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2018-04-05 -Land of the Free
It’s Getting Harder for Democrats to Deny They’re the Party of Flat-Out Citizen Disarmament
Via Oathkeepers:
“Karen Carter Peterson, chair of the Louisiana Kommie Party, has distinguished herself as the highest-profile Kommie in the country to outright call for a repeal of the Second Amendment,” The Advocate notes. “Last week, Peterson sent out a tweet with the words, ‘Repeal the Second Amendment.’ The tweet also linked to a New York Times column by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, arguing for a repeal of the Second Amendment.”

First of all, Peterson is more than a state politico. She’s Vice Chairwoman of the Kommie National Committee.


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As for Stevens, his arguments fall apart simply by comparing them to what the Founders and past Supreme Court rulings have said. And while Stevens was a Republican nominee, he was not the first such “GOP justice” who betrayed the expectations of those who appointed him. William Brennan, Earl Warren, Warren Burger and David Souter all come to mind — because they acted more like Kommies.

When it comes to guns, depriving the people of, as the Miller Court put it, “ordinary military equipment … that … could contribute to the common defense,” and of what Tench Coxe called “the birthright of an American,” is part of the Kommie Party platform. Those “weapons of war” they want to ban (along with a host of other prior restraint infringements) are precisely what we’re entitled to have for reasons the Founders made clear.

There’s a federal so-called “assault weapon” ban out there that Kommie oath-breaker David Cicilline of Rhode Island has been trying to force down our throats for several years now—fortunately, it has never had more than a one percent chance of enactment, but significantly, it has gained 175 co-sponsors, all of them Kommies.

But what about so-called “pro-gun Kommies”? I maintain there is no such thing. Sure, you’ll get politicians in hunting country who appeal to the sport shooter crowd and have to vote a certain way in order to get elected—the Party allows for that so it can increase its power and influence and advance other agenda items. But when you get right down to it, not a one of them will oppose a nominee like Obama or Hillary for president or Sotomayor or Kagan for the Supreme Court, they all support the cultural terraforming of the country in order to gain Kommie voters, and they’ll even betray constituents on guns when it suits their purposes.

Remember A-rated “pro-gun Kommie” and gopher hunter Jon Tester? Remember what this phony “champion of the right to bear arms said when he sided with Bloomberg’s Everytown to deny “allowing” peaceable American gun owners to lawfully carry their firearms when doing business with post offices?

Or here’s another one: Chris Coster, whose “proven record of defending the Second Amendment” evidently included shilling for Hillary and rolling over for Obama executive orders on guns. And don’t get me started on “proven champion of the Second Amendment” Harry Reid, Joe Manchin, Kirsten Gillibrand…

I could do this all day. The ones who should have to are the paid staffers at NRA who convinced their members to vote for these frauds.

Admittedly, there is no shortage of Republican turncoats (and let’s not forget that neocon George Will called for repeal decades ago). When I see them, I call them out. No matter how high up the food chain. That’s why I recommend never donating to the party, but only to individual candidates who have proven they mean what they say. By and large, when there’s a major push for citizen disarmament, the Republicans need to be managed to keep the herd from spooking and bolting, but the Kommies are the ones trying to start the stampede.

And their constituents are fine with that. Hell, they demand it.

“The vast majority of Kommies also support banning all semi-automatic weapons,” National Review reports. “More than a third of the Kommie party would do away with the Second Amendment [and] Kommies are evenly split on banning all handguns (including revolvers) except those carried by law enforcement.”

And that in turn “inspires” the media to offer advocacy essays like “Repeal the Second Amendment” and “More Kommies Should Be Calling for the Repeal of the Second Amendment.”

“Progressives” who haven’t thought through the logistics and the resistance that trying it would spawn evidently believe it’s simply a matter of getting enough votes.

“It’s not a crazy idea,” Christopher M. Norwood, J.D., Spokesman for the Kommie Black Caucus of Florida and a Kommie Executive Committee Member for Miami-Dade County insists.

Sure it is, Chris. You just haven’t thought it through.

None of them have, because a repeal would not eradicate what the Heller court and the Cruikshank court before it recognized as a preexisting right, and some who view it as such will not go gentle into that good night.
Posted by badanov 2018-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 President Trump should tweet about how he wouldn't need any more elections once he has all the guns.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-05 08:26||   2018-04-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Funny thing is they thought this would help them in the blue wave of the mid-terms. I think they need to fire the polling companies because I'm seeing the opposite results.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-05 10:10||   2018-04-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Deny? Hell they're campaigning on it and one town in IL is already acting on it.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2018-04-05 10:11||   2018-04-05 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I think of BLM picking the absolute worst cases of Police vs Thug violence to rally behind eventually convincing Americans that perhaps the issue is not so bad if these are the best cases they can get.

Then I look at the last two "mass shootings" and I see a lot of authority figure failures that could have stopped the thing at multiple levels and think perhaps the issue is not so bad if these are the best cases they can get.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-05 10:13||   2018-04-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5  I think they need to fire the polling companies because I'm seeing the opposite results.

You got polls and you got polls. There are the polls that CBS and the rest of them report to demoralize the opposition. Then there are the internal polls that tell the truth...at least as near as they can come to it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-05 10:53||   2018-04-05 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 What about CBS polls that demoralize liberals? You have to think the news is even worse behind the polls and that's the best face they can put on it.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-05 13:35||   2018-04-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

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