“Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill to protect federal funding for school hunting and archery courses after the Biden administration interpreted the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to prohibit money from going toward shooting sports activities,” Just The News reported Thursday. “Republican Reps. Mark Green of Tennessee and Richard Hudson of North Carolina introduced the “Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act” last month, and it passed the House on Tuesday in a 424-1 vote, with the lone “Nay” coming from Texas Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar.”
It’s fair to point out that this is yet another piece of evidence that the Giffords gun grab group is exploiting sport shooters with false promises if it does not condemn Escobar’s betrayal of one of their core strategies – appealing to foolish “Fudds” who think if they have theirs it’s safe to throw other gun owners under the bus.
“We are proud to endorse Veronica Escobar for the US House of Representatives,” Giffords declared when promoting the incumbent in her last campaign. “Giffords was proud to endorse Veronica and we look forward to working with her in Washington,” they added after she had won.
Left unsaid is how any gun owner suckered into supporting Giffords Gun Owners for Safety should feel, especially since they signed up under the promise:
“We can prevent gun violence while also supporting the Second Amendment. Gun Owners for Safety unites hunters, sport shooters, and collectors who want commonsense gun laws.”
Escobar’s “Nay” vote also doesn’t square with the way Giffords presents its “Senior Advisor” Ryan Busse:
“Ryan is an environmental advocate who served in many leadership roles for conservation organizations, including as an advisor for the United States Senate Sportsmen’s Caucus and the Biden presidential campaign. He remains a proud outdoorsman, gun owner, father, and resident of Montana.”
What they don’t want to admit is the Second Amendment isn’t about duck hunting. And the Giffords Astroturf group is but the latest in a long line of Democrat attempts to mask their citizen disarmament agenda by presenting apparatchiks with shotguns as “reasonable” gun owners (think of “Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Biden,” and going back years before that of the phony American Hunters and Shooters Association).
Also left unsaid is where the term “sporting purposes” originated:
“The Nazi Weapons Law (18 March 1938) forbade importation of weapons under substantially the same test. Section 25(1) of that Law proclaimed: ‘It is forbidden to manufacture … and to import: Firearms which fold-down, break-down, are collapsible, or are speedily dismantled — beyond the common limits of hunting and sporting activities.’ Section 21 of the Nazi Law (and its enforcing regulations) employed the ‘sporting use’ exception also where they permitted licensed persons to carry ‘firearms, designed for — and usually used for — the hunting of fair game.’”
But don’t think for a minute that Giffords is going to stop supporting Escobar and prioritize political promises to hunters over a clear political “winner.” She wiped out her Republican challenger last election, 63.5% to 36.5%. And as long as we’re talking percentages, her district is “66.8% Persons with language other than English spoken at home” and “23.5% Foreign-born population.”
Why is that relevant?
Look at her (and the Democrats’) wider agenda, made undeniably clear by the Obama administration:
“Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have ‘earned the right to be citizens.’”
Fast forward to the present and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer:
“The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants — the DREAMers and all of them — because our ultimate goal is to help the DREAMers — but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented, there are here.”
Now, fit Escobar’s piece into the greater whole:
“We must overturn this evil and finally enact #ImmigrationReformNow for the 11 million undocumented individuals in our country and those seeking safety at our doorstep.”
What does she mean by “immigration reform now”? Literally, “Citizenship for all.” Including those on their way here.
That will — when left unchecked (which is happening daily at the border with more “surges” on the way) — as all credible polls and real-world experience show us, overwhelmingly favor Democrats and anti-gunners. Escobar’s numbers bear that out. And that in turn will result in supermajorities in state and federal legislatures that will then be able to pass whatever anti-gun edicts they want while confirming judges who will uphold those edicts –and reverse gains made to date.
Change the composition of the Supreme Court and say “Goodbye” to Bruen, just a Democrat supermajority away from the dustbin of suppressed history. Newsflash to naysayers and to “gun rights leaders” ducking the issue: This has everything to do with that “single issue.”
This is another case of the greater agenda taking precedence over fraudulent promises, and it’s not like political power player Giffords is worried about a handful of gun owners stupid enough to believe their hunting BS in the first place.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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