Enough With Being “Reasonable’ About Guns.
Back in 2016, you may recall that our friends in
Fairfax (a.k.a. the NRA) not only
endorsed Sleazy Don for President at an unprecedented (for them) early date,
but combined this decision with an attack narrative that went far beyond anything
they had previously said or done. Remember Dana ‘home-school-queen’ Loesch warning
‘every lying member of the media’ that their ‘time has come?’ Recall how
Wayne-o showed
up at C-PAC and told the adoring audience that the media ‘wants to make us less
free?’
The problem with lumping their PR strategy together with what Trump was whining about on the campaign
trail, is that it never occurred to the leadership of America’s ‘first civil
rights organization’ that maybe, just maybe, the whole thing would hit a dead
end. And the dead end occurred back in November, when the Democrats handed Trump
and the GOP a startling and
staggering loss. Despite
claims by Sleazebag Don and fathead Limbaugh that the election was a ‘victory’
for the red team, in fact, neither Party has ever gained as many House seats in
any election since 1938.
More important than the size of the victory is the fact
that the blue team now has a national leader who cleaned Sleazy Don’s clock
this week by responding to his taunts about the ‘radicals’ running the
Democratic Party by telling him that as for the State of the Union, he could
stay away. The best example of the
collapse of America’s great deal-maker was his comment
that he might look for an alternate site for delivering the speech. Why not the
Trump International Hotel? He could walk
over from the White House in ten minutes or less.
So the bottom line is that the world has changed both
for our friends in the gun-control movement as well as for our friends who run
the NRA. Between trying to pick up the pieces of their
dopey Carry Guard
insurance program, defending themselves against allegations of all kinds of
nefarious election
activities and looking to put together a new list of corporate
partners offering discounts to the NRA faithful,
there’s not a lot of time left over to promote the agenda of Sleazebag Don. So
they have fallen back on what they do best, namely, posturing themselves as
being stalwart defenders of our beloved 2nd-Amendment ‘rights.’ And
the most effective way to get that message across is to claim that all those groups
advocating ‘reasonable’ gun laws are nothing more than fronts for the
continued efforts of Mike Bloomberg to get rid of guns.
If you were the mayor of a city where shootings were a
routine part of life, how could you not want to get rid of guns? Frankly, I never
understood why anyone would be either surprised or upset by the fact that a guy
like Bloomberg would be against guns. Now maybe if he had been responsible for
public safety in a quiet little town somewhere in the Midwest, it would be
difficult to imagine him leading an anti-gun crusade. But his views on gun
violence happen to align a lot more consistently with his background and experiences
than the positions on gun violence taken by that stupid, vulgar, POS-landlord
who happens to be sitting in the White House right now.
Just as Gun-nut Nation was probably unprepared for the
strength and depth of November’s blue wave, I also suspect that the outcome of
the 2018 election came as something of a shock to my friends in the gun
violence prevention movement, a.k.a. the GVP.
Which brings me to the real reason for what I want to say today.
Given the new political realities in DC, I think it’s time for my GVP friends to drop all this nonsense about supporting ‘reasonable’ gun laws and tell it like it is. Either you end gun violence by ending open access to the guns which cause the violence (read: handguns) or you don’t. If Nancy’s willing to tell Sleazebag Don to stick it you know where, why can’t my friends in the gun-control movement say the same thing to the NRA?
