United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- The 2020 presidential campaign will heat up soon, and it culminates in November with the presidential election. But the debates will soon be giving way to the primaries. This is where the rubber will start to meet the road.
The fact is, while polling and debate performances can give us a sense of which anti-Second Amendment extremist President Trump will face this coming November, the early primaries will sharpen the focus. Right now, there are four top-tier contenders: Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Senator Bernie Sanders. Thankfully, Michael Bloomberg seems to be flailing and behind those four – but none of them are likely to say no to the Bloomberg agenda.
Some of them are markedly more dangerous. Warren has vowed to sic the IRS on the National Rifle Association. Now, Andrew Cuomo’s regime in New York has been doing similar investigations, issuing more subpoenas in recent weeks. This is bad enough – Letitia James has long opposed our Second Amendment rights. But now, add the IRS on top of this, and the NRA, rather than fight anti-Second Amendment extremists, now has to fight what James and Cuomo have openly admitted is an effort to silence dissent from their anti-freedom agenda. Warren has that same objective, stripping away our right to make the argument.
Buttigieg is arguably pushing a more dangerous agenda that Warren. He was an early adopter of packing the Supreme Court, and according to a piece in the American Thinker, the threat may not be stopping there. A radical alteration of the courts could take place, leaving Second Amendment supporters facing a hostile landscape. Worse, with the courts becoming rubber stamps.
Compared to that, one-time supporter Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, a long-time foe of the Second Amendment who “reaches out” to hunters, are not so bad, but would they adopt such measures like those pushed by Warren and Buttigieg in order to placate anti-Second Amendment extremists? That is an important question – one Second Amendment supporters should hope remains unanswered.
But what also will come into focus will be who we will face, and therefore, the strategy and tactics that will be required to keep a pro-Second Amendment president in office. Face it, what might work to beat Elizabeth Warren could very well fail against Joe Biden. Similarly, a line of attack used against Buttigieg over court-packing might not be as effective against Bernie Sanders. Then again, we could see a sudden rise by another candidate – be it Amy Klobuchar or Bloomberg.
The fact is, though, that the early primaries will bring a lot into focus for Second Amendment supporters. What has been theoretical will become very real. But these days, there are ways to help prepare for the fight that is coming. Be aware of the records of those running for President, not to mention Congress or the state and local offices. Get the facts on Second Amendment issues. Make sure you are registered to vote and register other Second Amendment supporters to vote. Educate your fellow Americans on Second Amendment issues. Then, repeat as necessary until we have secured our rights.
Defending our rights is a lot of work – and doing that work can be the difference between keeping our freedoms and watching them be taken. Second Amendment supporters must be willing to keep in mind how their defense of our rights comes across, to support NRA-ILA and NRA-PVF, and to join with other Second Amendment supporters.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
Harold, please go away.
How does that come across?
it don’t, he doesn’t seem to know what it means.
I am to the point, like the VA folks, whatever you think you can do to me BRING IT. Suggestions, JIC- Have a Plan, have a back up plan, and have a small group you CAN TRUST and make sure all have the skill sets needed, and keep your goodies separate places.Never all water in just one bucket, caches. Water/Food/and medical supplies and someone that is extremely well trained in minor/major First Aid VA is the RED LINE, what happens there(will come pass in Jan) the movement has already started to spread across the nation, all over.( I think the… Read more »
https://soundcloud.com/user262008952/we-wont-back-down-virginans
Democrats don’t know when they have pushed it too far, as we can see in Virginia. And they have no one to enforce what they are trying to do to America. If they don’t wise up and respect the Constitution soon, they will start CW2.
One side has HUNDREDS of millions of guns & retired vets. The other side can’t decide which bathroom to use. I like our chances.
Well said!!
Thanks.
I’d rather have a root canal than watch those Democrat morons. I’m feeling the same way about reading any more of Harold’s bullshit too.
With all due respect… this article says nothing (we don’t already know about the dem candidates)… The article makes no point. It makes no argument to support the title of the article. We should watch the primaries? Why??
Shut up Harold, no one here is interested in your shilling for the Vichy NRA & Radioactive Wayne.
Everyone, be sure to sign the DUMP HAROLD PETITION!!
https://chng.it/Sjs8VzLz
Good one WF 🙂
Seem to be from the same neck of the woods. Both in opinion of Harold and geographically. Spend any time at Big Hollow?
GOA IS THE REAL DEAL………………JOIN NOW.
Half the price of NRA and 100x’s the political battles fought.
I have called the NRA ILA many times never ever spoke to anyone with a say.
I call GOA, 50-75% of the time Eric Pratt answers and we talk,Larry is usually in D.C. door to door with the Pro’s and Anti’s.
Only Congress can change the SCOTUS. Butthead would have a hard time convincing Congress to add five more Liberal Judges. A Bill would have to pass both Chambers. But he won’t be President anyway. None of them can win against President Trump.
If only what you say were true…..
Why would anyone want to watch the Primaries? Yeah I just got off work with a cold beer and want to relax for a while……No wait, I want to get totally Irate watching a bunch of non-Americans argue about who’s gonna take away the most citizens rights and charge us for it so they can give it away to illegals……No you watch it!
The socialist, communist, demoncrapic left has already stated their goals. Any, every, righteous man and woman has to be set against them. Every so often, history repeats itself. So, here we are, about to relive the revolutionary war and for the very same reasons no less. It’s coming and I doubt there is any way or hope of stopping it. So, if you value your lives, freedoms, rights and hope, there simply is no other choice, arm up, carry on.
Watch early primaries? Why? There is no democrat that isn’t a menace to America. If you speak to, associate with, or do business with anyone supporting democrats in any form YOU are a traitor. There will be no victory in talk, it is time for ACTION.
Exactly. What waste a minute of your life listening to their BS? Harold should not even try to present himself as any type of authority nor give advice.
Following Harold’s advice is a sure path to the same results of years past. Think of him as the Tokyo Rose of WWII.
Not to mention he forgot to mention each of their plans for firearms, and his strategy was non-existent, Bribe-em Biden wants to ban sales of AR variants and force registration of existing arms, creating a confiscation list and subjecting every one to a $200 stamp and ATF rules on travel, etc, and then mandate “smart weapons”. Warren wants to massively increase taxes on both ammo and guns, to drive manufacturers out of business, and price guns and ammo out of reach of the poor, while also banning “assault weapons” and requiring licenses to own firearms. Just a few facts he… Read more »
Virginia has a law proposed to no longer zone for single family homes. They want everyone living in population dense cities for “the environment” and because they state having your own home is racist!
Look what VA is doing! https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/
Here’s a little nugget of truth for you. There is not a single Democrat or Republican presidential candidate that supports the 2A.
Stag, you hit the nail square on the head. AMEN HA LA LUE AH !
I think for Harold, it will also be an oxygen tent. Or at least a portable bottle. I can’t picture him at any more than a couple hundred feet ASL. Often he writes as if his brain is already oxygen deprived, even down at sea level, on whichever coast he chooses to live on.
Maybe we’ve just stumbled upon his problem… permanent Hypoxia.
We can help him save some oxygen for his starved brain. Sign the petition, please. https://chng.it/Sjs8VzLz
Already did. First day. I’m one of the eight. I clicked the button to show my response too, but it didn’t take. And my inquiring mind wants to know WHY? And I also would like to know, why only eight? That seems like an almost crookedly tiny number.
Ok, good, glad you signed, be sure to share, but currently we’re at 15 signatories. Not too small considering that only a few of the many readers at Ammoland are regular commenters. Also, we just started doing this a few days before Christmas. It’ll get rolling by the time new year’s is here.
The way that I see it,,,if you don’t vote, you don’t have a legitimate voice in the fight. As for the NRA,,,I am a Life/Endowment member,,,how stupid can they be for staying in NY. Move the headquarters to a 2nd Amendment friendly state. If nothing else it would show that we will keep our money where we are appreciated.
Because of what happened on Dec 18 2019 (230 individual counts of treason against this country) what we need to be thinking about is voting not with pencil lead but another far more effective lead.
Why do I need to watch the debates? I already know that my choices are few and none. I can vote for a Democrat, who openly tells me that they will come for my guns and my gun rights; or I can vote for Trump, who tells me he will protect my Second Amendment, but will be on the bandwagon calling for taking of my gun rights, maybe my guns, certainly bumpstocks, at the next Government-sponsored, false-flag, mass shooting incident. Or, my third option is to sit the election out at home, let the chips fall where they may, and… Read more »
@G, I concur in part. Who would waste precious time watching the national socialist democrat debates? As to DJT, those same socialists have been tutoring the Donald on “due process” , and I think, that he, now, has a better appreciation of basic fairness.
I’m not convinced that sitting things out is the best option. Hope you and all patriots had a Merry Christmas.
Hi Wild Bill! Thank You for your comments. After watching Trump do the opposite of so many things promised over the last three years, I am convinced that The Deep State ran at least two candidates in early November of 2016, and that one of them did win. As with Daddy Bush, I have seen too many marks of a traitor with this one and do not consider him worthy of my vote a second time. Trump has convinced me that the system is hopelessly rigged against “We, The People”, and that we will never vote our way out of… Read more »
True BOTH parties the the same coin, but are using sysops to herd the sheeple.
Sadly for them there are way too many who are WOKE and have been for years.
Welcome to the ranks of the awakened! From here on, there is lots to learn as you reject the lamestream media’s “spin” (false narratives that they just make up). Now you need to find alternate sources of information, and cross check their stories against known sources too. There’s a lot more CNNs out there than just the one. All the major media sources are owned by four omnicorps, so naturally they only give the viewers the information that their masters say to. My advice is look up the interrelationships between the corporations in “The Corporate Handbook”. Since that’s a dead… Read more »
OFC he was. Walt Disney was an unmarried, childless, man who kept kiddie drawings on his refrigerator. Now, what are those all the classic signs of? Pedophilia, that’s what! OFC, this was all unknown back in the 1930s as he became such an icon to the sheeple. So ignorance might be an excuse for our great-great grandparents, but that’s no reason to keep on worshiping him now that we know better. The problem is, there are many who DON’T know any better. Everything now is just a cult of personality. Pick a “Grand Poobah” and follow him… right into bankrupcy… Read more »
Study of the secret societies is the study of human history, minus all the censorship. It’s where the truth lies, which is why a mere mention of them gets so many upset. I lucked into it. I was always interested in money. Not just in making it, like most everyone else, but in everything financial. As I studied the history of money, it led me into the secret societies, since they make sure they are always put in charge of as much of it as possible. Its the club they use to keep the masses in line, the same as… Read more »
Agree Unca’ Donald needs to Read the Const / BOR’s,Federalist Papers, and esp 46, and the AMENDMENTS.(if he wins and TURNS on the BASE his ass is grass.
I noticed his ass was one of the FIRST to scream DUE PROCESS(laughed my butt off, I thought you hypocrite) of course he had no clue he was being disingenuous.
@G; Yep! Stay at home like many Americans in Virginia had done. Look who PURCHASED the government offices with the help of OUTSIDER NAZIS!!!!! Get your BEASTY OFF THE COUCH, GO AND VOTE!!! We Americans, who do OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND DUTY, CAN AFFECT a POSITIVE vote outcome!!!!!!
Hi Laddyboy, and Thank You for your comments! I agree, the elections in VA were purchased by a (some) nasty person(s), no doubt! I did not follow their elections but something I have noticed here in SC and in our National elections for too many years now, is that more often than not, our choices boil down to being between a turd and a piece of sh*t. That is the best comparison I can think of. The Democrats are usually batsh*t crazy but the Republicans are more often than not, treasonous RINO’s, who will jump on board with the Democrats… Read more »
Well to a large degree I have to disagree. I personally think voting Donald J Trump into the executive branch a very positive vote. And above all good for this wonderful nation. Perhaps the most positive thing to happen to America since Ronald Reagan or maybe Lincoln. Furthermore, no American president has ever accomplished so much in so little time with so many fighting against his every move as President Donald J Trump. If Hillary Clinton had won we would be on the way to a communist state by now and a stacked supreme court. If not already there. A… Read more »
As long as we can feel that our votes will count, everything will be mostly okay. When we can’t feel that our votes count, when we can’t feel that the laws apply to our elitist rulers the same as they will be applied to us, then the republic will require a probably violent change.
Better start stocking ammo now then buddy, because your vote isn’t worth shit now.
It’s actually worth a negative shit now. Electronic voting machines have the known ability to be accessed from outside and reprogrammed to count votes cast as whatever the hacker desires (or is ordered to program in by his corporate master at Diebold). So a vote for Trump can be just counted as a vote for Killery (or whoever) instead. The only way to combat that, is to never use a voting machine. The machine can be programmed to count your vote for whoever the programmer chooses, so request an absentee ballot instead. Fill it out in your own hand, and… Read more »
“Votes don’t matter. Only he who counts the vote matters” -Josef Stalin
Too late to vote there, but Nov is coming and I think we will see a RED turnout LANDSLIDE, and I do not want Trumps ass claiming HE’s saved our 2nd Amendment rights!.
I like him better than the others and voted for him(what choices do we ever have?).
NO ONE is going to save the 2nd except WE THE PEOPLE and the barrel of millions of guns.
Mao Zedong the ONE thing the murdering Bstd got correct.
Probably the first step should be to rattle sabers. No more rally’s with unarmed attendance. No more reaching across the aisle to find “common ground”. It doesn’t exist. Start becoming vocal about not being able to vote for ANY politician that doesn’t flat out state they are against all infringement. Posing with an EBR at a news conference required for maximum effect on the MSM. It is my belief that the amendments we all hold so close to our hearts are ordered in such a way as to create a series of reinforcements for the ones that are listed before… Read more »
Congress Members can be IMPEACHED,don’t forget that.
Quit complying to unreasonable orders like wearing certain shirts unless it is law.
Yes there is a reason why the proposed new ‘laws’ (really statutes, which are not the same despite the authority’s pretense that they are) in Virginia include the provision; “3. Assembles with one or more persons with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with any firearm, any explosive or incendiary device, or any components or combination thereof.” in SB64. They KNOW that that is the next step. They’ve already seen it happen in Bunkerville NV. They have to stop the awakening by any means necessary. They’ll fail (because lefties have no… Read more »
If your governor says not to wear that or have the signs, and they comply, they are fools. He has no authority over what you wear, and compliance gives the media the opportunity to state there is no one who supports the 2nd, as evidenced by the lack of signs and pro-gun shirts.
This God help us if it does come to pass won’t be a CW2, it will be the 2nd American Revolution.( I just found out that in VA alone there are over 600,000 Vets.)
The knowledge and skill sets in that state is mind boggling.
That and pay close attention to one of the services a Mr. Wu provides in a made for TV show called Deadwood.
@Grigori – The parties are open organizations. Yes it takes money and connections, but even you could join the democrat party and run for office. Given your stated positions on various topics, I highly doubt you would get far – but no reason for you to be any more open or honest about your political positions than any of them are. Run as a democrat – but vote independent and vote for freedom. Must admit I’m lazy, but just voting is a lazy way out and refusing to vote is an even lazier out – even though an individual’s vote… Read more »
Grigori, you do realize there is a third party that supports the 2A, right?
Which one? Libertarian? Constitution? Going back before I was born, over sixty years ago, the only Presidential winners have always been either Republican or Democrat. Not sure about before then, but since LBJ ran for his first term, The Deep State has been sure they had a candidate running in at least each of these parties, perhaps more, in each Presidential election. While I generally support most Libertarian positions (except “open borders”), I have found the party to generally be a joke with regard to its ability to win any elections at any level, save for a very scattered and… Read more »
Of course not. Little Harold is such a loser he has no family life to occupy his time on this holiday of holidays. Everyone – EVERYONE – needs to sigh the petition!
https://chng.it/Sjs8VzLz
USA: West of Norad would be in the vicinity of Grand Junction wouldn’t it? You wouldn’t happen to run a blacksmith shop called “Black Bear Forge” would you?
Rural Electric already put my ranch off grid. No one lives there now, the land is rented out, and so the house power was shut off. There was a wind storm (Montana, go figure) that took down the power lines going in, so they just took them out. Can’t leave all that copper just laying around. They’ll have that. Then they sent a letter, after it was all done, saying that if we didn’t sign back up for power before the letter was sent, they’d come have the wires. Good luck fighting that scam. It’s the old “too late now”… Read more »
I still go the ranch a few times each year. There’s a few acres of trees (planted by my Grandpa in 1910ish) right behind the house, and now a small whitetail herd lives in there. Its really heavy cover now, after a century of undergrowth. 10-15 grain fed whitetails free for the taking 200 feet from the house! How much better does it get than that?
I used to do that too. We have many cattle raising locals so I made friends with one and would have him raise me a hormones and antibiotics free steer once a year. I’d butcher them myself. All boneless because I won’t use my metal bandsaw on meat. I miss T bones, but tenderloin and strip loin (or whatever that other half of the T bone is called) are good too. But now I bought a small herd of my own and have them at my home a few miles from the middle of nowhere, instead of 67 miles out.… Read more »
Did you notice that, now that we discussed it here in public, Harold has dropped the childish pastel cartoons as a masthead? It’s now gone to photos instead, like the other items. I bet they think we won’t even notice.
They think they’re being sooooo sneaky! Be vewy, vewy, quiet. We’re hunting wabbits…. 🙂
And somebody, somewhere figures that’ll work, and we’ll never even notice. Makes you wonder what goes in such a head don’t it? Cause whatever it is going on in there… it ain’t thinking. Something akin to kool-aid sloshing around in there perhaps?
@USA – Sounds like a great time. Please do be careful if you ever chose to come down to sea level. Going up can be stressful for those not acclimatized – but stress is obvious and one automatically slows to compensate. Going down can be deadly for one who’s blood has ‘thickened’ for altitude… No symptom, just random blood clots at any point. So – just hang at ~5k for a week or two before heading of on your beach vacation!
Back when all the Californians surfed to Denver? 🙂
Just remember to overamp their vision monitors. That’ll short ’em out and then you can make jukeboxes out of them.
I’ve long ago became “Grampa Funk”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCiqKRnQL0
I fully support sicing the IRS on the NRA. They’re a make Wayne LaPierre rich organization, not a non-profit one. Just what we know publicly is damning. What an audit shows should be even more so.
@Nanashi – As little respect as I have for WLP or NRA – I must respectfully disagree. To do so would be to cement IRS’s position as a political pawn to be used as a political weapon. Precedent matter! Whatever else you think of the IRS – I hope we can agree that it must remain an impartial enforcer and totally restricted to tax law. Members can call for an audit to show how NRA has been spending our money. If WLP is caught skimming, IRS could certainly go after him for unreported income in parallel with civil suits and… Read more »
No offense meant, Finnky, but do you actually believe that the IRS’s position as a political weapon was not cemented long ago? Like, before either of us was born?