U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams denied she lost her last bout against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018. She’s trying again, and there’s no denying her gun control agenda would be a disaster for Georgians’ Second Amendment rights.
Abrams’ antigun platform isn’t the only problem. Her Second Amendment hypocrisy is what should have Georgians hopping mad.
Abrams has spent more than $1.2 million on private armed security, all while calling for Georgians to give up their rights to protect themselves.
For Me, Not Thee
Abrams’ anti-Second Amendment platform is well known. She spent a decade in the Georgia state legislature, including six years as a Democratic minority leader, where she championed gun control. She introduced gun confiscation legislation deemed “some of the strictest gun regulation in the nation.”
The sheer callousness of her gun control agenda is revealing. Since December 2021, Abrams’ campaign has spent more than $120,000 monthly on security, Fox News reported. That’s two times the median household income of $61,000 in the Peach State. Firearm industry retail survey data revealed during the historic firearm buying stretch beginning in 2020, the average purchase price a law-abiding gun buyer spent was about $595.
During her current campaign, Abrams has shelled out what is the equivalent of more than 2,015 law-abiding Georgians legally buying a firearm themselves. Instead, as governor, she would push through more gun control rather than hold criminals accountable for their crimes. Abrams’ platform on crime and gun control is so bad more than 100 Georgia sheriffs criticized her support for defunding the police, soft-on-crime, and gun control policies.
Georgia voters voted at the polls once before, but they’ve also voted with their wallets. Since 2020, nearly 1.4 million Georgians have passed an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verification on purchasing a firearm, according to NSSF-adjusted NICS data.
You Again?
Abrams’ gun control positions earned her the long-running support of gun control groups. She supports a ban on the sale of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) that are commonly-owned, as The Reload reported. Abrams supports repealing the state’s Constitutional Carry law that Gov. Brian Kemp ushered through and signed. She wants universal background checks for private firearm transfers and imposing so-called “red flag” laws that don’t protect Due Process rights.
She told Axios her gun control plans include “obvious and common-sense gun safety rules that do not infringe upon anyone’s ability to carry.”
Those positions earned her the endorsement of billionaire and failed gun control presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action in 2018. Her extreme gun control views had her in consideration as President Joe Biden’s running mate before Vice President Kamala Harris got the nod. During the Veepstakes, Abrams told Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts she would focus on banning MSRs.
“We need to make certain that we have an assault weapons ban put back in place. It has worked before, and it will work again,” Abrams said. That, of course, is not true.
Running Strong
Crime and Second Amendment rights are near the top of voters’ concerns as Election Day nears. Gov. Brian Kemp has a gun rights record of running on. He signed into law Constitutional Carry but also encourages and actively recruits firearm industry businesses to relocate to Georgia. He’s been successful doing so. Georgia is home to at least 74 firearm manufacturers, and some major players recently announced facility expansions to accommodate their growth, including Taurus and Remington.
During the SHOT Show 2022 Governor’s Forum, he highlighted Georgia’s Second Amendment traditions.
“We’re working hard on economic development every day across the whole sector of the industry, and for me personally, we’ve approached that in our state for a long time,” Gov. Kemp told the audience.
“When you look at these manufacturers, and where their facilities are around the state, they’re in communities with loyal and some of the biggest customers. It would not be smart to break into a home in any one of these places.”
Current polling shows Gov. Kemp with a lead with less than a month to go. His policies helped Georgians’ median income growth outpace the national average. His work to attract firearm businesses has been part of that economic success.
Georgians recognize Abrams’ gun hypocrisy. On Nov. 8, they’ll head to the polls and #GUNVOTE, so they don’t risk their rights.
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Anytime anyone says their legislation does not infringe upon the 2nd Amendment, you can be damn sure that is exactly what it does. No exceptions.
Yep. They always show their big buts…
point out to this genius that the Remington 700 is a weapon of war and a common hunting rifle
Stacey Abrams is just another communist lap dog. Although it takes a much larger than usual lap!
She’d break most Communists’ laps if she sat on them.
Whole lotta USDA Grade A porker there……. Put Abrams with Cori Bush and one could feed the Biblical 5000.
About 3 or 4 weeks after Katrina rolled though NOLA, two of my faculty members (democrats of course and anti-Second Amendment–what else is in academia?) came to my office. They’d always been vocal about my possession of firearms but NOW they wanted to ‘borrow’ a couple because the city had become very unsafe. I informed them that I could not do that because if I ‘lent’ them firearms I’d be responsible for their use, misuse or becoming stolen and subsequently used in commission of crimes. They were upset because I was being unfair and because firearms shops in the city… Read more »
Coworkers or other acquaintances I’d definitely go the same route. On the other hand with family I’d have to make individual assessment of expectations. Even then… likely would just lend something not traceable back to me.
This is true.
Life is so beautiful when justice blossoms!
I have weapons of war [as I flex, and kiss my biceps..]
Hahahah.
Dont let the democrats see them they will want to confiscate you biceps
dont let the democrats see them they will want to outlaw and confiscate your biceps
It almost qualifies as livestock . ” Lipstick on a pig”
Hey I like ham, bacon, chops and pork as much as most — that thing is not a pig and likely poisonous. Calling her a pig is to insult a worthwhile, useful, and delicious, creature.
“Stinky” Abrams should stick to writing salacious romance novels, her best and highest calling.
Stacy Abrams is a pig, enough said!
Well Stacey does present a quite large target. How much gun control would anyone need to hit something that large? You could even shoot like the gangbangers do and still have a high likelihood of a hit. Maybe that’s what she’s afraid of, her very own people taking her out by mistake.
Nobody in Montana cares what that fat discusting split tooth pig has to say .” You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig “
No matter how ridiculous she is, she has clout on the national stage. You should care what she says, because she may be able to influence those forcing laws through congress. You may not comply, but you could also end up having to violently defend your rights. Far better to protect yourself, and all the rest of us, by helping destroy her politically.
Cant wait for Ms. Abrams to be forced to say “I’m going to take your AR15s away” which she will have to sooner or later.
Let’s see what all them Georgia Boys do.
This failed politician is a joke. Gosh, she thinks she’s the true governor of Georgia! Don’t people like this belong in a mental institution? Perhaps she and Biden could stay at the same institution, save money on security that way.
For sure, she needs mental help and needs it badly.
Stacey Aberams should forget plitics and work on her fat ass and dental work.
Only an imbecile howls about criminals while disarming their victims.
Exactly.
Call me a wimp, but I’d greatly prefer to win political battles instead of having to actually fight for our rights.
Stacey doesn’t want to take guns. Lol. There’s too many black folks in GA that own guns. I know because I was born and raised there. My parents still live in GA. They own plenty of guns. All Stacey’s family members are former LEOs.
Kemp is the one that has to go!! Ask Trump. There’s more on the ballot then just guns y’all!!
ANY elected or appointed official that does NOT defend and protect the Constitution of the United States MUST GO, if not be indicted, investigated, prosecuted and incarcerated for Willful Neglect of Statutory Duty.