Posted on 03/16/2013 6:08:33 PM PDT by marktwain
Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- When Obamacare passed in March 2010, a grassroots outrage ensued and months later, in Nov. 2010, the Tea Party voted out Democrats in red states and moderate Republicans who’d supported the measure.
Liberals were blindsided, RINOs were dismayed, and because of the passage of Obamacare, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) only held the gavel for two years.
Now, just three short years later, a grassroots movement has been awakened again. But this time it’s not the Tea Party reacting to healthcare. Rather, it is a collection of the approx. 80 million gun owning Americans reacting to the federal government’s insistence on taking guns away.
It is the more than four million NRA members, and the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of members of the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America.
This movement is broad–encompassing Republicans for sure, but also Democrats, Independents, and Progressives like “Warren” who called into the Wilkow Majority on March 5 to talk about how sacrosanct guns are in this country. He talked of how his support for much of the progressive agenda does not include support for more gun control.
This broad spectrum of political opinion, united under the umbrella of the right to keep and bear arms, portends a 2014 election cycle not unlike the one we saw in Nov. 2010.
For this reason, much of the federal-level talk of passing more gun control that was so ubiquitous in Dec. 2012 has quietly given way to silence by Senators like Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mark Warner (D-VA), both of whom know 2014 will not be kind to gun grabbers.
As Breitbart News reported on Jan. 14, gun control is a big loser for Democrats in 2014. But the other side of that coin is that the gun rights movement can be a big winner for conservatism.
In fact, we could see conservatism reborn around the simple truth that the right to keep and bear arms is “necessary to the security of a free state.”
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My policy is to never, ever, ever vote for a dem. I’ll vote for an anti-gun pubbie over a pro-gun dem every time. Never, ever contribute to a potential dem majority.
When we have a dem majority, we will lose more and more of our 2A until it’s gone.
Heck, on one forum called The High Road where they still vote demonRATic but are concerned about gun rights?
Screw 'em. They're not conservatives. One moderator who calls himself JBBooks on the Oklahoma Shooter's Forum, proclaimed that he left the RAT party after Zippy declared war on ARs. I told him we don't want his kind. I mentioned the abomination known as homosexuality and I was censured for "gay bashing." The irony was that he actually had the temerity to call himself Christian.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with conservativism. This is people simply waking up the possibility of losing their guns.
Coalitions are built on a variety of issues. Taxes, balanced budgets, private education, traditional marriage, right to life, personal liberty, limited government, gun ownership, religious freedom, private health care, freedom of travel, these are all issues central to conservative government. This is Reagan’s big tent. Put them all together they spell victory for Constitutional government.
Sorry, but I’m not going to take long walks and hold hands with baby murdering faggots simply because they happen to own a gun.
And in the last two months... (Dec. 2012 and Jan. 2013)
If the lefties keep pushing gun control in another two decades one out of two Americans may be gun owners instead of one out of three.
MOLON LAVE! WE'LL BUY MORE. ;-)
Don’t be a ninny. We don’t need to kiss them, only get their vote.
it would be so much easier for us, if you were disarmed.
now we’ll have to use some of those 1.6 billion bullets against you. you’ll know we’re there when our military mrap drives up and we start shooting into your house.
Good luck with that, seeing as the MRAP tires were flat before you started out, the potential victims were warned two days prior to the operation, and a couple of sniper shots 20 miles away from the supposed op area sent you running back to base.
This war is/will be all about operational intelligence, and the guerrilla forces have multitudes of assets in place.
your lips to God’s ears, man.
You lie down with pigs. You wake up with a stench you won't believe.
Try to show some honor.
PING!
Gun rights are indeed the last line of defense in our republic. If it is to fall so goes everything else. But this also present our patriots with the best strategic path towards victory. In the rallying of our remaining forces to to fight the final battle.
The left feel they are strong enough to take on and defeat this final and most critical of rights. That in turn has given us the potential fuel we need to arm ourselves to prepare for our defense.
The nullification movement is now taking root among the right with passion, and with this tool we can completely dismantle the Leviathan Federal State.
Since Ike threatened to arrest George Wallace, Governors have been a little timid about claiming State Sovereignty.
You are correct, but moral courage counts for a great deal.
It was hard for the South to summon a great deal of moral courage to defend the semi-apartied of “separate but equal”.
The moral outrage of Second Amendment supporters over the infringements in direct contradiction to the Constitution is very high, and has substantial support from a majority of the population.
This is not like trying to outlaw cigarettes, when only a tiny percentage of smokers were willing to make a moral case for their habit.
This is like trying to outlaw automobiles on the grounds that public transportation is safer and cheaper, only if the right to own and use automobiles was directly mentioned in the Constitution.
In this fight, the facts, the culture, and the Constitution are all on our side.
OOOOOOH! Touchy. Ninny is not an insult. Well, yes, I guess it is. But it is very well targeted. Others that come to mind are prissy, fatuous, anal, and a host of others. You obviously have never been involved with sinners and reprobates. Sorry, we will not win elections by condemning everyone who does not wear our brand of lipstick. Get over yourself. I guarantee you are no cleaner than the rest of the unwashed mass.
Obama’s 47% didn’t care about anti-christian legislation, abortion, the loss of jobs, or fudge packers wanting to pretend to be married. They will show up en-mass in 2014 to vote for their Black President because, after all: “he’s black”!
“”The nullification movement is now taking root among the right with passion,”
Since Ike threatened to arrest George Wallace, Governors have been a little timid about claiming State Sovereignty.”
George Wallace abundantly and almost inconsolably gave up at the last moment. His resistance was not true to the heart and over an issue with no noble backbone.
The difference today is that we can’t afford to surrender our gun rights and there is no Constitutional provision(such as the poorly written 14th amendment) to even suggest that we should have to.
We can and must make a stand on this issue. And when Washington sends its redcoats in to betray their oath and levy war upon the Constitution they swore to defend. We shall fight them with all the celverness and evasiveness at our disposal.
Knowing that Washington is a huge levigiant as incomplete and unwieldy as any. They shall not find much in the way of hidden status nor address much in the way of little problems.
Just refusal to submit can come not just from our state houses but from our people as well. Great patriots all across this land who say no to the final usurpation of their rights.
That my friend is our army of liberty!
I guess it's true. You really are too stupid for words. And, fact is, we haven't won an election since Reagan. Merely putting big government globalist liberal clowns into office because they happen to have an 'R' behind their names is no better than putting a rat into office.
Don't bother responding. I'm through reading losers like you.
Poor baby.
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