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The most revealing poll of all: gun sales
American Thinker ^ | August 15, 2020 | Patricia McCarthy

Posted on 08/16/2020 8:00:38 PM PDT by george76

For decades, the Democrat party has wanted to abrogate the Second Amendment, to ban the sale of guns of any and all calibers, sizes, shapes and potential uses. They have long sought to limit the amount of ammo per gun and

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The left has yet to realize the obvious, that criminals do not obey laws of any kind, least of all gun laws. So deluded are the gun-banning Democrats, they do not believe that Americans have the right to defend themselves against said criminals. These Democrats who want to run our lives all have armed security themselves, but we peons are, in their warped view, are to be forever denied the rights they bestow upon themselves.

Like the imbecilic Beto O’Rourke before her, Kamala Harris advocates gun confiscation; she wants the tyrannical government she and Joe are promoting to go into our homes and seize our legally-obtained weapons of self-defense.

Like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, seizing the firearms of the citizenry is the first step toward despotism. But the left misjudges the spirit of Americans who have escaped being indoctrinated by the anti-American, anti-constitutionalism that the left in academia and the media have been pushing for decades. Most of us take the Constitution and its accompanying Bill of Rights very seriously.

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Will a majority of Americans choose to be disarmed like the Germans under Hitler, the Russians under Stalin and the Chinese under Mao or will they vote to preserve their constitutional right to bear arms? The astronomical surge in gun ownership these past months tells us that no, they will not vote to lose their Second Amendment right. Self-defense is a human right.

“The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.“ --James Monroe

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; banglist; beto; betoorourke; ccw; concealedcarry; confiscation; gun; gunconfiscation; guncontrol; guns; gunsales; harris; kamala; kamalaharris; nra; orourke; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense
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To: george76

Myself, everyone of my family members, and everyone I know will never give up a single gun or a single round of ammunition ever. They will never have enough states to ratify any amendment to our Constitution taking away the Second Amendment. All this talk is frivolous about what some candidate thinks they can do or not do. The unconstitutional limits on guns by several states limiting aspects of weapons is ignored by all criminals and most draconian laws are only obeyed by honest citizens in fear of their government. It is government who should fear the people if they should ever attempt to pass any unconstitutional law intending on striping away all guns of any type. And if a tyrannical government ever foolishly did so by passing a law taking away the right to gun ownership, it would be utterly destroyed in any attempt to enforce it or survive passing it.


21 posted on 08/16/2020 8:42:58 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: george76

While this sounds logical I don’t believe it’s correct. In my opinion most liberals buying guns will still vote liberal.

And none of the opinion pieces I read similar to this are even factoring in 5 million fraudulent votes for Joe Biden. And if something doesn’t change soon 5 million may be an underestimate.


22 posted on 08/16/2020 8:47:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: rxh4n1

They turn criminals loose as soon as they can so they can victimize more people.


23 posted on 08/16/2020 8:48:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: george76
It isn't just gun sales that ought to be giving pause to the more enthusiastic communist (why not call it like it is?) social reformers, it's the nature of those sales. It's very simple and any gun owner who has confronted it lately will recognize the pattern. What's hot? Well, it isn't deer rifles. AR-15's are hot. Very hot. And compact concealable semiautomatic handguns are hot. Very, very hot. Shotguns are hot, but not the ones crafted for wing shooting, the ones that are configured for fighting people. This has been going on for a long time now - what these marketing data show is that the country, specifically the middle class, is preparing for war.

These trends are obvious and undeniable. The trend of legitimate citizen concealed and open carry laws and the participation of armed citizens therein is a state-level response to a widespread social movement in that direction. This is so unacceptable to the so-called progressives that it is rarely acknowledged in the popular media, which is perfectly fine, one need simply look at the data, not at the people attempting to explain it away through accusations of paranoia. What's moving is what's moving, and it doesn't bode well for any citizen disarmament movement however trendy in the urban enclaves.

A lot of things two and a half centuries old are about to be tested, because a tyrannical government is only a single election away, and once in place its proponents are quite open about what they will be ordering with regard to citizen ownership of the tools to resist them. And that's why the gun store shelves are empty. It isn't difficult.

24 posted on 08/16/2020 9:06:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: george76

Note to those who want to deny the “Bill of Rights,” protection of “We the People.”
You may try, but your quest is unlawful and will be met with a violent reaction, the likes, of which, you cannot imagine.
Drop it, it is a losing idea.

What part of “shall not be infringed,” do you not understand?


25 posted on 08/16/2020 9:09:17 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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To: george76

Democrats know all to well the real reason for the Second Amendment and it terrifies them. It’s to give the citizen protection from a possible over reaching and tyrannical government.


26 posted on 08/16/2020 9:13:02 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The left doesn’t realize that if it is successful in it’s overall societal aims, we gun owners will have nothing left to lose. That’s 63 million deplorables, 37 million hunters and 22 million CCW holders with well over 400 million firearms. If 10% of those people say Hell No, Civil War 2.0 will be bloodier than the first.


27 posted on 08/16/2020 9:17:01 PM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: hardspunned

And far less civil.


28 posted on 08/16/2020 9:32:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BatGuano

What part of “shall not be infringed,” do you not understand?
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Well, they didn’t define it in the Constitution so we have to pretend we don’t know what they meant......./s


29 posted on 08/16/2020 9:34:17 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Do you think that the definition could be stretched to, “fringe refers to the fancy, cloth, dressing on the “Surry” from the musical, “Oklahoma?” Back to the horse and buggies.
Are we, ever in for trouble??


30 posted on 08/16/2020 9:43:43 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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To: BatGuano

No less strange than seeing Chinese tourist babies and Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids born in Yemen as naturally Americans.


31 posted on 08/16/2020 9:48:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would split Texas into a couple of states. Now. Don’t wait.


Texas entered the Union via treaty, since it was a sovereign nation. One part of the treaty allowed Texas to divide into as many as five states without the permission of Congress (which is required for other states). Some argue that this was abrogated when Texas applied for readmission after the Civil War.

The logic of all this gets a bit confusing. Lincoln argued the states’ secessions weren’t legally valid. But Lincoln was assassinated and Reconstruction was handled by Congress which declared that ex-Confederate states had to reapply for admission to the Union.


32 posted on 08/16/2020 10:06:19 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: george76

l8r


33 posted on 08/16/2020 10:46:07 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: george76

For the democrats, getting tough on crime
means longer suspended sentences.


34 posted on 08/16/2020 11:11:15 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (No real problem has a solution.)
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To: BrexitBen; MinorityRepublican

And PA, MD...no doubt a few others.


35 posted on 08/17/2020 12:45:32 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: george76

See my tag line.

JoMa


36 posted on 08/17/2020 2:45:23 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: bigbob
"NRA, why aren’t you doing this?"

NRA doesn't care anymore. Spending members money on $5,000 suits and ties. Unfortunately leadership became a fat pig with a broken leg.

37 posted on 08/17/2020 3:34:12 AM PDT by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: eastexsteve

Correct me if I am wrong, but the US is a one of a kind nation where self defense is seemingly built into our genetic makeup.

Case in point is Vermont, one of the strongest supporters of the 2A, yet they have a commie as a senator.

Look at a typical voting map shaded with the blues and reds. Red is the predominant color all over the place with exception to large metro areas. Granted, the large blue metro areas hold the votes, but the red areas hold the guns and will not let them go like the sheep of Germany, Russia or China.


38 posted on 08/17/2020 4:10:04 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: george76

Seems that for some reason, the boat owners of America are for President Trump. I have not seen any mention of a SLOJOEANDHISHO boat parade, but thousands of boats have launched on behalf of President Trump. Do boat owners also own guns? Who would have guessed?


39 posted on 08/17/2020 4:45:38 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: redfreedom
Granted, the large blue metro areas hold the votes, but the red areas hold the guns and will not let them go like the sheep of Germany, Russia or China.

One can only hope. However, I have two adult kids and one grandson. Although they grew up in the country around guns, they have no serious interest in them. This is completely different from when we were kids. When we were kids, we couldn't get enough of them. I have never tried to force them into developing marksmanship skills. I will say that lately, both my kids have expressed interest in firearms out of fear of the times. Upon which, I told them they had a lot of catching up to do regarding their firearm skills. I'm anxiously awaiting them to start making the time to come back here to the country and start working on this.

40 posted on 08/17/2020 5:30:52 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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