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Media Hysteria over Efforts to Protect 2nd Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

CNN is\u00a0on the warpath<\/a>\u00a0against politicians and gun rights activist organizations for defending the Second Amendment against efforts to erode the right to keep and bear arms, especially when remarks from Joe Biden are singled out.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy report Friday, CNN focused on West Virginia Republican State Rep. Brandon Steele, who has been pushing a \u201cSecond Amendment Preservation Act\u201d that would \u201cbar state or local police from enforcing new federal gun restrictions the Biden administration might adopt.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the story notes Steele has acknowledged the Biden administration has been so far unsuccessful in pressing what was a\u00a0sweeping gun control agenda\u00a0<\/a>unveiled early in 2020. It is an extremist package that includes a ban on so-called \u201cassault rifles,\u201d waiting periods on handgun purchases, so-called \u201cuniversal background checks\u201d and regulate semi-auto rifles the same as full-auto machine guns.<\/p>\n

The story asserts gun rights groups and politicians have been \u201cgunning up fears that Biden wants to\u2026 \u2018erase the Second Amendment\u2019 and come to people\u2019s homes and take away their guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN recalls a Fox News piece that talked about how Second Amendment groups hit the airwaves with a message that if Biden \u201ccan force a needle in your arm, he can take away your gun.\u201d That message was sponsored by the\u00a0Second Amendment Foundation<\/a>, an organization often overlooked by the establishment media, which is content with demonizing the National Rifle Association. NRA had nothing to do with the message.<\/p>\n

CNN declared in its report, \u201cThe inflammatory rhetoric surrounding these new laws, critics says, is similar and even connected to claims of 2020 election fraud and pushback against Covid-19 vaccine or mask mandates in that they rely on a denial of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is CNN that is denying reality. The SAF messages broadcast earlier this fall included quotes from Biden during a CNN Townhall in which he admitted he has been working to prohibit not only semi-auto rifles, but 9mm pistols.<\/p>\n

At the time the message ran on some 20 different cable networks, Alan Gottlieb, SAF founder and executive vice president, said in a statement, \u201cOver the past eight months since taking office, Joe Biden has evolved from being an annoying gun control advocate to a dangerously ambitious gun prohibitionist. He hasn\u2019t simply climbed on the gun ban train, he\u2019s now the engineer, portraying so-called \u2018gun violence\u2019 as a public health epidemic. He\u2019s perpetuating a myth invented by the gun ban lobby to demonize guns, their owners and the Second Amendment that protects their right to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CNN story quotes Alexandra Filindra, described as \u201ca political science professor at University of Illinois, Chicago, who studies gun politics, disinformation and social media.\u201d She intimates gun rights defenders as being \u201cpart of an ideological system, [and believe] that the other side \u2014 in this case, the Democrats \u2014 are devious and intent on taking political rights away and imposing a socialistic tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment does not protect a \u201cpolitical right.\u201d It protects a fundamental right enumerated in the Constitution, gun rights advocates would respond.<\/p>\n

But after Tuesday\u2019s devastating election results for Democrats, whose only bright light seems to be the victory of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy while a Republican truck driver operating on a shoestring budget just beat the leader of the state Senate Democrats, probably will put gun control on the back burner, if not the shelf. Virginia voters replaced Democrats with Republicans in all three statewide races including the governor\u2019s race. In Minneapolis, voters soundly rejected an effort to defund and dismantle the police department. In Seattle, voters rejected candidates who had advocated to defund the police.<\/p>\n

It just might be a forecast of things to come next November at the mid-term elections. The rush toward the far left by radical anti-gun Democrats just hit a speed bump, and people behind the efforts to protect the Second Amendment were partly, if not largely responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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