“He argued that citizens’ ability to defend themselves may be compromised as well, pointing to a tweet from Mamdani saying, ‘We need to ban all guns’,” Fox News reported, citing political commentator Dave Rubun warning “his fellow Jewish Americans … that they should flee New York City if Zohran [Kwami] Mamdani becomes the new mayor in November.”
“I mean, regardless of what your feelings are on guns or the difference between, you know, a semi-automatic and a handheld or whatever, ‘ban all guns,’ I mean, no, that’s a constitutionally guaranteed right,” Rubin added. “So he is a radical of radicals.”
It’s clear Rubin not only doesn’t understand guns, he doesn’t understand that all infringements are radical, and Mamdani is doing nothing more than articulating a position founding prohibitionists freely admitted before more sophisticated propagandists for gun bans figured the best way to eat an elephant was a bite at a time.
Of course, the goal has always been to take your guns, “semi-automatic and handheld or whatever.” Follow that link and hear it from the author of the 1968 Gun Control Act, and the head of what would later become the Brady Campaign.
As for Jews feeling like the Democrat Party is abandoning them and fearing “pogroms” from factions like those represented by Mamdani defending “Globalize the intifada,” the late Aaron Zelman, founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, would have had little sympathy for “bagel brained Jews… bleating vociferously.” After all, despite the clear historic nexus JPFO has presented documenting the correlation between citizen disarmament and genocide, Jews nationwide voted almost 80% for Kamala Harris, who had made “gun control” a centerpiece of her campaign.
You get what you vote for. Good and hard. And some want it gooder and harder.
Those include the neoMarxist rabbis supporting Mamdani, bringing to mind nothing so much as the Mensheviks of the Russian Revolution, who thought they were on to something until the Bolsheviks started “liquidating” and showed them what real treachery and ruthlessness was all about. It’s hardly out of line to extend the analogy to include “Hitler’s enablers,” so-called “conservative” German Jews who supported the Nazis, and to kapos and camp functionaries.
PolitiFact is tripping all over itself to deny Mamdani is an actual communist, despite his threat about “seizing the means of production” (which one leftist academic dismisses as “lightbearted hyperbole”). And his proposal for city-run supermarkets evokes nothing so much as the memory of Soviet bread lines. What he does own up to is being a “Democrat Socialist,” and that makes fair the rejoinder: What the hell’s the difference?
Al Jazeera tries to explain, but fails by (deliberately?) ignoring what the Democrat Socialists of America, which endorses Mamdani, is hiding. Just as gun prohibitionists fall back on propaganda terms like “commonsense gun safety laws” to mask a violence monopoly goal, focusing on what Mandani hasn’t called for (yet) ignores the words of their “founders.”
Like the Good Book says, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” They’re all “democratic socialists.” Even the “fascists” they accuse Republicans of being. And to those insisting totalitarian collectivist regimes always result death, deprivation and misery is because “we have’t tried real communism yet,” of course “we” have—it’s just that once in power, those ruling aren’t about to give up running Karl Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat.” They know they’re riding the tiger, and what would happen if they loosed their grip.
No doubt they want to mask what they’re about to a new generation of useful idiots, but thanks to the Internet Archive, we can still see lyrics for some of DSA’s movement songs, with inspirational sentiments like:
Are you sleeping,
Are you sleeping,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
And when the revolution comes,
We’ll kill you all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
Pay attention to who they mean, just in case you’re not clear on why those behind Mamdani want to ban all guns.
Noting Mamdani is a Ugandan-born (he holds dual citizenships, which makes swearing the required oath the the Constitution an oxymoron in itself) Muslim of Indian descent whose father declares suicide bombers should not be “stigmatized as a mark of barbarim,” another observation becomes obvious: Any “immigration” law or policy that contravenes the Constitutional mandate required in the Preamble “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” by admitting ayone not committed to founding principles is not just illegitimate, it’s treasonous.
All this makes it more than fair to ask “Who, besides an in-your-face subversive or a useful idiot (plenty of both in NYC), would support this character, especially considering he hasn’t demonstrated the professional capacity to manage a hot dog street vendor cart, let alone “the financial capital of the world. The answer should surprise no one: Powerful “mainstream” Democrats, beginning with the head of the Democrat National Committee claiming a “big tent” excuse.
Follow him up with no shortage of local, state and national Party luminaries including Jerry Nadler (acting the role of Max Naumann?) and Elizabeth Warren. That’s interesting because all support citizen disarmament, which they represent as “commonsense gun safety laws,” and they’re all throwing their weight behind a candidate who has declared “We need to ban all guns.”
We need to ban all guns.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) May 24, 2022
You can’t support him and still credibly maintain that you “believe in the Second Amendment BUT…”
Perhaps that’s why, at this writing, none of the major “gun safety” groups, Not Everytown, Giffords, nor Brady (which hasn’t responded to my challenge), have endorsed Mamdani for mayor—they know if they do their mask will be premanently removed, they won’t be able to take back that they support total citizen disarmament as their end game, and all this blather about “commonsense” is merely a smokescreen to distract the gullible while they’re swindling them out of their rights. (The one exception is David Hogg, but no one ever expected him to have the emotional maturity to play the long game. Just don’t ever let him get away with fraudulently calling for incremental infringements again since this endorsement shows what he ultimately supports.)
Second Amendment defenders aren’t positioned to do anything about it more than pointing out the evil unfolding political absurdity, so let New York City voters have the “Leaders [They] Deserve.” It’s not like newly “independent” incumbent Eric Adams represents anything but a slower road to hell for gun owners, and with “Republicans” like perennial self-promoter and “stricter gun laws” demander Curtis Sliwa, who needs Democrats? Just don’t expect those of us the leftists hate to give a damn when their leaders create and enable conditions and catastrophes that give it them what they’re stupidly asking for.
And don’t let the “gun safety” groups forget the roles they did – and deliberately did not – play, and why.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
As a reformed Californian, I must argue against “let them get what they voted for” approach. Just as Californians infecting most western states, leading to vain cries to “not californicate xxxx (Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Texas, New Mexico – insert whichever state). As New York deteriorates we will be infused with refugees who bring NYC attitudes and politics with them. W the hen city fails badly enough, the feds will bail them out (financially) at expense of the rest of us.
For some reason, Americans in general and Jewish Americans in particular seem to willingly embrace socialism. They don’t understand history or willingly forget that every socialist government that has come to power has devolved into one that exterminates its citizens. The N@zi party of the 1930s and ’40s was the national socialist party of Germany. Six million Jews and others were murdered in their extermination camps. Pol Pot’s killing fields movement was a socialist party and killed thousands of academics and religious leaders. Mao’s socialist party exterminated millions of Christians, Muslims, and other religious members. Russia’s communist party (socialist) murdered… Read more »
This clown stands as more proof positive of my theory put forth 45 years ago that the Progressive New Left, the Frankfurt School Marxists had chose one American political party for a hostile take over and they have been successful. The Once-Democratic Party is now a full on Marxist party and is a welcoming place for communists and anti-constitutionalists of all brands. The party still tolerates useful idiots like Joseph Robinette Biden just as communists have always tolerated and made use of greedy, self-centered political whores who think they can negotiate their way off of the gallows. With full on,… Read more »
If Mamdani is ever elected, NYC is certainly damned.
Just like that stupid Harris, if he’s from Uganda and his parents from India then how does the US get stuck with these leftist slobs?
Nice job David, tell it like it is. We have already had one muslim and he was the leader of our country and look what that got us. We have a couple more in congress and look what they say and where their hearts are at and what that gets us. Good point. I say no more muslims in politics for this country should be the norm. Why should we give someone that hates us the power to rule over us especially when other countries recognize who and what they really are and will not allow them in their country.… Read more »
As a huge supporter of Israel and the Jewish people, I’ve gotta say that Jewish Americans who support the socialist party that democrats have become are some of the most “history ignorant” people in the world!
Here is living proof Joe McCarthy was absolutely right in the 40’s and 50’s. Mamdani is the product of a Marxist Father who was a University Professor. His indoctrination began from the cradle. He is a true believer. How many students under the tutelage of the elder Mamdani have been indoctrinated into this evil criminal so-called political philosophy. You can see his fellow travelers in politics, various levels of government, the media and academia. It is most definitely time for new Committees on Un-American Activities in both Houses.
I believe that the Governor of NY has the power to remove NY mayors for bad behavior. So if the Moslem Marxist does get elected, the governor can remove him for almost any fabricated misbehavior. And he will go because the governor has trigger pullers to enforce her orders. Then cut off his paycheck and freeze his bank accounts.
First, if “the only ones” want to disarm me, I will not comply. It’s as simple as that. Second, Trump and the GOP have got to end mass legal immigration. These “legal” immigrants by and large don’t have any interest in being an American. They just want to bring their old culture here and force it upon us. Mass legal immigration is as bad as the tidal wave coming across the Mexican border. Third, Dave Rubin’s just a ’90s bleeding heart. He and his “partner” have children they got from a “surrogate”… That’s a polite way of saying they bought… Read more »