{"id":70894,"date":"2021-08-16T01:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70894"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:55:05","slug":"70894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70894","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Fudd for Chipman\u2019 Democrat Ploy to Manipulate Low-Information Gun Owners<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGuest view: David Chipman can unite us on Second Amendment issues,\u201d an August 5 testimonial appearing in, among other outlets,\u00a0the\u00a0Montana Standard<\/em><\/a>, declares. The author is Dave Stalling, a self-described \u201cpast president of the Montana Wildlife Federation, \u2026 gun owner, former Force Recon Marine and avid hunter who lives in Missoula.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only surprise is that such a piece hasn\u2019t appeared earlier. Gun owners have long been subjected to sudden appearances of Democrat citizen disarmament enablers trying to pass themselves off as fellow \u201ctribe\u201d members when there is a political goal to be attained. In the last presidential election, two groups tried to make their mark, \u201cSportsmen and Sportswomen for Biden \u2014 a coalition of more than 50 prominent hunters and anglers from across the country, who have come together to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States,\u201d and the Giffords\u2019-bankrolled Gun Owners for Safety.<\/p>\n

Yeah, they\u2019re\u00a0Fudds for Biden<\/a>. If you\u2019re inclined to take offense at that word, hold on a second: It\u2019s not a pejorative for all hunters and sport shooters \u2013 just the ones who throw their fellow gun owners under the bus and support citizen disarmament edicts that don\u2019t impact their hobbies. But a Fudd is what Stalling proves himself to be, particularly when he accuses Donald Trump Jr. of lying when he says Montana Sen. Jon Tester is not \u201cstaunchly pro-Second Amendment.\u201d He\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Tester\u2019s a prime example of a self-serving opportunist who recognized that he had to vote \u201cpro-gun\u201d in order to be elected in that state, and was allowed to get away with it by Democrat Party leadership because it served their purposes to have him advance the rest of the agenda.\u00a0Revealingly, Tester showed his true nature when\u00a0he voted to keep Post Offices \u201cgun-free zones.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The last straw for NRA was Tester\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation votes (for Kagan and Sotomayor, against Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) when they\u00a0downgraded his one-time \u201cA\u201d to a \u201cD.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a gun owner, former ATF special agent, and internationally recognized gun safety expert, David Chipman is hardly \u2018anti-Second Amendment,\u2019\u201d Stalling continues. \u201cAs a Montana citizen, gun owner, former Force Recon Marine, and hunter, I fully support Chipman\u2019s nomination, and urge my fellow Montanans to do the same.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHardly\u201d? And \u201crecognized\u201d by who? As for being a gun owner, so is Dianne Feinstein \u2013 who was reported to have a concealed carry permit that you or I couldn\u2019t get to save our lives \u2013literally. What does that prove? With all the evidence of his personal penchant for infringements that\u2019s been amassed to the contrary (just enter the search term \u201cChipman\u201d in the AmmoLand search bar), you wonder what more the guy has to do.<\/p>\n

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As for Stalling being a Montana citizen, that doesn\u2019t qualify the correctness of his opinions. Mentioning he is a \u201cformer Force Recon Marine\u201d to make himself appear authoritative on the Second Amendment is a logical fallacy, equivalent to pediatricians presuming their medical degrees confer all the credentialing they need in order to prescribe that gun owners lock up their safety. \u00a0And as every real personal arms advocate knows, it ain\u2019t about duck hunting.<\/p>\n

The curious thing about his being past president of the Montana Wildlife Federation: They\u2019re putting a lot of energy into confirming \u00a0Tracy Stone-Manning<\/a>\u00a0to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Campaigning for someone who was closely\u00a0involved with eco-terrorist tree spikers<\/a>\u00a0might make the whole MSF nominee supporting process suspect.<\/p>\n

That certainly raises a different flag than the one Stalling\u2019s waving. Then again, his assertions bring nothing to mind so much as\u00a0Sir Wilfrid\u2019s cross-examination of Frau Helm<\/a>\u00a0in the classic movie\u00a0Witness for the Prosecution<\/em>\u00a0(if you haven\u2019t seen it, go ahead and take two minutes and watch it).<\/p>\n

That he fools no one who understands the issue is not the point. Stalling\u2019s not trying to persuade or change the minds of anyone who knows what they\u2019re talking about on the Second Amendment. What he\u2019s doing is following a strategy similar to the efforts of a new organization passing itself off as a \u201creasonable\u201d alternative to more confrontational gun-grabbers,\u00a097percent.org<\/a>. And they\u2019re counting on \u201c40% of the 2020 spike in new gun owners were women, and 90% of gun owners do not view guns as part of their identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, take the new gun owners who don\u2019t understand the issue and apathetic, uninvolved gun owners who haven\u2019t been paying attention, and make sure they stay low-information and don\u2019t get spooked by the truth. It\u2019s a similar tactic to characterizing disarmament edicts as \u201ccommonsense gun safety.\u201d Who could be against that?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to gun owners who believe in the Second Amendment to use our influence to counter the deception. There\u2019s a lot of new gun owners out there and it would be both a shame and a waste to not do what we can to show them where they\u2019re being misdirected, and the tricks the snake oil salesmen employ to get them to swallow political poison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Fudd for Chipman\u2019 Democrat Ploy to Manipulate Low-Information Gun Owners \u201cGuest view: David Chipman can unite us on Second Amendment issues,\u201d an August 5 testimonial appearing in, among other outlets,\u00a0the\u00a0Montana Standard, declares. The author is Dave Stalling, a self-described \u201cpast president of the Montana Wildlife Federation, \u2026 gun owner, former Force Recon Marine and avid … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894","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=70894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70895,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894\/revisions\/70895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}