VP In Waiting: J.D. Vance Has Loads of 2A Cred, Will Drive Antis Crazy

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Senator J.D. Vance just might be the closest thing to perfection as a vice presidential candidate. IMG Jim Grant

Freshman U.S. Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, nominated to run as Donald Trump’s vice president this fall, has solid credentials as a Second Amendment stalwart, giving American gun owners all the reason necessary to vote in November and be done with the vehemently anti-gun Biden-Harris administration.

Long story short, Vance as a U.S. Senator already makes anti-gunners grimace. As vice president, he just might drive them crazy.

For a look at how the gun prohibition lobby is reacting, just look at the Everytown for Gun Safety website. “He opposed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and supported arming teachers in classrooms,” Everytown complains, as though Vance’s positions may cause the earth to reverse orbit.

The Washington Post is reporting almost breathlessly that “In 2022, Vance said he favored abolishing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which enforces federal gun laws.”

Vance as a solid 2A candidate appears to be the prevailing view from leading authorities in the firearms community, making him the perfect contrast to Kamala Harris, who has never seen a gun control proposal she didn’t reflexively embrace. If they debate, Vance will likely shred Harris on the subject of guns, rights and violent crime.

Randy Kozuch, chairman of the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund, released a statement extolling Vance’s 2A virtues: “President Trump has made an outstanding choice in selecting Senator Vance as his vice presidential pick and running mate in the upcoming election. Senator Vance has been an unwavering supporter of constitutional freedoms, especially the right to keep and bear arms. In the U.S. Senate, he has consistently stood against the Biden-Harris gun control agenda. Between now and November, the NRA and its millions of members will engage with America’s gun owners about the importance of electing the Trump-Vance ticket.”

Likewise, Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, wrote in a blog, “In naming Sen. Vance his running mate for the 2024 election, former President Trump has tapped a strong Second Amendment stalwart and someone who proudly stands with the firearm industry and law-abiding Americans from coast-to-coast who believe in exercising their Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms.”

When he wrote in an Op-Ed published by the Columbus Dispatch on July 20, 2021, Vance observed, “But I will be the first to admit that gun violence rates are too high in this country. At the same time, Democrat arguments for gun control rest on a series of falsehoods.

“Violence in our country is much more about density than guns,” he continued. “That’s why the Biden Administration’s dull attempts to curb gun violence don’t work and they threaten the very foundation of the rights we are afforded as free, American citizens.

“Biden has also pushed for executive orders that would restrict ‘ghost guns’ and certain types of firearm braces,” Vance wrote. “This is the worst kind of political showmanship: these restrictions will make it harder for law-abiding Ohioans to exercise their Second Amendment rights and neither will have even a small effect on gun violence in our country.”

When he was running for office, Grupexit recalled, Vance vowed to “fight those who confiscate guns, whether it’s federal bureaucrats passing laws or multinational corporations punishing people for exercising their rights.”

NBC News was quick to reveal, whether intentionally or otherwise, the Biden campaign’s strategy to portray Vance as an extremist, while also acknowledging the Biden Bunch’s intention of campaigning on the abortion issue. After all, Biden cannot possibly run on his economic record, or on border security, and even on his foreign policy agenda, which has been a disaster from Afghanistan to Ukraine.

As described by PBS, Vance is the epitome of a Horatio Alger character; the impoverished youngster who climbed from rags to riches, or at least comfortable upper middle class.

Vance is a Marine Corps veteran who attended Ohio State University and Yale Law School. “He worked as a corporate lawyer before moving into the tech industry as a venture capitalist,” PBS detailed.

Where some may still harbor concerns about former President Trump when it comes to guns, Vance is reportedly is a good friend of Donald Trump, Jr., who is widely known as an avid hunter and shooter.

In summation, J.D. Vance may be the closest thing to perfection for America’s “gun voters” in an election where every vote will count.

And over the next 16 weeks, all of those voters need to be reminded to ignore any mention of a “red wave,” because that sort of talk cultivates apathy and provides an excuse for not voting. Ditto, claims that “your vote won’t count,” which only discourages people from voting. This was the mistake Virginia voters made last year, and America’s gun voters made in 2020. Grassroots gun rights activists know this cannot happen again.

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Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.Dave Workman

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gregs

seems like a good choice for a number of reasons, prog head spinning is just one. now if trump would pick someone like brandon herrera to run the fbi or batfe.

Finnky

Maybe John Lovell to head the SS? Current Pepsi-queen certainly has to go. I’m actually a bit shocked she’s not gone already – but figure biden approves her performance (not her fault shooter missed) and even if he didn’t he’s only in office for a few months – and doesn’t have memory to remember he needs to fire anyone.

Buckshot

Or Dan Bongino.

linkman

The current head of the SS fired or resign? You must be kidding. Her incompetence or malfeasance was about 1″ from getting Trump killed. Biden will promote her if he can.

swmft

batfe needs to be gone no head no agents no files nothing

Oldman

Maybe Trump should dismantle the BATFE…..I am not sure if there is any hope left for the FBI either…..I loved JD’s speech last night where he incorporated his Meemaw’s story about having guns stashed all over her house to protect her family. That was in his book, but Ron Howard did not put it in the movie………..wonder why?…I don’t!

Enemy of Democracy

As a Libertarian Party member for over 40 years, I just might vote Republican, for the first time since Reagan.

Wild Bill

Welcome aboard, brother! And help us make the Republican party more Libertarian.

DorisWise

I completely agree. I very much enjoyed what I knew at the moment Vance brought up that his grandmother had loaded guns all over her house to protect her family that the Dems/Left were going crazy.

john

The hands on the clock move forward the election in November 2024 gets closer as that clock ticks. We will have to wait and see what the democrats and the media fabricate about this Vance. One can only hope the republican party as a whole will come together and fight for our country and stand behind Trump and Vance. We should all keep an eye on Black Rock going forward Flint in my opinion can not be trusted. While Black Rock and Black Stone are two separate firms Black Stone continues to construct the largest data collection centers in our… Read more »

HLB

Thanks for the information.

HLB

DIYinSTL

I’ve been saying that about the debt for 45 years. Since then we have had one year with a balanced budget. Politicians have never seen a dollar they won’t spend 3 times.

PMinFl

Again, how convenient? It seems that Biden had just said he would step down if the doctors ordered him to, now he has covid again?

MP71

Maybe 10-5 on a good day but he still needs a 2 hour nap in the middle.

Ledesma

Health isn’t his thing. His thing is outreach to our fine lesbian-lover “community”.

AJChwick

Spot On Dave.

PMinFl

How convenient?

Ledesma

Yeah, but what about Gloria All-State? Give Goria All-State a week and anybody’s’ wife could hate them.

swmft

shut door on gun control for at least 4 years

Oldman

Really cool……..that would even be easier for trump to win.

hasbeen

when are people going to snap to the fact that it isn’t your safety they care about. what their goal is, is to reduce push back for their plans once the American people can not longer resist the dumb as crap evil they will push down your throats. wake up

Oldman

Biden does not want to leave? Don’t be surprised if he never wakes up on Friday morning. (the 19th)

Wild Bill

All “they” would have to do is give him a placebo instead of his meds. Viola, the perfect presidential assassination!

Oldman

OV, I dunno for sure. I guess you would have to know who ‘they’ are.

DIYinSTL

Are you referring to Youth In Asia? (Sorry (almost) for the double en tendre euthanasia pun.)

WatchForJoggers

He’s put his hand on the Wailing Wall, he’s the same as all the others….owned by AIPAC

Grigori

Yep! That always seems to be part and parcel of the deal, somehow.