{"id":80312,"date":"2022-04-22T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80312"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:16:57","slug":"80312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“If you caucus with gun grabbers, you<\/strong> are<\/strong> a gun grabber.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Can \u201cPro-Gun\u201d Democrats Be Trusted?<\/a><\/p>\n

(No. And you can barely<\/em> trust “Pro-Gun” Republicans)<\/p>\n

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From time to time, the topic comes up in which we are tasked with deciding if a Democrat deserves our vote based primarily on their support of the 2nd Amendment. I was in a discussion about this topic and realized that there\u2019s a major problem with this. Often, we hear Democrats announce that they are \u201cgun-owners\u201d and\/or \u201chunters\u201d prior to some sort of anti-gun statement.<\/p>\n

I have my doubts as to whether their \u201cgun ownership\u201d amounts to much more than a dusty old war rifle that grandpa left in the attic and their implication to be \u201cone of us\u201d is often a tactic used to gain some sort of \u201cauthority\u201d in a gun-control debate, but let\u2019s look at this from a practical perspective. If I were to support a Democrat who claims to be \u201cpro-gun,\u201d (whether that be a Senator, Representative or even the President,) what other policies am I inadvertently supporting, and how high on the hierarchical scale of values are\u00a0gun rights<\/a>\u00a0for this person?<\/p>\n

Show me a Democrat who claims they don\u2019t support universal background checks,\u00a0red flag laws<\/a>, magazine capacity restrictions, waiting periods, 21-year-old age requirements, semi-automatic rifle bans, bump-stock bans, suppressor bans, forced reset trigger bans & suing manufacturers out of business, and I will show you a liar.<\/p>\n

What makes them a Democrat? Isn\u2019t the very reason they vote on the left, to support the policies of those on the left? How many more left-wing policies do you want your children and grandchildren to be burdened with? Is it likely that they will actually go against their party on gun rights when you need them to? Have you ever seen that happen, and in the rare case it might, where else are they compromising your values? Some strong supporters of the 2nd Amendment are willing to support a Democrat who claims to support gun rights. Is this because they believe we are converting them? Good luck with that. The real question is, what else are we getting in that dysfunctional social package?<\/p>\n

In an announcement on April, 11<\/a>, 2022, on \u201cghost guns,\u201d Joe Biden revealed this exact hypocrisy when he called firearms dealers \u201cmerchants of death,\u201d yelled and screamed about \u201cweapons of war\u201d and then went on to say,\u00a0\u201cand by the way. It\u2019s gonna sound bizarre. I support the 2nd Amendment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we support a so-called \u201cpro 2nd Amendment Democrat,\u201d are we also supporting their position on open borders, abortion, CRT, bisexual bathrooms, \u201csex-ed\u201d for Kindergarteners, the termination of oil drilling in America, the green new deal, ESG, the early release of prisoners, bail reform, never-ending medical mandates, the defunding of our police departments, welfare dependency and the overall forfeiture of our basic ability to make our own decisions? Because if so, I\u2019m out.<\/p>\n

So why are any of us being asked to put at risk, and most likely compromise, traditional American values and Conservative beliefs, just to get a \u201c2A-friendly\u201d vote in Congress by some politician who claims to support our gun rights? (Which by the way, probably wouldn\u2019t happen when it comes down to actual voting behavior due to massive Congressional pressure from their peers.) Could it be Democrats recognize how strong the 2nd Amendment is and how protective of it, most Americans are? Could presenting a so-called \u201cpro-gun Democrat,\u201d be a way of coercing Republicans into unwittingly compromising at the voting booth with the hopes of saving our 2nd Amendment?<\/p>\n

Sorry. The 2nd Amendment is not up for debate or compromise.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

When I hear people suggesting that I should support a Democrat because they are \u201cpro-gun,\u201d I smell a rat. I have a problem trusting most Republicans with the 2nd Amendment. Now you\u2019re asking me to vote for a\u00a0Democrat<\/a>? I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If you caucus with gun grabbers, you are a gun grabber.” Can \u201cPro-Gun\u201d Democrats Be Trusted? (No. And you can barely trust “Pro-Gun” Republicans) From time to time, the topic comes up in which we are tasked with deciding if a Democrat deserves our vote based primarily on their support of the 2nd Amendment. I … 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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80312","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\/80312","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=80312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80314,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80312\/revisions\/80314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}