Arizona/United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Increasingly, Kyrsten Sinema maybe posing a serious dilemma for Second Amendment supporters. She’s not exactly a friend of the Second Amendment, given her past voting history. Since the election, she’s opposed three of the Supreme Court justices who issued the majority ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen.
However, in a post-Bruen world, she may be the best sort of enemy to have. Her opposition to nuking the filibuster saved us from seeing a packed Supreme Court and has probably saved us from seeing the courts rigged against us for generations.
Sinema even has called for putting the nuclear genie back into the bottle vis-à -vis the Senate. While that may be pie-in-the-sky thinking, when it comes down to it, she seems determined to lower the temperature and doesn’t demonize us. Small stuff, but important small stuff.
Why is that? Because despite her crappy voting record, Sinema is at the very least not willing to destroy the system to enact an extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda like gun bans or a licensing and registration scheme. Nor does she seem willing to go along with packing the courts.
Our constitutional system is a crucial bulwark in protecting our Second Amendment rights and its preservation is crucial, and Sinema has taken great risks by preserving that system. Unlike some anti-Second Amendment activists who claim to want the temperature lowered, Sinema has backed her words with actions while facing incredible political pressure, and has become a target as a result.
She’s literally put her political career on the line to preserve our system of government. For Second Amendment supporters, who seek to preserve the Constitution, this matters – and it should matter a great deal – and we do owe Sinema a debt on that front.
On the other hand, Sinema isn’t exactly our best friend, either. Reference her voting history, for one example. Her first vote the last two Congresses was for Chuck Schumer to be Senate Majority Leader, and her vote in the upcoming Congress will be the same as it was the last two times. That also has to matter.
With all the hype that Liz Cheney gets from mainstream media outlets for bucking her party and supposedly putting party first, there is very little attention given to Kyrsten Sinema for doing the same with regards to institutions that were put to prevent the rushes to injustice we saw in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand after horrific mass shootings.
Second Amendment supporters need to work hard to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels. The question they need to answer is if Kyrsten Simena falls into that category.
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.
JFC Harold! She may be this, BUT she is also that?!? Can’t you take a position? She is Not a supporter of the 2nd nor the Constitutional limits on power. She votes with Dems so long as she can get away with it. Kick her to the curb!
Butters and Fudds will always support Butters and Fudds.
I don’t see any “dilemma”. Kick all the enemies of the 2A to the curb, including the corrupt system and those who wholeheartedly support it, like Sinema and Harold Hutchison!
Sinema is like a yapping ankle biting Shits Tzu. Send her back to civilian life, right behind Mark Kelly. Arizona, what the Hell is wrong with you?
what is wrong with Arizona??? How about the thousands of liberals from CA moving here and bringing there left wing polices with them.
Sadly Arizona has had a pattern of electing either blatant RINOs (McCain and Flake) or worthless Democrats (Mark Kelly and Sinema), even before the influx of California scum.
The POS are moving to Montana also but a couple harsh winters and the low life scumbags will be driven out to a warmer state .
I live west of philly, and the same thing happens here. People move here from the cesspool that philly is, then they want it to be like philly when they get here. Trash, garbage and MASKS everywhere and the crime rate increases constantly.
What the hell is wrong with Arizona is Tom Steyer’s NextGen America registering nonresident college students to vote in AZ elections. They are real proud of swinging AZ to Biden and putting Mike Bloomberg’s trained monkey kelly into the Senate. There were over 92,000 non-resident and foreign students attending AZ universities in 2020. NextGen was successful in getting about half of them to vote. That’s 46,000 votes. Kelly and Biden won by less than 10,000 each. So what’s wrong with Arizona is well coordinated election fraud.
Too much of our cake has been given away to those with no agenda but to destroy this country and do away with the values it was founded upon. There is no room for compromise and working with the other side any more. Such activity, the likes of which HH constantly spews is why we are in the position we are in now. Deal with them as you would any other rabid pest you might encounter.
Just because a liberal (and openly bi-sexual) Democrat does one good thing doesn’t make her acceptable. Hitler liked dogs and kids, but would that have been enough to vote for him? Leopards don’t change their spots and Democrats don’t change their base behavior.
Unbelievable! Why, why, WHY does Harold — or anyone sane — give even the slightest support for a Democrat legislative candidate, especially when the US Senate is split 50-50 between the parties, and JUST ONE seat can change its balance? The majority party in the U.S. House or Senate controls major functions of that body, including committee chairmanship. I don’t care if the Democrat candidate is Mother Teresa — VOTE REPUBLICAN to keep the D’s from continuing to destroy the only country in the world founded on the principles of liberty.
Democrats are like a rabid coyote they are dangerous until they die from thier disease
Sadly, American politics has degenerated to voting for the lesser of two evils. Need a heaping dose of, as a Warrior12.com Tee states,….”….Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of those who threaten it.” Shit load of pursuin’ needin’ done……
YAWN There is no “dilemma” This whole issue is moot for most of us until we are looking at a ballot with her name on that ballot — and even then it probably won’t be a dilemma, most likely it will be a simple decision. For the vast majority of us, all those “well she’s not that bad” second-thoughts only matter if you live in Arizona and her name is on the ballot running against a RINO. Now if you happen to be a serious player on the national level then all this drivel might be a factor weighing how… Read more »