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GUN CONTROL ELITE POLITICIANS REBRAND \u2018BITTER CLINGERS\u2019 FAUX PAS AS \u2018POOR SOULS\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s gun control politicians are making it clear. It\u2019s not just guns they despise. There are two other primary obstacles to civil disarmament that they loathe.<\/p>\n

One is the Second Amendment itself. The other, well, it\u2019s you \u2013 the gun owner.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t that long ago when President Barack Obama lambasted gun owners who refused to roll over to his gun control agenda. Stumping for his first election to The White House, he told fundraisers at a San Francisco event of smalltown Pennsylvania voters that were left behind, especially by the political elites.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren\u2019t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,\u201d President Obama\u00a0said in 2008<\/strong><\/a>. Interestingly, it was former U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), later Secretary of State, who rebuked him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small-town America,\u201d\u00a0she said<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cHis remarks are elitist and out of touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, that was before she labeled half of America \u201ca basket of deplorables\u201d in 2016 when she was making her second run for the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump\u2019s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?\u201d former\u00a0Secretary Clinton said<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cThe racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic \u2013 you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were also a whole lot of gun owners who couldn\u2019t buy into her gun control agenda \u2013 which included banning the Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR), the most popular-selling centerfire rifle in America.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Poor Souls\u2019<\/h4>\n

Fast forward to 2024 and senior Democratic Members of Congress are repeating the same epithets. These were also same politicians who were the vanguard of President Obama\u2019s, Secretary Clinton\u2019s and President Joe Biden\u2019s gun control agendas. Turns out, insulting and dismissing gun owners as \u201clesser\u201d Americans is a popular attitude among Blue State elites.<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was\u00a0rebuked<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as an \u201celite\u201d at an Oxford Union debate on April 25 when she said that certain Americans are \u201cpoor souls who are looking for some answers.\u201d Their biggest sin, according to the Speaker Emeritus, is not bowing to the orthodoxy of the gun control elite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese poor souls\u2026 are looking for some answers,\u201d Rep. Pelosi said<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve given them to them, but they\u2019re blocked by some of their views on guns\u2026 they have the three Gs: Guns, Gays, and God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Pelosi didn\u2019t think that was enough. She said, \u201ccultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did you catch that? Gun owners who reject a politically-driven gun control agenda aren\u2019t thinking in their own self-interests. After all, every other gun control idea \u2013 especially the most recent overreaching of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to run roughshod on the separation of powers to write criminal law in the place of Congress \u2013 isn\u2019t a bad idea in her mind. She believes President Biden\u2019s big government abuse of the rulemaking process is good for voters. They\u2019re just not bright enough to see it for themselves.<\/p>\n

What makes it more insulting, Rep. Pelosi was making that argument at the Oxford Union, a debating society that\u2019s held at Britian\u2019s Oxford University. She trashed American voters on an overseas stage that pitches itself to hosting internationally prominent individuals across politics, academia and popular culture. That\u00a0stage has hosted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0President Ronald Reagon, Mother Theresa and Albert Einstein. It has also hosted former Secretary of State and Climate Envoy John Kerry, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Stacey Abrams and deposed and murdered former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

Forgot \u201cthe People\u201d<\/h4>\n

That\u2019s rare air for a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She\u2019s not alone in her ideas. Rep. Jerry Nadler (R-N.Y.) last week thought he was a tad smarter than the Founding Fathers, including James Madison, who wrote the Second Amendment, and the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark\u00a0Heller\u00a0<\/em>decision, that upheld the Second Amendment as a right belonging to the people, not the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Second Amendment reads \u2013 quote \u2013 \u2018A well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free State, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed,\u201d Rep. Nadler\u00a0said during a hearing<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0last week. \u201cIt is clearly a right, the Founding Fathers, the Framers were opposed to standing armies. They thought that those were instruments of tyranny and that, militia what should be had and the Second Amendment was the guarantee \u2013 was framed as a guarantee that you could have a militia, a well-regulated militia, being safe in the security of a free state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the understanding for 200 years until the radical Supreme Court in the\u00a0Heller<\/em>\u00a0decision upended 200 years of Constitutional interpretation and said that Second Amendment has nothing to do with militias,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a personal and basically unlimited right. The Supreme Court was wrong in that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except, that\u2019s not what the Second Amendment says. He cherry-picked the parts that support his big-government and gun control agendas. Madison \u2013 and the U.S. Supreme Court \u2013 must have collectively rolled their eyes at his continued ignorance to the Bill of Rights. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) wasn\u2019t about to let him off the hook.<\/p>\n

\u201cApologies to Ranking Member Nadler if this isn\u2019t what he stated but I think he might have left out some key words when he read the Second Amendment, and I\u2019ll read it here,\u201d\u00a0Rep. Massie explained<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cA well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. And I\u2019m not sure if I heard him say \u2018the people.\u2019 Which applies to all of the people as we well know, and I yield back.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s insulting to American citizens when Members of Congress intentionally leave \u201cthe people\u201d out of the rights they are endowed with by their Creator. It\u2019s insulting to voters when elite politicians disregard them as \u201cbitter clingers,\u201d \u201cdeplorables\u201d or \u201cpoor souls\u201d who can\u2019t be trusted to think, act and vote for themselves. Worse than that, it is breaking faith with the very \u201cpeople\u201d these elites are elected to represent and protect their rights from an overreaching government.<\/p>\n

Those poor souls \u2013 the more than 100-plus million gun owning homes in America \u2013 and the industry that provides the means for exercising their Second Amendment rights know that no one is buying the gun control they\u2019re selling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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