United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- In an ideal world, when something like Uvalde, Parkland, Newtown, Buffalo, Orlando, or Las Vegas happens, our Second Amendment rights would not be up for debate. But the hard truth that too many Second Amendment supporters fail to understand is that this is not an ideal world.
Sadly, anti-Second Amendment extremists will come for our rights – and they intend to get them by any means necessary. Don’t take my word for it: Listen to Representative Mondaire Jones (D-NY) say it out loud. He’s not going to let a Supreme Court ruling come between him and his goals.
He’s willing to do “whatever it takes.” Are Second Amendment supporters?
Well, in this case, “whatever it takes” can mean a lot of things. For Jones, it means being willing to blow up our constitutional system to get what he wants – dismantling protections for the rights of an unpopular minority. The hard truth of the matter is that gun owners in general – and Second Amendment supporters in particular – are an unpopular minority, especially among those with outsized influence in the fields of education, pop culture, and the media.
This ties into another hard truth: Second Amendment supporters are going to have to work hard to overcome the constant stream of prejudiced propaganda that is aimed at convincing our fellow Americans that our Second Amendment rights have to go. Furthermore, Second Amendment supporters need to understand that stopping the likes of Mondaire Jones is going to be a hard task.
Second Amendment supporters will need to do “whatever it takes” to keep him from abolishing the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court. The hard truth, though, is that “whatever it takes” will mean altering our approach to how we do things.
Would you be willing to vote for a candidate along the lines of Susan Collins to keep Charles Schumer (or someone worse) from being Sente Majority Leader? Would you take a realistic approach to general elections? Will you learn the lessons from past elections? Will you reach out to members of Gun Culture 2.0? What sort of planning are you doing for elections beyond the 2022 midterms? Are you developing the statewide candidates for future elections?
If the answers to those questions are “no,” then you’re not doing whatever it takes to stop Mondaire Jones. If anything, you’re making it easier for him to wipe out all the hard-fought gains Second Amendment supporters have made over decades.
Second Amendment supporters need to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels. But doing that is going to take strategy, tactics, and hard work. The hard truth is that it is an open question of whether enough Second Amendment supporters are willing to do what it takes to beat the likes of Jones and Michael Bloomberg.
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.
You must stop telling real RKBA supporters what we must do, because your ideas are terrible.
Please go away.
So, question for you. Will you invite Mitch McConnell to be your guest speaker at the convention next year? And if so, the AR-15 he waves over his head, with that rifle be a real AR or will it be one of those Californicated monstrosities? Just wondering. And what about John Cornyn? Will he be ushered in the back door in drag so the mob does not tar and feather him? And Lindsey Graham? And Lisa Murkowski? And Susan Collins? Why not invite the whole progressive wing of the Republican Party and give them a great big cardboard check from… Read more »
Harold, I see you are taking a sound and well deserved thrashing in the comments here. Rather than join in, let me try to educate you as to your error. I don’t know how old you are, but we did try the things you advocate, ad nauseum, for decades. It is when we stopped trying those things and drew a hard line and said “No more!” that we began making progress. You ask us to go back to tactics that have been tried and have failed, repeatedly. Please study the history of gun control and the battle over it in… Read more »
I just reread this article; and damn Harold, this one really sucks.
One more time again, Harold. Support for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), as mentioned in the Second Amendment, is not the same as support for the Second Amendment. RKBA is one of those creator endowed rights mentioned by Locke prior to 1688 and by Jefferson in 1776. Since the Second Amendment didn’t even exist until 1789, RKBA cannot derive from it and SCOTUS ruled exactly that in US v Cruikshank. “17 The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of ‘bearing arms for a lawful purpose.’ This is not a right… Read more »
Damn, another feeble minded take from Harold. It’s amazing how hard you work at getting people to support butters and fudds.
I wonder if the SCOTUS DECISION was LEAKED to these ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL “permanent practicing politicians” who cannot or REFUSE to adhere to their OATH-OF-OFFICE! IF or WHEN it was LEAKED explains a lot of the RAMMING THROUGH of this ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL “so called”, INVALID, “law”. As the Constitution states; IF a law is passed and is CONTRARY to the Constitution, that “law” is NULL AND VOID!
Unfortunately, choosing the lessor of two evils is what we face in California when there is a one party majority with a veto proof government. For instance, when I got the call to urge my senators or law makers of some anti-second amendment infringements, who should I have called or who did I call: Diane Feinstein or Kamala Harris? Tough choice. Becerra or Newsom, well you get the idea.
I couldn’t care less what the NRA has to say, Shall not be infringed says it all for me and no amount of loud mouth Politicians are going to change that fact those clowns come and go with the summer circus and the NRA they’ll bend over and take it every time as long as Wayne is running things
Yes, Harold, we will fo whatever it takes; that is why we are so determined to clutch our rifles and our bibles.