun Control Act of 1968, wanted to ban affordable handguns, imposed an import ban on semiautomatic firearms demonized as “assault weapons,” wished for authority to ban domestic models, proposed “high capacity” magazine registration, offered a deal on the Brady Bill and then turned his back on the people who helped elect him by closing the White House off to gun advocates.
“All the above information …was ignored by the media when reporting Bush’s resignation from the NRA,” Kopel noted. “Instead, Bush was lauded as a solid friend of the Second Amendment who was standing up for principle against the NRA.”
Guess what that made anyone to the right of him?
As we know from experience, for creatures lusting for power – creatures like Schumer and Cuomo – those infringements would never be enough. And that should give pause to any Republican foolishly believing if he only gives his “friends across the aisle” what they want, they and their media promoters will start saying nice things about them, too.
Maybe, temporarily, or when they’re dead – if it serves the agenda of moving the middle more to the left…
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
In addition to being a field editor/columnist at GUNS Magazine and a contributor to Firearms News, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Don’t forget about “RUBY RIDGE”, brought to you by G.H.W. BUSH, and his Un-Justice Department!
Randy Weavers Dog and Son MURDERED by the FBI & ATF, for a trumped up U.S. Government charge against Randy!
Don’t forget that Randy Weavers wife was MURDERED while holding a dangerous baby!
That was Bush’s doing, leading up to months later Clinton’s Janet Reno’s MURDERING all the people at WACO!
Great Government we have! EH?
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Barry Goldwater
we have what we have today because we have too many “moderates’ and not enough ‘extremists’, as those words are used by Barry Goldwater.
no compromise is warranted with those who would take your life, freedom and/or wealth.
Many here need to learn and reflect on history on why he pulled his membership from the NRA. Bush criticized Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president at the time. This guy compared our federal agents to Nazis after Waco! In addition, the illustrious LaPierre disrespected federal agents who were on the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. I voted for both Bushes, and as I am a proud American, and Texan. The GWD.
Bush 41 lost in 1992 because of Ross Perot, pure and simple, but there were other factors. It wasn’t because of the lack of an endorsement by the NRA. No, he was no friend to gun owners but many voters voted for him anyway in 1992 because, as Neal Knox put it at the time (referring to who Clinton would put in his administration), “Bush’s worst will be better than Clinton’s best”. Also, Bush alienated and even frightened evangelical Christians who supported him in 1988 with his repeated references to a “new world order”. Bush and his administration had contempt… Read more »
Daddy Bush, the world’s biggest drug dealer, did the “pen and a phone” dictator routine decades before Chocolate Jesus. Most Conservatives yawned as he banned almost 150 models of firearms from import without Congress. RIH with McStain, you filthy old monster.
THANK YOU, DAVID!
For all the mealy-mouthed fawning over pappy bush, this is the first and only piece I have seen that spoke the truth.
Cold, hard fact: Everyone has their central issue. You can serve your country for fifty or sixty years, but if you routinely slight a particular cause, to those who care about that cause, your decades of service are MEANINGLESS!