Opinion
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The last month of my life has been an eye-popping education of real life. I can’t even begin to describe how discouraging it is to see the things I’ve seen and to know what I now know firsthand. Seeing the Democrat machine in conjunction with a treasonous fake media, look directly into a camera or computer screen and blatantly lie to the American public is disconcerting.
Someone needs to be held accountable.
Back in June, I participated in Tombstone, Arizona Freedom Days celebrations, an annual event that celebrates the 2nd Amendment and our Bill of Rights. It consists of celebrity appearances, meet and greets, town hall forums and culminates with a parade through the historic and dusty streets of that old west town. MLB legend and good friend, Curt Schilling and I spent three full days with some of the most down to earth folks you’d ever want to meet. During our stay, Brandon Martin, a Republican running for Congress in the AZ 2nd District asked Curt and me to endorse his campaign publicly and to appear at future events. We both agreed.
The first event we attended together two weeks later, consisted of a classic meeting with paying constituents, followed by dinner and a town hall Q&A session in Tucson. The next day consisted of a trip to the Sierra Vista police HQ to attend another town hall meeting with Cochise County Sheriff, Mark Dannels, and County Prosecutor Brian McIntyre. Along with the residents, we were updated on the state of border security and illegal immigration along with local efforts to stop the inflow of criminal migrants and of course, drugs. To say the meeting was eye-popping is an understatement.
With a (literal) front row seat, we filmed the sheriff as he described local efforts (working with the federal authorities) to contain the influx of smugglers across the vast and mostly unprotected border across hundreds of thousands of acres of private property. We saw hi-definition intelligence footage of armed cartel members in camouflage, carrying radios as they stayed in communication with spotters atop mountains inside Mexico and on the US side of the border. We saw the dangerous garbage and human toll it takes on the smuggling victims, including photographs of young cartel mules who are tortured and punished when their mission fails.
We saw the Second Amendment in action. We heard from ranchers who carry rifles and handguns day and night in their ongoing struggle to stay safe and secure on their land, in their homes and the buildings on their properties.
We met and heard from Sue Krentz, the widow of Robert Krentz who was famously and tragically murdered on his property, a 34,000-acre cattle ranch outside Douglas, AZ in 2010. We heard from a resident after resident during the Q&A of the sheriff and prosecutors expressing their deep concern about the ongoing Democrat attacks on our right to bear arms. They were terrified of so-called red flag laws that can be used to confiscate guns in direct violation of due process rights, and they reminded the sheriff that they are miles away from first responders when SHTF.
All of them sought reassurance that their sheriff wouldn’t take their guns in violation of their constitutionally protected rights to own them and use them for their defense. They were reassured by their sheriff but remained wary and skeptical of a vocal group of Americans who would disarm them and leave them helpless. Many wondered aloud and angrily why there is a political party in their own country, putting the safety and security of criminal aliens above and beyond their own. They listened in sheer frustration as the county attorney explained his job under the constitution. It was a raucous meeting.
It was hard to hear. It was hard to see. It was proof that Socialists masquerading as Democrats are pandering and lying to America. It was proof the fake news media is doing everything in its power to keep you from finding out what Curt and I witnessed firsthand. I thank God that Sheriff Mark Dannels and the rest of those brave men and women, many of whom we met, are on that border in defense of our nation every single day fighting not only the criminal invasion of America but an American political party that is enabling the misery.
You can listen to my interview with Sheriff Dannels here:
and you can watch a real-life rancher tell you what the lying American media doesn’t want you to hear.
Mark Walters
About Mark Walters
Mark Walters is the host of two nationally syndicated radio broadcasts, Armed American Radio and Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense with Mark Walters. He is the Second Amendment Foundations 2015 Gun Rights Defender of the Year award recipient and co-author of two books, Lessons from Armed America with Kathy Jackson (Whitefeather Press) and Lessons from UnArmed America with Rob Pincus (Whitefeather Press)
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Mark, I think this rancher would make a great guest on your radio show for an hour.
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