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.
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 »
Being polite does not mean being a doormat. Being an active proponent does not mean being a jerk.
Ilegitiment clownshow Joe Biden won nothing Harold you are confused and pushing Democrat talking points . The steal was in in 2020 and the courts have failed the American people . 81cmillin people did not vote for that buffoon so quit pushing the lies of the left . You sound like Lizard chamelion Cheney !
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 »
Being passive and polite is what emboldens aggressive gun grabbers and their useful idiots. Now that the gun owner/ gun rights voter is destined to have their votes diluted by illegals voting for democrats, all the manners in the world aren’t going to stave off more infringements. It’s the nature of mankind to fight for their beliefs and if we don’t face it, we will be defending our homes with bats and kitchen knives. Incremental appeasement is a loss for gun owners.
Lizard chameleon Cheney
Trump “loss” was NOT due to those he “PUT OFF”… It was due to the biased left media, leftist lies, massive voter “irregularities”, lost or misplaced ballots and in general underhanded Dem dealings. FEW were put off or turned against Trump, HE had this nation doing GREAT in ALL aspects. The Democrats played the proverbial nutshell election game with unprecedented secrecy and falsity. If you or anyone else didn’t realize that FACT you are braindead. Those stupid enough to have ACTUALLY cast a vote for him have seen the actions of what they have done by helping the added dead/illegal/… Read more »
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.
I’m not kissing anyone’s ass to express myself & my right. I hope they do push even harder to remove the 2A. We’ll see where the tire hits the ASSphalt. I’m tired of empty threats. And the scam. Pay me to fight for your right. You appease to these clowns, CLOWN.