U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- The problem with outlandish threats against law-abiding gun owners is they get repeated. That’s especially true when gun control groups seize upon careless remarks by President Joe Biden that the U.S. government would consider using actual weapons of war against those who dare to believe the Second Amendment protects the nation against a tyrannical government.
Newtown Action Alliance’s Po Murray tweeted, “A gun-rights activist from Newtown told me he needs an AR15 to defend himself from a tyrannical government. I told him the CIA has drones with missiles. Hellfire R9X/“knife bomb”/“flying Ginsu” was used to kill al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.”
The irony here is rich. An antigun activist that wants to disarm law-abiding citizens for exercising their right to keep and bear arms is repeating a threat of lethal force – and – comparing those gun owners to international radical terrorists.
She attempted to clarify her tweet another three days later, tweeting, “Let me be clear. The government is not coming for you with a drone.”
Ramping Rhetoric
Newtown Action Alliance’s Murray isn’t a stranger to inflammatory and hyperbolic language. She labeled Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis “a racist homophobic misogynistic power hungry fascist,” and tweeted that NSSF is a “Trumpian right-wing gun lobby.”
For the record, NSSF works with elected officials on both sides of the aisle. That’s harder these days, as most Democrats adopted a radical anti-gun agenda that would violate the U.S. Constitution and deny law-abiding gun owners their rights.
Murray, though, thinks it is perfectly fine to threaten those gun owners with lethal force from Hellfire-equipped drones. In her estimation, those gun owners exercising their God-given rights that won’t consider surrendering to her radical gun control agenda are no better than terrorists.
If the line about using U.S. government-owned actual “weapons of war” sounds familiar, it’s because that was a line repeated again and again by the Commander-in-Chief himself. President Biden said in 2021, “If you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”
War Drums
President Biden made the off-the-cuff remark just months after he ordered the hasty withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, leaving behind more than $7 billion in military equipment – weapons of war -that was transferred to Afghan forces, only to be seized by the Taliban.
CNN reported, “More than 300,000 of the total 427,300 weapons the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US military withdrawal, according to the [Defense Department] report. Less than 1,537,000 of the ‘specialty munitions’ and ‘common small arms ammunition,’ valued at a total of $48 million, are still in the country, the report states.”
President Biden wasn’t the first to suggest open war against U.S. citizens. Failed presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) flippantly tweeted those gun owners that would dare consider opposing a tyrannical government attempting to seize their lawfully-owned firearms would face a “short war” because “the government has nukes too.”
This is far from responsible speech. President Biden and Congressman Swalwell were irresponsible for threatening U.S. citizens then, and it was irresponsible for Newtown Action Alliance’s Murray to repeat it again.
This isn’t searching for common ground to arrive at real solutions. This rhetoric is dangerous and reveals the hostility these gun control groups and the politicians they support have for the Constitution and those who exercise the rights protected by it.
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If they want to use WMD’s so be it Guerilla warfare worked in Vietnam and Ukraine so it can work here……MOLON LABE
MOLON LABE , I am going to need a battery of Tomahawk missiles to defeat Biden’s tyrany . We all need some to defeat the communist movement on American soil . Let’s water the tree with them and put a end to the bullshit . A government that fears its citizens is a governing body we could trust again . They are using fear and threats to control the masses . Time to shut them down !
John, this relates directly to the other thread where you ask why anyone would want military weapons. It reminded me that I forgot to mention the threat made of nuclear weapons being used against Citizens of the United States by our own government. The socialists,communists/democrats are so close to destroying this once great country that they seem desperate.They just can’t wait. I would ask why anyone does not want some real weapons of war? If I could have just a tiny fraction of the weaponry given to our enemies by our president, I would feel much safer It appears to… Read more »
And they call us law abiding firearm owners “domestic terrorists”?
The government will prove to us that they aren’t tyrants…. by acting tyrannical? That’s quite the switcheroo. 🙂
But yet how is it any different today, than from these ancient words?
“11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” First Kings 11
Note also what happened to that King that was so pleased to brag about his tyranny. That’s in the Second Book of Kings. Two more good reads for the list.
“The problem with outlandish threats against law-abiding gun owners is they get repeated.”
Similarly, the problem with political jokes is that sometimes they get elected.
The funny part about the jokers this time is they have never fleshed out how, exactly, they envision using nukes against America’s gun owners that wouldn’t make any hypothetical situation worse.
Not sure what makes NSSF “Trumpian”. Just more hate-association like calling someone a nazi.
This will continue till we vote those in power out of office and that might prove more difficult in 2022. Election fraud is real it is a proven 17000 votes in Arizona now that have been found all democratic.
Let’s get one thing straight here. The second ammendment is not just a gun owners right, it’s EVERYONES right to keep and bear arms. Including the idiots who want to disarm us. Pose this question to those who want to take our guns; Can you say without any doubt whatsoever that you will never want or need to own a gun, especially when a criminal breaks into your home and starts killing your family? The police aren’t going to help you. Are you just going to allow yourself to be a (dead) victim? If the answer is yes, then it’s… Read more »
Warrior12.com offers a T stating, “I refuse to be lectured by a government that armed the Taliban.”