Guns and Crime

Will gun control go the way of tariffs in a 1984-style GOP shift?

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6 days ago

August 13, 2019

Will gun control go the way of tariffs in a 1984-style GOP shift

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Ask a modern day Trump-supporting Republican if they support tariffs, particularly against China. The vast majority have sided with the President on this one. Some, such as me, have done so with the understanding that we’re in a trade war and if we’re going to go this route, we need to go all the way. No half-measures. But a good number of Republicans are either unaware of the GOP’s history with tariffs or have done mental gymnastics to claim it’s actually more fiscally conservative than free trade.

It isn’t. Fiscal conservatives in America have favored free trade over tariffs and other measures for decades. This is why Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued the only official praise he’s ever given President Trump following the release of the first round of tariffs on China. It was his plan, along with Senator Bernie Sanders’s, that was deemed too radical by President Obama but found a home with President Trump.

I’m not trying to stir up an argument over trade. Like I said, I’m all in favor of supporting the trade war with China because winning that war is the fastest way for America to get back to the free trade market capitalism days of our more conservative past. Free trade combined with tax cuts will send our economy to the stratosphere. But for now I’ll adopt and support the President’s plan on trade. I won’t accept Republicans trying to tell me it’s conservative or that the GOP has always supported tariffs. Over 70% opposed tariffs before candidate-Trump hit the scene.

But Republicans aren’t the only ones with a case of misrepresenting their recent history. Nearly 70% of Democrats supported tariffs in 2015. Now that President Trump is using them, an overwhelming majority of Democrats oppose them. Go figure.

There’s another attempted shift in Republican orthodoxy. Now that many Republican lawmakers are embracing gun control measures like universal background checks, red flag gun laws, and “assault weapons” bans, we’re seeing an effort being made to say the GOP has always supported “common sense” gun laws. It’s coming from the lawmakers themselves. It’s coming from a handful of conservative pundits. It’s even coming from the conservative base on social media; the most die-hard Trump supporters are preaching gun control as if it has always been their stance. It has not.

I’ve always said I’ll praise the President when he does right and oppose him when he does wrong. Since becoming President, I’ve found I support him much more often than I oppose him. And in the case of tariffs, I complained and complained until it became clear it was going to happen, at which point I adopted the stance of going all-out for the sake of a free trade future. But I won’t be doing the same with gun control. It’s wrong on every level, from the Constitution to effectiveness to 2020 election strategy, yet the push is on and it seems like many conservatives are jumping on board.

Here’s the thing. We don’t have to abandon our defense of the 2nd Amendment for the sake of showing support for the President. The opposite is true. This is an opportunity to call on Republican lawmakers and the President himself to come to their collective senses and stop this terrible push against guns. As I noted before, there are solutions to the mass-shooting-problem that do not require gun control. Let’s look at those before force-feeding the placebo of universal background checks or the poison of red flag gun laws and assault weapons bans.

Lest we forget, the President and most Republican lawmakers are flexible. We saw the President bend back in the right direction when he was feeling out his “softening” on illegal immigration in August, 2016. It was before the election and he was starting to talk about pathways to citizenship, pulling back on deportations, and other anti-sovereignty measures as a result of some campaign adviser telling him it was a good idea. It wasn’t a good idea. Conservatives told him as much. After about a week, he backed down on the softening and reengaged as a border security hawk.

We can change their minds before they do damage to the 2nd Amendment. If we don’t, we’re going to see gun control being adopted by more and more Republican lawmakers until “common sense” overrules our rights as Americans.

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Why isn’t gun control considered to be sexist as well as racist?

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13 hours ago

August 18, 2019

DParker

Why isnt gun control considered to be sexist as well as racist

Liberty [Gun] Control is rooted in racism. It also adversely affects women. Why isn’t it considered to be racist and sexist?

A recent video from One America News Network entitled: ‘Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights’ made this very important point on the topic of Liberty Control. The basic facts of science have one sex at a disadvantage to the other, with guns being the great equalizer.

Why doesn’t the Left have to answer for the sexism and racism of Liberty control?

These days, the national socialist Left wields pejoratives Racism and Sexism like an assault weapon. So why aren’t these labels applied to them for their incessant attacks against freedom? Firearms are the great equalizers, with the Left’s gun confiscation agenda having a disproportionate effect on women and minorities. Somehow the Left escapes these facts being applied to them, while they exploit those words with abandon.

We’ve already detailed the racism aspect of this issue here, and case for Liberty control being sexist made in this video.

Why the gun is civilization..

We will wrap this up with a column written in 2007 by Marko Kloos on a WordPress blogging site the Munchkin wrangler. It encapsulates the issue of firearms down to one proposition on how human being deal with each other.

MARCH 23, 2007 by MARKO KLOOS
Why the gun is civilization.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

[Emphasis added]

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Guns and Crime

If you support the President, help him see gun control won’t work

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17 hours ago

August 18, 2019

Lorie Wimble

If you support the President help him see gun control wont work

Some say the President and GOP will lose the 2020 election if they don’t do something to slow down gun violence. Others say the President and GOP will lose if the embrace gun control. To some extent, both are right, but for very different reasons.

If they do nothing that reduces gun violence, they’ll lose. But here’s the thing. Universal background checks, red flag gun laws, and “assault weapons” bans will not reduce gun violence. We can see this demonstrated with absolute clarity by examining where gun violence happens the most. Guess what… and this may shock you if you haven’t been paying attention… but gun violence is most prevalent where gun control is most obtuse. If gun control worked, Chicago would be at the bottom of the list for gun crimes because their gun control laws are extreme.

If red flag gun laws worked, Baltimore would have seen a dramatic reduction in gun violence following one of the loosest versions of the law passing in 2018. Instead, they’ve seen an INCREASE in firearm homicides despite 788 Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) applied for since the laws passage.

Baltimore’s homicides by firearm RISE 13% since red flag gun law went into effect

Baltimore is pacing for a 13% increase in gun-related homicides since the red flag gun law went into effect.

Following the mass shootings two weeks ago in El Paso and Dayton, emotions have been high. Even many 2nd-Amendment-defending Republican lawmakers are starting to bend in favor of embracing red flag gun laws. They’re an ideal choice for trying to look like they’re fixing the mass shooting problem, but despite 17 states enacting the law since 2012, there have been zero examples of a potential mass shooter who was stopped.

Here’s how the 2020 narrative regarding gun control will play out. If the GOP and the President back any of these gun control measures and they fail to make a dent in gun violence, Democrats will say they’re doing too little and actually use these efforts to condemn the President. And as people see the GOP’s gun control didn’t work, they’ll start to believe maybe the Democrats have the right answers. If, on the other hand, we stay focused on mental illness, getting more guns in the hands of good guys, and healing the fractured spirit of the nation, we can see a reduction in gun violence. There are ways to address gun violence without gun control.

Now, let’s say the President listens to his progressive advisers and enacts gun control measures. There’s little chance his supporters will vote Democrat; we don’t cut off our noses to spite our faces. But the passion, fundraising, and intangible support will diminish. Right now, the President needs his base to remain as passionate as possible if we’re going to overcome the tremendous bias in mainstream media. The way to win in 2020 is to galvanize the conservative base to draw in moderates and Independents behind a movement of pro-America and pro-American policies.

Gun control is neither pro-America nor pro-American. It’s a lukewarm appeasement to the left that won’t vote for him no matter what he does with guns. His progressive advisers who are pushing him towards gun control are flat-out wrong.

Supporting the President does not mean echoing bad advice by progressive members of his team. He will listen to voters and stop this gun control madness before it begins if we let him know we support the 2nd Amendment.

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Culture and Religion

Dan Bongino calls out Antifa for what they really are

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17 hours ago

August 18, 2019

CQ Livingston

Dan Bongino calls out Antifa for what they really are

There’s a strange series of contradictions within the Antifa movement. They claim to be anti-fascist, yet their actions can only be categorized as fascist suppression techniques. They claim to be against racism and misogyny, yet they intimidate any minority or woman who doesn’t agree with them. They pretend to be brave, yet they hide behind masks.

Conservative pundit Dan Bongino knows a thing or two about fighting fascism, stopping bigotry, and being brave. As an outspoken commentator and former Secret Service agent, Bongino has done more to defend this country and promote the proper ideologies we need in order to prevent fascism from ever rearing its ugly head here. He’s also no fan of Antifa.

Domestic terror group ANTIFA (which is short for anti-First Amendment) targets women and minorities for their ultra violent attacks. They are hardcore racists and misogynists, nothing more.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 18, 2019

As he notes, the real agenda of Antifa isn’t anti-fascism. Their name really implies they’re anti-FA – First Amendment. Even as they fight “hate speech,” they do so in ways that are designed to suppress our freedoms to speak. They’re quickly becoming a parody of the old progressive movements, albeit more dangerous today.

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