Doesn’t mean they won’t try for more gun control, they’re just keeping their mouths shut about it as their internal polling is showing it isn’t popular.<\/p>\n
Hawkins: Leftists Silent as Americans Choose Guns over Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n As millions of Americans have poured into gun stores and set background check records for seven straight months, the normally vocal gun grabbers on the left have gone silent.<\/p>\n Consider the example of Joe Biden, a man who spent months on the campaign trail promising universal background checks, an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, a \u201chigh capacity\u201d magazine ban, and even voiced support for government-mandate buybacks of certain firearms, yet did not mention gun control one time during his Democrat National Convention acceptance speech.<\/p>\n CNN published a transcript of the speech, and the absence of any gun control mention, much less a gun control push, is demonstrable.<\/p>\n Kamala Harris did not mention gun control during her August 19, 2020, DNC acceptance speech either. NBC News posted a transcript of Harris\u2019s speech and the closest she got to pushing gun control was simply mentioning Biden\u2019s work to secure the 1994 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban.<\/p>\n But Harris did not call for a ban now, nor did she use her speech to press for universal background checks, a change in law to remove frivolous lawsuit protections for gun makers, or a government-mandated buyback of certain firearms, although these are all gun controls she pushed again and again during her months on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n Looking beyond the words of Biden and Harris, have you noticed that Hollywood elites have grown a little quieter about gun control as well?<\/p>\n Perhaps it is the videos of riots in Democrat-run cities attacking innocents or the seemingly endless violence in Democrat-run Chicago and New York City or relentless war on cops or a combination of all three and more, but the gun control push is not what it was, on that we can all agree.<\/p>\n Also, one cannot underestimate the impact seven consecutive months of recording-breaking background checks, January 2020 through July 2020, have had as well. Nor can one pretend that nearly five million first-time gun buyers during those seven months fail to indicate a rebirth of the importance of self-defense in the American psyche.<\/p>\n Running on gun control did not bode well for the Democrat presidential ticket in 2016 and the new-found silence of Biden and Harris may indicate they know it is not a winning topic in 2020 either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doesn’t mean they won’t try for more gun control, they’re just keeping their mouths shut about it as their internal polling is showing it isn’t popular. Hawkins: Leftists Silent as Americans Choose Guns over Gun Control As millions of Americans have poured into gun stores and set background check records for seven straight months, the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59059,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058\/revisions\/59059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}