Across America – -(AmmoLand.com)- Second Amendment supporters are looking at the Biden-Harris regime’s first days in office with very understandable trepidation. After all, Chuck Schumer is demanding an end to the legislative filibuster, opening the door to court-packing, campaign “reform” that silences our voices, and other assaults on our freedoms.
So, what do we do next?
There’s a lot to do in order to be ready to put pro-Second Amendment leadership in control of the 118th Congress, which will be elected next year. But this is a task that can be accomplished, and in many ways, is more along the path to being accomplished than you might realize.
Let’s take a look at what’s happened to two nominally pro-Second Amendment elected officials who recently wobbled (to put it mildly) on a non-related issue. In Wyoming, Liz Cheney was rebuked unanimously by the Wyoming Republican Party for her vote to impeach President Trump. She is also facing an effort to remove her from her leadership position that is supported by over half the House GOP. While it remains to be seen what the outcome will be, it has to be an encouraging sign.
THE HILL: Over half of House Republican conference sign petition to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from leadership post
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) January 20, 2021
Similarly, in Kentucky, Mitch McConnell is facing a similar backlash over his comments. Local Republican party officials have rebuked him, and the state Republican party plans to debate a censure resolution on January 23.
Involvement in a political party that is supportive of the Second Amendment – whether at the precinct, county, or even state level – can have an outsized impact for the numbers of people involved. With the political party comes infrastructure and institutional power that can be maximized for defending our rights.
It also never hurts to make sure that all of your friends and family are registered to vote – and that their registrations are up to date. With the proliferation of mail-in balloting (which will not go away any time soon), you would not want your vote – or those of your friends and family – to be floating out there. Your county and state board of elections are other places to get involved.
One thing that has to be done is to disabuse all Second Amendment supporters that our effort to restore our rights will be a short, victorious campaign that settles the matter once and for all. Anti-Second Amendment extremists didn’t give up after the Heller ruling, they haven’t given up with the confirmation of judges likely to uphold our rights, and they won’t give up if we thwart the Biden-Harris regime.
Second Amendment supporters need to act, politely engaging with their fellow Americans, preparing to work inside political parties at the precinct, local,, and state levels, and support the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund to prepare for the next election battles.
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.
We are to be polite to democrats who are some of the rudest, most hateful liars on earth? I don`t think so! Give to them twice what they give to us!
“Second Amendment supporters need to act, politely engaging with their fellow Americans, preparing to work inside political parties at the precinct, local,, and state levels, and support the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund to prepare for the next election battles.”
No, Harold, Second Amendment supporters do not need to support the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund. If we do, we will end up with more people like Cornyn:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441884-1/president-trump-calls-comprehensive-gun-bill
@Harold – We are quickly getting past point of politely engaging th3 political opposition. We are instead approaching the point where the 40+ central states politely disengage from the controlling coasts. Call it secession, divorce, disengagement, exitUS or whatever you want. Name doesn’t matter, but being pushed past limits does and action will likely be required.
“There’s a lot to do in order to be ready to put pro-Second Amendment leadership in control of the 118th Congress, which will be elected next year.” AHHH BULLSHIT! You are one of the biggest idiots if you truly believe the tripe you push! “Wait and vote them out of office!” I would like to see that logic applied when we walk up on a man raping a 9 year old girl… “Let’s wait until he rapes 5 more little girls THEN we will REALLY have a case against him and he won’t get out of prison for 7 years!”… Read more »
Harold and others like him who still can’t see that the left have no intention of working with us at all are the reason we are where we are today. The left put on a good show for as long as they needed to in order to incrementally gain ground for their agenda but now no longer even need to pretend. People like Harold wringing their hands and saying stuff like we need to be polite and work within the system are giving the left just exactly what they want. It buys them time to become even more of a… Read more »
“the 118th Congress… will be elected next year”?? Have you lost your mind? NOBODY will be “elected.” All political leaders will be APPOINTED by the DemocRat Party! In November, the Socialists got away (scot-free) with outright fraud [creating mythical ballots, and counting each ballot multiple times, until they had enough votes to ensure a win], and they are giddy as schoolboys in anticipation of future elections. Until they are forcibly stopped, they will indeed get away with it again, and again, and again, and… you get the picture? THERE is the problem – a lack of federal control of any… Read more »
None of this matters anymore. They count the votes, not us. Like Stalin said, I don’t care about who votes, as long as I count the votes.
A DuckDuckGo search for “what does U.S. Constitution say about state elections” will quickly get you this: The term “Elections Clause” refers to Art. 1, § 4, cl. 1, of the United States Constitution that reads as follows: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of chusing Senators.” (Emphasis added.) Only state LEGISLATURES may write / change election law. NOT the courts, NOT state executive branch individuals elected or otherwise,… Read more »
who’s taking your guns? (smh)
AW butthurt T-Rumpkins all upset that their Constitution hating Cult leader lost a FAIR election
Grow the hell up! .