Georgia – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Second Amendment will be around in some form or another in the future. But what form will it exist in? Will it be a right that we are able to exercise in a manner close to what the Founders intended? Will it be something that is there, but regulated to be, for all intents and purposes, non-existent? What happens in the Georgia runoffs could decide that future.
You’re probably sick of hearing calls to re-elect Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. In some ways I can’t blame you. Had there not been some very serious issues regarding the process in November, Perdue would have been already re-elected alongside President Trump. But we are dealing with two runoffs and winning both is crucial.
The election of either Jon Ossoff or Raphael Warnock would be a massive disaster for our rights. Both have a clear hostility towards the Second Amendment. Just in the short term, their election would make it more likely to see anti-Second Amendment legislation enacted. But over the longer term, it would mean potentially more stuff to get rid of, making that road longer than it needs to be.
There should be no mistake about it, we are facing a much longer and harder road than many of us thought we’d be dealing with two months ago. Some of it was to be expected from Silicon Valley censorship, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that anti-Second Amendment extremists weren’t going to just roll over once Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed. In fact, they are openly talking about packing the court to neutralize the pro-Second Amendment judicial nominations President Trump has made.
If Mitch McConnell runs the Senate, court-packing never gets a vote. If Chuck Schumer ruins the Senate, then it could come down to Jon Tester and Joe Manchin, who have not been very good on the judicial nominations front. Do you really want to trust the future of the Second Amendment to those two Senators?
The logical answer to this question is, “No.” It is better to have Mitch McConnell in charge of the Senate to shorten the road needed to restore not just our Second Amendment rights, but our republic as well. That requires building a firewall, and build that firewall to protect our rights means that Second Amendment supporters need to back Loeffler and Perdue, then also support the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund and their Institute for Legislative Action, in order to be ready for 2022 and 2024.
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.
No, Harold, it does not. The future of the Second Amendment is the same as the future of our natural law based Republic. We shall have it for as long as we can keep it. If Americans are willing to resist the incoming Harris/Biden regime and are willing to pay the price of resistance we shall keep our rights. But the vast majority have never been in a decent bar fight much less a civil war. They will roll over. The few, the proud, the 3% will fight to the finish. All else spectate. Semper Fidelis
Harold, have you contacted Perdue since your last article and asked him about his views on Red Flag laws and Universal Background Checks? Seems like a good time to force him to commit to a position. Ask him why the firearm community should vote for him.
Being a Republican is not nearly enough reason.
I’m not sick of hearing calls to elect Perdue. I’m sick of the NRA and writers not forcing Perdue to commit to a position.
Hey Harold. Where are you going to be during the the Patriots Revolution against the communist takeover of the United States ? Real Americans will need to stand and fight and fight to win. Surrendering to the communists is not an option. A senate loss in Georgia matters little. The communists wont be stopped at the ballot box. Not this time or next. But if we fight them now there wont need to be a next. Surrendering ones arms on the hope you can live another day, or keep your home and new truck is not how America fends off… Read more »
You are 100% correct.
“Our” government continues to fail the people….
Really, the future of the Second Amendment, the Constitution, and our Republic, all come down to Georgia? Lord knows I am so very happy your capitulating ass was not around at the founding of our Nation. You would just be another kneeling kings man. Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech applies, yet none of you courageous writers dare utter such thoughts. Why?
It’s hilarious that Harold think supporting the NRA is going to save the 2A. Those clows are responsible for every federal infringement we have.
Stick it Harold, it all comes down to We The People.
“The firewall should have been built when we had a president, house and senate all in control at the same time. They should have made constitutional carry the law of the land and put laws in effect where it could never be changed.” And there is the problem. In two years the Republicans did absolutely nothing. McConnell is just a big communist as the rest of them. Long ago the people started letting the government control the country as opposed to the people controlling the government. It is high time the people gave McConnell and his fellow swamp rats a… Read more »
the atf needs to be regulated to tax collection and out of guns they are a branch of government out of control, they make laws without being congress supreme court should shut them down law as written is the law clarification needs to come from congress
A second civil war? “It will never happen here.”
We fought the Communists in Vietnam. The enemy is still the Communists, only thing is, they are here in our own country. Many are in our governments, state and federal. Communism is a cancer that need to be eradicated by all means necessary. “Freedom isn’t free.”