Opinion
Bullock looking at Montana through the rearview mirror.
Montana – -(AmmoLand.com)- Ex-Montana Governor and 2020 Democratic Candidate for U.S Senate, Steve Bullock’s comments came in an August 2018 response to a question posed to him during a CNN State of The Union.
Host Jake Tapper asked Bullock if he would support an “assault weapons ban, a ban on some forms of semiautomatic weapons.”
Bullock answered, “You know, I would, Jake.”
Some people depend for success on being able to fool others – swindlers, con men, fraudsters, and too many political climbers. That applies to Montana’s Governor Steve Bullock (D-Montana) who is term-limited in Montana but now grasping at the straws of a national office. He is running in 2020 to occupy the Senate for Montana and knock out one of the most pro-gun Senators in the USA, Sen. Steve Daines.
In order to get elected to statewide office in Montana, Bullock had to claim enough support for the Second Amendment to fool some swing voters. If he had not successfully asserted support for gun rights, he would not have been elected to any statewide office in Montana.
We are now informed by Bullock himself that he lied to voters to get elected Governor of MT. He has only as much respect for the Second Amendment and the Constitution as is needed to get elected to the next public office on his quest. With his new aspiration to become a Senator, he has abandoned all pretense of supporting the Second Amendment and conveniently argues for wholesale gun control. Bullock’s only perspective on Montana at this point is through his rearview mirror.
Eric Sell, Editor-in-Chief of Statehouse Review picks up on this when he opines: “Even though it may result in the end of a future political career for Bullock in the state of Montana, he apparently no longer cares. Bullock is young, affable, ambitious, and sees anything lower than a presidential cabinet-level appointment as beneath him.”
Chameleon Bullock should be political toast here now that he is moved by political convenience to recant the lies he told to get elected in Montana, but as 2020 has shown you can not count on anything working as planned.
A better question may be, will Bullock’s opportunistic political philosophy affect the Nation? Maybe. Bullock now has a new audience to fool, and he’s good at that. He will talk with conviction about how he may still possess a gun once owned by his great grandfather, and how his ownership of that gun may be respected as long as he keeps it inoperative and government overseers permit. While crafting and telling these new lies, Bullock will be surrounded and protected by government agents carrying exactly the guns Bullock would not allow politically unreliable peasants to have. Bullock will expect these government agents and their swarms of sycophants to stand ready to impose Bullock’s new political philosophy on the rest of us, at gunpoint if necessary.
Listen to Bullock in his own words advocate for a gun-haters wish list of gun control.
As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Observers on the national stage will do well to know that Bullock has no Montana ethic, shares critical behavior with the common con artist, and will say anything to gain advantage and succeed in his quest for higher office and more power.
That is Bullock’s demonstrated legacy from Montana.
Gary Marbut is President of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, a highly successful political advocate for Montana gun owners. Marbut is accepted as an expert in state and federal courts concerning firearms, self-defense, and use of force, and is the author of Gun Laws of Montana.
We were fooled here in florida. His name is brian mast a rino for sure. He got in by saying he was progun. Now he wants to ban ar15s. Vote the scumbag out
Liberals like Bullock’ will lead America into another civil war’.
It appears that Montana has somehow become infiltrated with “other” influences, moneyed ones. Look how much of both Montana and Wyoming prime real estate has fallen into the hands of Hollywood types, looking for their own “sanctuaries”, while funding leftist causes and castigating those, like us, who refuse to kiss their rings. The demographic changes are directly responsible for the loss of these states into the hands of “progressive” liberals and leftists. And coincidentally, the more you allow illegal immigrants, who are going to be beholden to the Democrats when they finally hand over the vote to millions of them,… Read more »
What! No, do not vote for democrats! I m a democrat and I think You have to be crazy to vote for today’s democrats. They are not democrats according to them I m a conservative! LOL. I love guns. My party is lying completely! Wake up Montana. #WalkAway.
Those of you complaining about Californians turning your state blue, you already had a large population of Democrats, it just took a few more to tip the scale. “Fight the enemy inside your wire.”
For those of you trying to flee your hell hole, stay and fight, pay attention to who you are voting for from dogcatcher on up. You allowed them to get where they are, you can get them out. Be vigilant your state belongs to you, it’s worth fighting for.
Shame on every Gun Owner who votes Democrat.
If you vote for a Democrat, you might as well surrender your second amendment right, because that is what you just did. Your first amendment right will quickly follow.
Shame on every Gun Owner who votes Democrat.
Ask him one simple question: why do you not trust the vast majority of your fellow citizens? Usurpers of liberty need to be called out in cold, direct language. He represents the clearest form of Madisonian faction. Conspiring against the liberty of your neighbors is subversion.
People in hell want ice water,Eff Bullock and his fellow traveling Marxist’s.
I hope all the democratic party will stop with the gun control thing. I am a democrat and I know guns don’t kill people, people kill people with guns and I carry a gun to protect myself from people with guns. How many times do you stupid democrats have to be told that. Get off the gun kick. I will always have a gun just like the criminals, because when we don’t have a gun they will, remember that, maybe you won’t but I will
The problem seems to be that a lot of Californians move out of California to avoid the overrunning of illegal aliens and they seem to bring their liberal left leaning tendencies with them (at least the one’s that have left California in the last 5-10 years). I would hope that Trump would build the wall and clean all of illegal aliens out of California. In spite of my hard feelings for California, California does not belong to Mexico and they should not be allowed to be a sanctuary state to ruin the rest of the country. As far as Gov.… Read more »