Bellevue, WA -(AmmoLand.com)-The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today congratulated Republican Congressman-elect, Mike Garcia, for winning the election over anti-gun-rights Democrat Christy Smith and said the victory should serve as a warning to the gun prohibition lobby that their big bucks spending effort to fill Congress with anti-gunners is in trouble.
“There is a message in Mike Garcia’s victory,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “You can be a conservative, pro-Second Amendment candidate and win in California, a state dominated politically by anti-gun Democrats, in the legislature and governor’s office in Sacramento, and within the delegation to Capitol Hill.”
“Smith’s campaign was supported by the gun control lobby,” he continued, “but dollars don’t vote, people do. And people are getting tired of far-left politics that trample on fundamental rights, especially the Second Amendment. “Evidently,” Gottlieb observed, “the gun control crowd learned nothing from Michael Bloomberg’s disastrous presidential campaign, which revolved around his extremist gun control agenda. He spent more than $300 million and finished last, and that was among Democrat primary voters, nobody else. Now Bloomberg’s Everytown is planning to spend $60 million to flip Congress and state legislatures this fall, electing more anti-gunners.”
“Garcia won on a campaign promoting American values, including the Second Amendment,” he added. “Those ideals seem foreign to the gun ban bunch, which thinks the constitution is for sale to people with the most money.”
Garcia’s victory this week proves otherwise, and it’s a warning that gun control is not the winning proposition far-left Democrats think it is.
“Garcia’s victory is also a message to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that her party’s gun-grabbing agenda could cost them the House this fall,” Gottlieb stated. “She couldn’t even protect a Democrat seat in her own state, which should raise alarms with vulnerable Democrats in other districts all over the country. “And Joe Biden should also be worried,” Gottlieb concluded, “because his anti-gun-rights agenda is not going to play well in the critical battleground states, where voters are tired of being attacked by politicians like Biden who want to take away their rights.”
About CCRKBA
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Here is the way I vote for a person running for office;
Dose the person REALLY believe and support the American Constitution.
Does the person like guns!
Dose the person vote FOR MY way of thinking.
Is the person a HONORABLE.
Is the person TRUSTWORTHY.
Has the person LIED!
Amen! Landslide coming in Nov!
Folks are getting tired of the Democrats treating the 1A and 2A as a dog treats a fire hydrant.
The Garcia victory should be viewed as a sea change event nationally. Although this district was traditionally a conservative district it went blue in 2018 due to a special election. The key external influence at that point in time was a media and deep state war on the Republicans early in the Trump administration. Key to understanding the conditions at that time was one simple truth. Leftists and New Left Progressives are simply a better class of criminal that conservatives or libertarians could ever hope to be. The only way to cut through the progressive wall of lies is with… Read more »
At this point the lesser of evils is all we can do. It’s better than the alternative of all out civil war.
It’s something I hate to think could happen but every day I wonder just how far off that could be.
Democrat governors just used this pandemic to take away religious freedoms, and free speech. Think about it. For those of you who thought gun control was a one dimensional fight, think again. ANY official/civil servant who violates Article VI knowingly should be held for high crimes. We cannot have it both ways, violate one, violate them all.
Winning one skirmish does not decide the outcome of a war. One data point does not decide the future. This is not a trend…….but it could be. It will take a very long time to take back the communist states, perhaps never. It took decades for the communists to take over California and will take at least as long to throw them all out. I am a conservative living in a southern state that almost elected a communist for governor last election. My state is following the same trend that turned California blue. We are but one election away from… Read more »
This is how The American People take back our country….VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS IN 2020…
Vote – destroy the gun grabbers
Don’t Vote – destroy your fundamental rights
Simple, n’est-ce pas?
Oh good Lord Alan.
Look at the full picture — as David Codrea has:
https://waronguns.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-depends-upon-what-meaning-of-word.html
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Republican’ Is
Republican flips House seat in California special election
You wonder what would have happened if they’d switched last names.
He repeats all the platitudes, but I hear no real specifics and wonder what he means by “significant military weapons.” I wonder how he’d do with this…
And the absence of specifics here troubles me for obvious reasons.
I need more information before I can put this in the “Win” column.