United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- In some ways, Joe Biden has only himself to blame for his lousy situation. Biden’s blunders have, for now, ensured the Second Amendment is safe on the federal level, especially with Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin again refusing to kill the filibuster.
But Second Amendment supporters must not miss this opportunity to learn the lessons from the errors made by our enemies. Is it a harsh word? Well, look at the records Biden and Kamala Harris have on the Second Amendment, and ask yourself, if even a hunter should view them as friends.
Let’s be very blunt – one of the reasons Biden is currently in the White House was because Donald Trump, for all the good he did, managed to put off a lot of people. This has been discussed before, but it clearly bears repeating: If you put off voters, you will pay. It may not be immediate, but it will happen – and it can happen at the worst time.
Remember, the 37 electoral votes of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia were decided by roughly 45,000 votes overall. That is a “no room for error” margin in the best of circumstances, and there is an investigation into allegations of ballot harvesting in Georgia, a judge ruled against the drop boxes used by Wisconsin in 2020, and an audit of one county in Arizona turned up a lot of questions.
Since New Year’s Day, and even before it, Biden has gone all-in on treating those who don’t immediately fall in line with his positions like crap. In Georgia, he pretty much said that if people weren’t on his side to eliminate the filibuster and ram through certain items on his agenda, they were traitors.
How did that work out for Biden? Well, he didn’t succeed in getting Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (W-WV) to stop putting country before party vis-à-vis the filibuster. He managed to anger Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT). Biden was even repudiated by one former ally, Tulsi Gabbard, in no uncertain terms over the way he is treating opponents of his agenda.
This is why I have been adamant in the past about the need for Second Amendment supporters to be aware of how they come across and what approach they use in the course of their advocacy for the Second Amendment. Second Amendment supporters have been hurt by those who were abusive in the past.
Being polite and showing respect never hurts Second Amendment advocacy.
Joe Biden’s actions over the last two weeks have alienated supporters. 2020 showed he had very little room to alienate supporters, and 2021 shows that it could make some real problems for Biden worse.
In the congressional midterms and the 2024 election, Second Amendment supporters have a chance to make real gains that could take advantage of the upcoming ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen and defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels. But that will only come if the lessons from the Biden blunders of the last two weeks are heeded.
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.
Unless Everyone of you keyboard warriors actually stands up off your comfy chairs and fights for our rights, the house and senate is all we have right now. Their vote is the make or break for our rights. Flood their emails with what we the people want and believe in and maybe we will have an honest chance at taking back our freedoms. Bickering back and forth at one another on this site does nothing. Take action now. Send your thoughts to someone who can actually do something about this.
OK, I grant you this: reason and disciplined debate do hold under normal circumstances. But we are not living in a period of normal circumstances. Long gone is our tradition of disciplined debate. The left has infused our politics with Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. While we play Roberts Rules of Order they do the end run and flip over the card table. Our political dialog is now emotion driven, fact free and deceptive. Good manners do you no good in a firefight. We are in a virtual firefight, an existential firefight with the Progressive New Left. One side will… Read more »
NO, little Harold, Biden is in the White House because the Commiecrats cheated like hell, not because Trump pissed off voters. Biden couldn’t fill a phone booth to have a rally, yet tens and hundreds of thousands of people showed up at every Trump rally, in numbers so massive that the biggest stadiums in the country could only hold a FRACTION of those who showed up!
We know what really happened, even if you lack the mental capacity and acumen to keep up with current events!
Being polite and showing respect to whom? The gun grabbing socialists, marxists, communists and other trolls of the world? NO WAY. I will show them the same sort of courtesy and respect they have shown me. And I’M A LOT BETTER AT THAT THAN THEY ARE. I’ve been on the front lines of this fight since 1982. I stopped being “polite and respectful” to those evil monsters a long damned time ago. And if more treated them how they deserve to be treated, we would have cleaned this horrid mess up a long time ago. In fact, I will even… Read more »
I am so tired of the Democrats and them getting away with everything. When are the Republicans going to step in and remember that they work for us its not the other way around. They are stealing from we the American people. We have to TAKE BACK AMERICA. They censor all the bad stuff, but when Trump was in, they attacked him in such horrific ways. They should be in jail. They lied about Russian collusion, had fake notes and they never were held accountable.Hunter Biden should be in jail today along with Hillary and the rest of the crew.… Read more »
trump was attacked in ways that should have put some demoncrats in jail, congress would have had less cons , we do need to be polite to people with questions, have had some left leaning people I know ask if I would protect them when the riots were going on. they now have guns and are learning best practices to protect themselves will I travel 100 miles leave my house a stuff to protect someone who until covid did not think I should have guns (their son has a registered mak10 and lives in the Carolinas bet they dont know… Read more »