Green Car Report Responds to Gingrich Comment

So this week Newt Gingrich noted that he didn’t like the Chevy Volt because it couldn’t have a gun rack. The exact quote was:

“Let me start from a simple premise that Oklahomans will understand: you cannot put a gun rack in a Volt.”

Well, of course Green Car Report wasn’t going to take that sitting down and offered this snide rebuttal:

As for the Gingrich gun-rack contention, it took Volt owner Scott Faque less than a day to prove Gingrich wrong.
Not that it’s likely that hunters would take a Volt off-roading into the back country to go hunting anyhow. But never mind that.

Gun racks: ‘bad idea’

High Gear Media’s resident gun expert, Kurt Ernst, said experienced firearms instructors (he is one) consider gun racks “a really, really bad idea” in general.

Guns openly mounted in vehicles pose an obvious and severe theft risk.

While it was proven that a gun rack would fit in the car, the points that “hunters” would not take the car “hunting” just shows how little the media understands the issue of firearms. Why is this always about hunting? We have nothing against hunting and do believe there is both a right to hunt, and a culture of hunting, the fact is that the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting, and Gingrich never said anything about hunting.

As for the point the use of gun racks is a matter of opinion, but the theft risk is only if you leave the gun unattended.

 

American Thinking Offers Thought Provoking Thoughts on Obama

This week American Thinker offered some thoughts from Dr. Warren Beatty in a piece titled, “From Obama, What Next?” This included a passage on the Second Amendment:

Let’s turn our attention to the Second Amendment. Obama’s most lasting impact on gun control is through the appointment of Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both gun control advocates, to the Supreme Court. While paying lip service to the second amendment, he told Sarah Brady, “I just want you to know that we are working on [gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.” What good will the second amendment be if/when all guns have been “controlled” out of existence?

Very good points, in fact excellent – but what is notable is that few media outlets would agree that Obama is so dangerous to the Second Amendment, but as we’ve noted that statement about the Second Amendment is so very disturbing.

Beatty also noted:

In a radio interview on November 6, 2011, Obama said that if Congress is not willing to pass legislation he wants, he will do it himself in order to win another term.

Shocking, absolutely shocking. While the media and the anti-gun zealots may say Obama hasn’t done enough – we are watching and we know that an anti-gun agenda is very much part of his second term.

The New American Notes LaPierre’s Warning Against a Second Obama Term

Last week Wayne LaPierre offered his thoughts on why a second term for President Obama could be bad for gun owners, and the website The New American listed some of the concerns, instead of merely offering the usual media retort “Obama hasn’t actually been anti-gun.”

So while the liberal media may like to suggest that Obama hasn’t been that anti-gun, it was The New American that offered this thought:

And even during his first term, as The New American has documented extensively, Obama has been openly hostile to gun rights. He has pushed for international treaties that purport to limit the Second Amendment, issued so-called “executive orders” supposedly establishing unconstitutional restrictions on gun rights, and much more.

If Obama were to be reelected to a second term, the intense pressure on the unalienable rights of Americans would undoubtedly increase. And with a Congress that largely refuses to stand up for the Constitution, there would seem to be little to stop an all-out assault on freedom by the executive branch.

Let’s just hope voters know this come November.

National Rifle Association: Diminishing the Constitution

From the NRA:

It is certainly no surprise for gun owners to see the New York Times run a story belittling the United States Constitution.

After all, the Times has worked for decades to devalue our founding document.

“[I]ts influence is waning,” opines the Times. It is “terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights.” The paper faults the Constitution for being difficult to amend and reflective of the times in which it was written. While the Times does not go so far as to claim the U.S. Constitution has been bad for America, it does lament that it is of “little current use to, say, a new African nation.”

But it was a much bigger shock when the Times reported in the same story that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a sitting associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and grande dame of the Court’s liberal voting bloc, shares the Times’ dim view of the Constitution.

Ginsburg said “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Her personal recommendations would instead include “the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Convention on Human Rights.”

None of this should come as a surprise. One wonders, for example, if Justice Ginsburg even looks to the United States Constitution when interpreting it in 2012. Having had only limited success in getting the courts to creatively re-imagine the Constitution to suit their individual tastes, America’s legal, academic, and media elites are now determined to minimize what is left of the founding charter’s original meaning and intent by making unflattering comparisons to “sexier,” more expansive documents that empower state bureaucracies, undermine individual rights, and micromanage citizens’ day-to-day lives.

Those who hold this view would be happy see our Constitution abandoned in favor of a more “modern” document that grants “rights” such as health care, housing and employment, while eliminating protections for the right to keep and bear arms and restrictions on the powers of the central government.

What these visionaries see as deficiencies in our Constitution are exactly the things that make it work so well. Its purpose is to guarantee fundamental rights and to protect liberty by restricting government power.

While it is lamentable that the Times cannot see the greatness of our Constitution, it is far more troubling that Justice Ginsburg cannot.

And most troubling of all is the possibility that if elected to a second term, President Obama could appoint even more justices who share Justice Ginsburg’s views.

About:
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. Visit: www.nra.org

CPAC: NRA CEO and EVP Wayne LaPierre at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy Loses District

We’re pleased to report that anti-gun zealot Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) will have a tough battle to stay in the Congress. She’s not facing re-election this year because his district has been cut, as New York State loses two seats in Congress.

Interestingly McCarthy’s district could go to maintain the Queens-Brooklyn seat that is currently held by Republican Bob Turner, the first GOPer to hold the seat ever. This seat previously belong to disgraced Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Even Left-Leaning Daily Beast Sees “Bloomberg’s Gun-Control Ad Is the Wrong Move for Obama”

Apparently the left-leaning news site The Daily Beast didn’t like that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to make gun control a real issue in this country. This isn’t because writer Adam Winkler or anyone at The Daily Beast actually believes in the Second Amendment, but they know that “Bloomberg’s Gun-Control Ad Is the Wrong Move for Obama.” Winkler writes:

President Obama focusing on gun control this year would only stimulate gun-related interest groups, like the National Rifle Association, and encourage them to spend even more money to turn out the vote for Republican candidates. Of course the gun lobby is going to oppose Obama’s reelection no matter what.

Winkler then tries to defend Obama on the record:

The NRA and its allies, however, have a credibility problem on this issue. Ever since Obama won the Democratic Party nomination in 2008, the NRA has been ominously warning gun owners about what the organization calls Obama’s “10 Point Plan to ‘Change’ the Second Amendment.” The NRA promised that Obama would “ban [the] use of firearms for home self-defense,” “pass federal laws eliminating your right-to-carry,” and “close down 90 percent of the gun shops in America.” None of these things has happened.

What Winkler does say is that President Obama did have a White House summit that called for “reasonable gun control,” which to us is actually an unreasonable call. Additionally, Obama did tell Sarah Brady he was in fact working on gun control but “under the radar.” These are points that The Daily Beast either forgot, or didn’t want brought up.

Finally after giving various weak arguments on the points, this article closes with:

Gun violence is a serious issue that deserves our leaders’ attention. Yet given the obvious downside risk of promoting gun control in an election year, gun-control advocates should hope that, when it comes to guns, Obama just keeps his mouth shut.

So what we are seeing is that someone believes there is a real problem – one we think is dramatically overstated – and yet says he hopes his guy “just keeps his mouth shut.” Democracy at work indeed!

Gun Owners of America: Dick Lugar Brags About Voting For Assault Weapon Ban Monday

In this 1996 ad, Sen. Dick Lugar boasts about his vote for the Clinton gun ban.

Lugar, the most anti-gun Republican in the Senate, is facing Richard Mourdock (www.richardmourdock.com) in a May 2012 primary.

Help educate gin voters on Lugar’s record of infringing on the Second Amendment, like this video and help spread this link around.

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About:
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue. `The only no comprise gun lobby in Washington’ – Ron Paul

AngolaPress Reports: “Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control”

The international media has noted something that the mainstream media in the United States either fails to grasp OR wants to conceal from the American public. The gun lobby’s power is voters. Consider this bit from this weekend’s AngolaPress story focusing on Mayor Bloomberg’s recent push with his Mayors Against Illegal Guns ad that was scheduled to run during the Super Bowl:

Candidates for local and national office in the U.S. have faced sharp backlashes for advocating restraints on gun ownership, such as assault weapons or guns on campus. Such pushes draw fire from the well-funded National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies. For many defenders of the Constitution’s Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – guns are the single issue on which they vote.

Read that final sentence. Doesn’t this clearly explain that the power of the NRA is convincing voters? “Guns are the single issue on which they vote.” Now the anti-gun crowd might not like this fact, and the media may even try to hide this truth, but this is the actual power of the NRA – that it speaks to those who are single issue voters.

The article adds:

Democrats, who are more likely than Republicans to favor some restrictions on gun ownership, made a conscious decision to stay away from the gun issue in the 2010 midterm congressional elections. The aim: protect the so-called Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who didn’t toe the party line on gun control. Most were defeated anyway.

If the Democratic Party hoped to keep the gun issue off center stage in the 2012 presidential race, MAIG’s campaign makes that unlikely. So does the fact that the NRA and the gun industry’s trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), have announced they will have a combined war chest of $225 million.

Now let’s take another view, if the Democrats have stayed away from this issue isn’t it because they are scared of losing the election? The anti-crowd cries foul and tries to point that the NRA has two much power, forgetting that it is really the single issue voters who are speaking their mind.

How is this different from other issues? It is in that the anti-gun crowd doesn’t want this to be a fair fight.

Gun Rights Policies with John Snyder: Religious, Gun Rights Advocates Must Unite Against Obama on Civil Rights

Gun Rights Policies with John Snyder:

Gun rights advicates have been wise to Obama from the start, and religious leaders are now beging to wake up to the threat of this president.

Civil rights advocates of various interests must unite against Obama because he cannot be trusted to uphold civil rights.

GunRightsPolicies.org
John M. Snyder
Manager
Telum Associates, LLC
Arlington, VA
202-239-8005

About John Snyder:
Named the Gun Dean by Human Events, “the senior rights activist in Washington” by Shotgun News, a “champion of the right to self-defense” by The Washington Times, and “dean of gun lobbyists” by The Washington Post and The New York Times, John M. Snyder has spent 45 years as a proponent of the individual Second Amendment civil right to keep and bear arms as a National Rifle Association editor, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, treasurer of the Second Amendment Foundation, and founder of www.GunRightsPolicies.org.

A former Jesuit seminarian, Snyder is founder/manager of Telum Associates, LL.C., founder/chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., a director of Council for America, and serves on the boards of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and the American Federation of Police & Concerned Citizens. He is also the author of the book Gun Saint. Visit: www.GunRightsPolicies.org

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