Category: Politics

Gun Influencers Denying Immigration Impact on Right to Arms Ignore Truths They Can’t Refute

All the critics need to do to prove this wrong is to come up with numbers that credibly refute those given. [More]

You can’t rebut contentions by avoiding them. It’s past time this argument was more widely noticed in the “pro-gun community.”

A Trigger Rock in Richmond?

Virginia Dems’ Gun Control Blitzkrieg Should be a Warning to Gun Owners Nationwide [More]

It should have been a warning before the election.

Who thinks the necessary coordination and participation we didn’t see at the state level will manifest itself nationwide to thwart gerrymandering?

Andy M. points out that some of my critics will not be happy with Mark W. Smith saying this (7:40 in):

[We] really need for a whole bunch of reasons including to continue to push that most important issue which is even which is the most important issue when it comes to our second amendment right to keeps and that is the immigration issue kicking out the people shouldn’t be here. kicking out the people that may be illegally voting, kicking out the people that have no interest in the right to
keep and bear arms.

I’m working on a rebuttal to their deliberate, and often hostile avoidance of the facts. I’m delighted to see a much more influential voice than mine picking up this banner, and will make sure to cite this in my sequel to this.

[Via Jess]

Casey at the Bat

He answered the Ohio Gun Owners survey:

A colleague noted whose they did not:

OGO removed the comment.

I did try to give Putsch the benefit of the doubt:

Unfortunately, he didn’t answer any of our questions. Realizing that political campaigns can be all consuming, Firearms News will issue an update if he does.

That said, I expect I’ll vote for Putsch in the primary, although based on my track record at picking political winners, candidates probably shouldn’t want me to.

Dealbreaker?

John Cornyn compared January 6 to 9/11, and called attendees “white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists.” [More]

Hey, John, there’s still time to do a 180 to fawn and curry favor with Trump to whore for his endorsement like you did on your filibuster reversal.

A question comes to mind.

[Via bondmen]

Outlier

Steve Hilton, a legal immigrant and political newcomer running as a Republican for governor of California, said the “absolute failure on every front” by current Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats means the GOP has a real shot at pulling off an upset in the Golden State. [More]

And he appears to understand 2A…

So are my critics right, and will I have to eat my words?

This “anecdote and isolated example” aside, it’s on them to show how legal immigrants who become naturalized citizens will vote our way gun issues, because the polls I’ve found say they overwhelmingly vote against us.

Plus, the California vote is hardly a lock and urban populations will decide it.

Then again, sometimes I wonder why I bother.

An Incomplete Data Set

Cato Director: Immigrants Reduce Crime Rates, So You’re Less Likely to Be a Crime Victim [More]

What will happen to that crime rate when the pathway to citizenship Democrats and cheap labor Republicans/Libertarians succeed in changing the electorate to one that supports citizen disarmament?

I wonder if Bier and Cato will take the challenge that so far everyone else has run away from.

We could always ask…

[Via Michael G]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Watch–Democrat Tells Angel Families: Sorry for Your Loss, But Americans Are More Violent than Illegal Aliens [More]

Leftist Rep. Steve Cohen channels his inner Cato.

As Gomer would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!“

[Via bondmen]

It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t In It

Cornyn Pushed Potentially “Sharia-Compliant” Visa Program His Daughter’s Lobbying Firm Made A Fortune From [More]

And if we’re to believe some of our more popular “gun rights authorities,” me suggesting that importing such people will have an impact on government recognition of our rights, and that ought ot be factored into the Cornyn/Paxton equation, would be”both bigoted and wildly unpopular. Some real loser shit.”

[Via bondmen]

Fueling the Fire

From Biden’s ‘war’ on gas prices to ‘small price to pay,’ GOP shifts tone as Iran conflict hits pumps – Gas prices jumped 50 cents per gallon since Operation Epic Fury began, reaching $3.54 average nationwide [More]

So, with a “war” under Trump it’s basically .02/gal. more than in Biden’s heyday.

Nobody remembers the sacrifices that had to be made by “the greatest generation”– and the sacrifices they required of enemy civilian populations.

Ol’ Clausewitz was right, and it’s pretty obvious the freak-out-over-no-toilet-paper generation will fold like a cheap suit and vote in communists if subjected to what would previously have been considered inconveniences.

And don’t get me wrong– I’m still not convinced that the course we’re on is the best one, I’m merely making an observation about the fortitude of an electorate that more often than not asks what their country can do for them.

Oh, look: There is no joy in Mudville.

Related UPDATE

Ruh-roh!

Oil Prices Drop, Establishment Media And Democrats Enraged

The People Have Spoken

From Texas Scorecard, via email:

How that translates into electability is anybody’s guess, but anyone who says Texas will go solidly and reliably “red” may have a point, if you go back to the original understanding of the term.

And that’s just the way Joe Rogan likes it.

[Via Sweet Babboo]

Related UPDATE

Cornyn backs ending filibuster as he courts Trump’s endorsement [More]

Hold true to past principles or roll over to hold onto the job… hmm… tough choice…

[Via Jess]

Tales of the Stupid Party

DataRepublican PERFECTLY Breaks Down Why Republicans Are Slow-Walking the SAVE Act in MUST-Read Thread [More]

Republicans snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…

And, of course, when the blow the midterms, the narrative will be it’s because of the MAGA agenda.

As Bill Clinton mentor Carroll Quigley reminds us:

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy”

That’s the plan and they’re sticking to it.

[Via Michael G]

Get a GRIP

U.S. Representative Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-09) issued the following statement in response to reintroducing H.R. 7678/S. 3916, the Gun-owner Registration Information Protection Act (GRIP Act), legislation to ensure federal taxpayer dollars are not used to create, maintain, or expand state firearm owner registries. [More]

Yeah, uh, about that…

Must be midterms coming up…

Then again, if the Dems take over, look for bills that do the opposite to be introduced, and for Vichycon turncoats to vote for them…

[Via CDT]

Fair Weather Comrades

The rule is, if you side with us, we coddle you. Go against our pet projects—climate change, COVID policy, Obamacare, trans-weirdness of any kind, censorship of dis-, mis-, mal-information, etc.—and we try to destroy you. [More]

They actually take things beyond that– the goal is power, and in order to get it, the tool for outrage du jour is ignorable and expendable if it interferes with the greater agenda.

Once the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is established, who thinks the Bolsheviks won’t start culling Mensheviks?

Who thinks, once power is secured, the pronoun people won’t be the first to go?

[Via bondmen]

About Last Night

I hate to spoil all the rave reviews from “our side,” but he said not one word about the Second Amendment. [More]

Why?

Biden had no problem attacking it.

Republicans are quick to pledge their “staunch 2A supporter” creds when the audience is just us gun owners, but when it comes to the Republic as a whole they avoid it. My guess is most of them don’t really understand it well enough to use their position as a bully pulpit, to champion it and educate their constituents on why it is such an important shared right. That absolutely needs to change, and the “gun lobby” needs to step up its game to teach them how and make clear it’s an expectation.

If gun owners let them take us for granted, they will.

Working in the president’s favor: The Democrats were sour-faced and seething. I doubt many of their voters’ minds were changed though, and that’s especially puzzling because the working class was presented with a lot of reasons why their economic interests have been, are, and will be better served by the Republican agenda.

I will give Trump credit for what may be a powerful and useful meme if the Republicans are smart enough to use it:

If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

Republicans should show their Democrat opponent who did not stand as part of their midterm campaign. It won’t work against treasonous communists like Omar and Tlaib who “represent” demographically-engineered parasite districts, but it could be an effective reminder in closer races.

A minor image criticism: An aide should have quietly taken him aside and straightened his hair before he entered the chamber. The left side looked like somebody took a leaf blower to it. The night was, after all, ultimately about image.

A self-inflicted vulnerability:

I’ve always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I’m not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn’t know why I’d be taking it.

I’d expect someone like Mark Kelly to have a field day with that one, and for the DSM to amplify it. Then again, Kelly did not stand.