United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- One thing that has become quite clear lately – anti-Second Amendment extremists no longer are hiding what they want. Some are openly calling for Australia-style gun bans. Others want the Second Amendment repealed. In a lot of cases, Second Amendment supporters are justified in perceiving hatred on the part of anti-Second Amendment extremists. This is both good news and bad news for Second Amendment supporters.
The Bad News
Let’s start with the bad news coming from this. The fact is, anti-Second Amendment extremists now feel comfortable calling for some of the most extreme parts of their agenda. In some ways, the Bruen decision left them with nothing to lose. The opinion pretty much strikes down a lot of their agenda, so why settle for half-measures, especially with the vocal calls from politicians to and left-wing pundits to expand the Supreme Court?
It isn’t just the more blatant attacks and defiance of the Supreme Court. Anti-Second Amendment extremists are looking for other avenues, including litigation – sidestepping the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in some cases. The recent hearings over marketing is setting up a new line of attack – one that an anti-Second Amendment attorney general like Letitia James could use to bankrupt firearms manufacturers.
Then, of course, there is the ever-present threat of financial deplatforming and other forms of corporate gun control. Corporations are not bound by the Second Amendment, only the government. Worse, Second Amendment supporters are behind the curve on this front.
All is not lost, but there are going to be some very real challenges that Second Amendment supporters must address – and keep in mind, should the likes of David Hogg get the power they seek, they will not hesitate to blow up things like the filibuster to get what they want.
The Good News
There is good news, though – with anti-Second Amendment extremists calling for gun bans and repealing the Second Amendment, they have staked out extreme positions. In a sense, they have now handed us credibility because we have warned they wanted to take people’s guns for decades.
Their desire to blow up various institutions and guardrails can also be used against them. In some cases, this will require educating Americans about why certain safeguards and institutions were erected in the first place – but that can be done successfully, provided Second Amendment supporters come across as reasonable and respectful of their fellow Americans.
Furthermore, as things stand, their anti-Second Amendment extremism is going nowhere. So, they will be railing for stuff that doesn’t fly. That will force them to take measures that are, if you will, not exactly within the norms of democracy. We can literally turn to elected officials in states to properly handle financial deplatforming.
This shift in tone by anti-Second Amendment extremists will need to be dealt with. Part of it is going to require rhetorical restraint on our part despite what will be provocative statements by our enemies. If this shift is properly addressed, Second Amendment supporters could make huge steps towards consistently defeating anti-Second Amendment extremism via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
Rule by mob is what this country has become. The very notion that if they disagree with an outcome, they ignore it, redefine it, reinterpret or invalidate by faux proxy. There are no longer absolutes when it comes to our Constitution. Even the sovereignty of the three branches of government are in question when politicians can manipulate or question decisions made by another.
They have forgotten who they work for /// once in office they learn to serve only the elite or their political career ends quickly. The deep state is now incontrol those elected have sold their souls for money and the promise of a little power. Those who fight back are attacked the deep state uses all the tools in there chest.
Yet even when caught democrats do not prosecute their own
“republicans” must also be included in your otherwise good comment.
I fear that the republican party is wearing many hats while their divide grows larger by the day. Elected political criminals that’s a mouth full EPC for short.
not so sure it is a cohesive party ,more like a freely associated group….with similar beliefs
Questioning the actions of another in the political arena IS ACCEPTABLE. The is the reason for the THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. The problem lies with HOW an “agenda” is FORCED upon the Public by a small group of INSERECTIONISTS who vote in “LOCK STEP”. This is occurring now in the CONgress by the NWO sycophants! Both DemoKKKrats AND RepubliCANT TYRANTS, and yes, TRAITORS are in this CABAL and COUP AGAINST the American Citizens of America!! I HOPE and PRAY the “Tree of liberty” – 1787 Thomas Jefferson, does not have to be watered!
closer and closer to vote by proxy mine is a 50 a wall a vest no mater my vote will count
LETS ASK THESE ‘GUN HATERS’ IF > THEY EVER HAVE BEEN = MUGGED? BEATED ? RAPED? GANG BEATEN? OR HAD A FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIEND MURDERED? THEY “HAVE NO SAY IN THIS MATTER! WE CITIZENS WHO ARE IN ” HIGH CRIME AREAS : EXPERIENCE THREATS EVERY DAMN DAY ! WE ARE SCARED FOR OUR LIVES! AND YOU INCONSIDERATE IGNORANT HEARTLESS PEOPLE WANT “US DEFENCELESS”? YOU ALL ARE “SICK INDIVIDUALS”! THIS IS ” THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” – NOT A ‘COMMUNIST COUNTRY’! WE WERE GIVEN A “CONSTITUTION” TO PROTECT ‘OURSELVES ‘ FROM A “TYRANNICAL- DICTATORSHIP RULE”! AND… Read more »
Don’t forget Seattle and Portland. The west coast is beginning to mimick the Midwest and the east.
if the answer is no proceed to beat them sencefull as they are senseless to start with
Why all caps? How about the spelling? Antis reading this will laugh at pro-gunners. Let me say that your statements are mostly correct.
I was told recently be a useless Democrat who came onto gun club property that “We’re going to take away your guns and we will be in full control.” That is their endgame.
Should have been cited for trespassing while threaten members .
The guy was a guest and he acted like that! Wow.
Someone needs to ask Letitia James how bankrupting Gun Manufacturers is going to remove guns from the hands of the brothers in her own neighborhood. Let’s ask the law abiding citizens in her own community, where her efforts should be directed instead of her sensationalistic political escapades.
Keep bringing in more corrupt politicians, illegals/refugees/asylum voters & a schism/chasm in society is baked into those results.
Greed is good false dogma for those at the top & running the Clown show.
Voting has become a questionable process for many Americans, The party in power has already begun to suppress the midterms with the continued fear mongering .
Mail in ballots a democratic politicians dream come true. “Monkey Poxs Omicron 5 .0 Mandates NYS already in emergency status What democratic state is next?
The November elections will be a defining point for our country.
California Illinois now join NYS in going to a state of emergency Monkeypox Get ready get set for election fraud 101 5.0 again.
John, you’ve brought up “monkey pox” several times in this newsletter, it seems that our ancestors ,from biblical times right up to the sixties weren’t Enlightened, but they didn’t have aids nor monkey pox. The Enlightened generations since, well educated and neutered have brought about the end of normality as the world has always known it. Queer nation is killing itself off without Gods help.
syphilis was more prevalent in queer population in the past
What’s the first sign of monkeypox?
A pounding in the ass.
Where, in the NT, do the anti-queer statements exist?
God creates perfectly good diseases to reduce the homosexual population, and our government spends huge amounts of our tax money, against our will, to negate his work.
But notice how the facts about how Monkeypox is spread are seldom or never mentioned. The CDC says over 95% of Monkeypox cases are caused by intimate sexual conduct by homosexual or bisexual males! So, I guess you could also call it “FaggotPox”!!
If we only vote for the right people and play by the rules, they will see the light and come around.
/sarc
None of this is “bad news” imo. The more they come.out of the shadows the easier they are to defend against. How many firearms owners and 2A supporters have boycotted various products and businesses that are pro-gun control? How many are unaware that they are doing business with those who contribute to pro-gun control measures and politicians under cover of dusk (example: AARP)? How many would support financial institutions, goods delivery services, social and information dissemination platforms, etc that support the RTKBA. How many “moderates” who repeat the mantra “They aren’t coming for your guns” when supporting “death by a… Read more »
We younger folks are not ill informed like you older folks and Handgun control inc is now Brady. That is kind of why there was no mention of a draft after 9-11, since we older millennials would have swacked the government, like older folks did not have the honor to do. The older folks think it is normal to let the government strip Citizens of their rights and force them to be a just following orders socialists. We older millennials know that is exactly what the 2nd Amendment is to say no to, just like gun control enforcement. Those older… Read more »
You make some fine points. But not all of US fall into your boomer theory.
It’s not a good idea to sort people based on their birth date, is it?
Or the state they live in.
Or what they used to do for a living.
Or how much self sufficient people earn.
Or their religion.
You, you, you whipper-snapper, You have prevaricated. Most “older Americans” know what surrendering your fortunes, no matter how small, to engage the communists, acting as DemoKKKrats, to enable OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS to continue, not only for “Me/Us” but for ALL American Citizens who come AFTER “Me/Us”. . I am being ABUSED by the “system” even now that I am collecting a STIPENT called Social Security. Originally SS was set up as a FORCED SAVINGS PLAN for American WORKERS. CONgress, sitting in a back room, Changed SS into a “government handout” about 1970-1975 WITHOUT WE Americans being able to say… Read more »
Social Security and other socialist plans were created by the same administration that implemented the NFA of 1934.
Social Security was never a forced savings plan – it was forced wealth redistribution from the beginning.
The majority of Americans at that time loved Franklin Roosevelt and his totalitarian policies. They kept electing him over and over again until he died. The majority of Americans have wanted socialism for a long time, unfortunately.
The Social Security Act and the NFA were not created by the administration. Both are acts of Congress.
Let me rephrase:
Social Security and other socialist legislation were created by the same legislators who created the NFA of 1934.
Social Security and other socialist plans were encouraged and supported by the same administration who encouraged and supported the NFA of 1934.
Social Security and other socialists plans were signed into law by the same president who signed into law the NFA of 1934.
Much better.
Ope (Will/TEX/et al.):
“Bill,when a person like this with a well documented history of nonsense says ,,’let me rephrase’, watch out ! That’s just another way of saying ‘bullshit modification’”
Or, it could be a way to address a correct, but pedantic, comment. But, you better watch out, Ope, there’s no telling what I’m up to.
It is hardly pedantic to keep your villains straight.
it started as a voluntary retirement plan , people who did not work for big companies with a pension like the railroads could join when they did not get enough people signing up they changed it to forced
So like government.
I beg your pardon! I’m 70 years young and I never subscribed to that BS line of thinking!
It’s not a good idea to sort people based on their birth date, is it?
So we can expect no more broad generalizations from you?
I’ve pushed back against sorting people on birth date, and other factors other than policy, remember? You and some others insist on broad generalizations: “The smart phone generation” doesn’t hunt, plays video games in their mommy’s basement, etc. are “socialists.” Yankees are bad. Firearm companies shouldn’t sell to people in California (includng the 6 million people who voted for Trump) Veterans are good Rich people are elitists who want to take away people’s rights. Elderly people are smart. If “we” stop doing that, maybe “we” can stop the advancement of totalitarianism that has been progressing for a long time in… Read more »
I’ve not written those things. Generalizations applied to a specific case is a logical error. Not even allowed in court.
You have made generalizations about young people, including using “the smart phone generation” phrase as part of the generalization.
Don’t you think it is a good idea for people who want more freedom to stop making generalizations?
I do not recall using the phrase “smart phone generation”. I think that you have me confused with someone else.
“I can’t help but agree. And I’m thinking that if everybody hunted everyday, then nature’s butcher shop would not last long. So, as cruel as this may sound, I’m glad that the smart phone generation won’t be competing with us.” ~ Wild Bill
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/02/cornerstone-american-culture-requires-armed-citizenry/#axzz7aoqP4uu5
I invite you to go elk hunting with me and some of my friends in their 20s and 30s.
Are you offering to paying the expenses?
Certainly not, I’m inviting you to join us.
You can show the “smart phone generation” how well you can hike up canyons, gaining over 2,000 feet (net) in elevation a day. When the temperature dips below zero at night you can explain to them how they can’t compete with you in hunting game. They will find you fascinating.
You didn’t address your “smart phone generation” comment.
I had more time in the Big Green Machine than they have on earth. Surly you can not expect me to keep up or put up with that for free.
Gotta work that in some way, no matter how awkward.
Ok, well … give it your best effort.
you need to take a trek in the Andes hiking for days above the clouds it is like the himalayas in some ways but the ancient cities are amazing I still have a house (small farm) in the southern part of peru south of cusco there places not to go that have natives but …
Ope (Will/TEX/et al.):
“Bill,maybe this person will take a collection up from ‘young people’ to get you there! Lol”
Yes, I’m confident of it!!
What makes you think that “smart phone generation” refers to young people? Perhaps that connection is due to your own prejudices.
You could have written:
“You’re right JSNMGC, I did make a generalization about young people not hunting. I was wrong to do so.”
When have you ever admitted it?
I just indicated you were correct and I rewrote my comment about the social security and NFA Acts.
Don’t you think it is about time some people put away some of the myths (usually generalizations) and use this site more for activism?
There are a lot of young people in this country who are pro freedom.
There are a lot of people in “the north” who are pro freedom.
There are a lot of people in California who are pro freedom.
I think that I want to converse with my friends; communicate events and conditions around the country; and tell a few jokes, but not manipulate people.
Well, then it should not be difficult to name a few. Or is this another generalized hypothetical.
Over 6 million people in California voted for Trump:
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_California,_2020
I believe John lives in New Jersey. He strikes me as being pro freedom.
https://www.ammoland.com/author/jpetrolinoiii/#axzz7apGXte1v
OK.
Do you consider Wyoming “north?”
I donated to Rylee McCollum‘s family. I know they are pro freedom:
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/08/hundreds-of-people-in-jackson-welcome-home-family-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-attack/
Yes, we invented the entire world that they enjoy, yet they complain about social security!
It is still live stock killing hot, here. We are watching every animal closely.
I have oak trees that are dying. No peaches this year, and I fear for the hay crop.
True gun control is hitting what you are aiming at, Yeah you keep saying that the older people know nothing about what is going on, but it is the younger people that want guns taken away. Just look at that david hogg kid in his 20s and yet he wants guns stripped away from people he also wants the 2nd Amendment removed. A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the older people that have fought in combat that… Read more »
all the young people that want handouts hell no ,disability really ??? broke my neck in three places been shot broken bones ,It takes a bit to get going in the morning but I will work till I drop disabled my ass lazy. they want my gun so they can take what I work for good luck with that
“all the young people that want handouts”
All the people who want handouts.
The young people are a subset of all the people that want handouts.
All the people who want handouts are a subset of all the people.
See the difference?
That is no way to treat your ally.
I didn’t mistreat swmft in any way.
The fact that young people are a subset of all the people who want handouts was the very point I made.
See?
It sure looks like mistreatment in print; perhaps not to one benighted of diplomatic discourse.
he sees it all as equal I see the people who paid in as being ripped off
Yep, I’m waiting until I can draw the max, so that I get back what I put in.
the illegals getting money it is beyond belief ,miami hearld did a story about it around 2010 there was over 100,000 in south florida on disability that NEVER worked here W>>>T>>>>F ……no it is not just young people but i dont feal as bad about the people that paid in that want their money back I for one want nothing to do with va social security yes I am old enough and eligible to be collecting dont want anything to do with the goobers
I agree.
It was a scam, just like Medicare, to redistribute wealth – a core principle of Socialism (as is the progressive tax structure). I certainly don’t blame people who paid into it for wanting to get their money back.
As for all the other programs that illegal aliens and other who people didn’t pay into and from which they are benefitting, it’s all part of the plan to overload the system.
I have heard that there are eighty-three different overlapping federal assistance programs. And when did the feds ever… ever…catch a welfare cheat?
Under Biden all that was needed was a US address. Fraudsters from all over the world were getting unquestioned federal welfare money.
“it is the younger people that want guns taken away” ~ Mystic Wolf Mystic Wolf, if you look at the age of the people who are against firearm rights in 2022, you will see it includes people who are young and elderly. If you look at the history of gun control in America, you will see there have always been people who want to take away firearm rights. The people who worked on the legislation that ultimately became the NFA of 1934 were all born in the 1800s. What they wanted (and worked hard to get) was even worse than… Read more »
they look at the face of brandon and this group and dont know they were anti rights when they were young people that want power dont want people who can stop them
I’m thinking that you are on to something! Young persons who were anti Second Amendment … became old people and remained anti-firearm.
And the young persons that are anti-firearms, anti-Rights, anti-capitalism, anti-military, anti-police remain so as they pass through from young to old.
So absent an epiphany, whatever they are they will remain. We better get control of the schools… or they will be problems later.
I agree to the extent where you said there will be problems later, however there are already problems now, and the schools are where it starts…..I saw an interview with some of the folks on Jesse Watters show where, as they were partying on spring break (break from what?) were asked who fought the Revolutionary War? One, mind you they asked about 20 kids, got it right. Everyone else just shrugged and giggled that they didn’t know. Has nobody ever heard the phrase that history repeats itself? You just can’t make this crap up…..
That is scary!
It was elected representatives, the executive, and courts that diminished Rights, not older folks.
It is nice to see a “older millennial” rising to the challenge, although I doubt that your broad generalization about older millennials is true.
If you can defeat the libtards, elitists, and global money men, and reestablish control over our various governments, then my hat is off to you.
bet you fell for the “vaccine” lie and the lack of real information on things like far c lighting and truly useful tools
Being as I am living in social darkness, ignoring minority groups, and virtually ineffective due to my advanced years (Gen Z fyi) then I should ask forgiveness for; the decades spent stumping firearm ownership rights on any and all available platforms including street corners, the countless hours spent speaking on the state congressional floor against anti second amendment bills, the countless hours spent educating county councils on shotgun patterns/distance/and shot terminal velocity each time they attempt to close a hunting area, the years spent educating the general public any time they are willing to open a solid discourse, the years… Read more »
what trans gender deserters are now the norm
criminal deserters have gender reassignment surgery at our expense , general calls china he wont listen to trump military orders how much is left of what we knew
Look at it this way the anti gun nuts are like zombies they are now coming out of the shadows and we can see them for what they are, these anti gun anti American zombies are nothing. We can fight against them and push them over, things like that dzvid hogg they are not even worth getting worked up over as they are not worth the time of day. Since we know who many of these communists are we can vote them out of office, many of those that have shown hate for the CONSTITUTION do not belong in that… Read more »
deported to whatever shit hole their family came from
“Any more”
“No longer”
Harold, the group of people who pushed the anti-firearm rights legislation that ultimately became the NFA of 1934 wanted far more regulation than what was included in the final bill.
Those people were all born in the 1800s.
The group included southerners (some who were farmers before becoming legislators).
The group included veterans who later became lawyers before becoming legislators.
The group included Republicans (some of the most extreme views were held by Republicans).
The group included people in law enforcement.
Tyrannical, anti-firearm rights views are nothing new.
the laws were to keep the black ww1 vets disarmed
Who knows their real reason? In between reading Ammoland, I’m reading the transcripts on the “Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives, 73rd Congress” as they discuss H.R. 9066 on April 16, 18, and May 14, 15, and 16, 1934. They clearly state, over and over again, the need to get them gangsters. Law enforcement stated they knew who the bad guys were, they just couldn’t get evidence on them for doing gangster things, so they needed more laws. It’s a wild read – they are frank about using the power to tax to do things they know would be… Read more »
The real reason is simple. The government tried to use religion to harm the Citizens Liberty to drink, and the Citizens said no with violence like the 2nd Amendment recognized the need to do from time to time to protect Liberty. No different than the tyranny of the Church of England, that the Founder’s had to put down.
All gun control, is to protect the government’s enforcers and the government’s power. Armed Citizens can’t be forced to do anything, since we can say no to the enforcer.
Nobody had to fear them, since the private sector still kept them out of civilized areas. The 1934 gun laws were to destroy the 2nd Amendment, that those who valued Liberty just used on the government to repeal tyranny by law. Those who valued Liberty told the government and their enforcers No, and the best mode of communication to express that was fully automatic weapons and rough men using them. The government and its supporters used religion to justify tyranny by law with prohibition, and good Americans swacked them. Then, after prohibition was repealed the government went after guns, to… Read more »
These “laws” were past not JUST against WWl Veterans, but before them, the FREED Slaves!
As were the original Gun Control laws instituted after the War Between the States!
“this requires educating Americans about why certain safeguards & institutions were erected”
There’d be lots of money for that if your hero LaPew & his “Winning Team” hadn’t wrecked NRA & grift-squandered $billions since their 1997 coup.
STRIKE GROUP ROGAINE helped RINO Oz trash Barnette since “an ‘extremist’ can’t win”. Oz -11 & falling. Thx to “prags” the base don’t give a F, we’ll never know if a real R could’ve won. Can’t win if you refuse to even try.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_oz_vs_fetterman-7695.html