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CCRKBA chides Boxer on security scare - Is Hillary boosting gun sales? :: 05/24/2016
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today rather publicly told anti-gun California Sen. Barbara Boxer that if she “feared for her safety” in the wake of an incident in Nevada last week, instead of surrounding herself with security, she might consider getting a gun.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, returning from the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Kentucky, observed, “Boxer has traditionally supported restrictive gun laws to keep people disarmed, so she should try buying a gun and find out firsthand what it’s like to be treated the same way as her constituents. She will discover that the laws she has favored are designed to keep average citizens unarmed and unable to defend themselves when they fear for their safety.”
This comes as Newsmax today reported that gun sales have continued to boom under President Barack Obama due to concerns about his gun control agenda, and they may rise even sharper if Hillary Clinton wins the November election. Quoting Sturm, Ruger CEO Michael Fifer, the story suggested that a Clinton presidency would “boost sales.”
Following a weekend of political rhetoric at the NRA convention that zeroed in on the Clinton campaign and her well-established position on gun rights, it should come as no surprise that the tens of thousands of gun owners who gathered in Louisville are thinking ahead. They don’t like what they see on the horizon.
After GOP likely nominee Donald Trump spoke to the NRA last Friday, social media was still busy with back-and-forth over whether some people will refuse to vote for him “on principle.” The real question should be whether those “principles” will compel them to allow Clinton to win and therefore make the next appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court and various lower federal courts where gun law questions are argued and often decided.
One observer told this column bluntly, “When people say they can’t trust Trump, they should remember that they can trust Clinton…to push gun control. They may wonder if Trump will make good appointments to the courts, but they know Clinton won’t.”
According to Newsmax, there has been an average of 2.46 million background checks each month so far this year. That translates to a lot of gun buying. Gun makers are selling every firearm they can manufacture, and the interest in guns over the weekend in the Kentucky Expo Center was huge.
By no small coincidence, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group, was out with an e-mail blast over the weekend asking recipients if they think the “gun lobby should be able to influence local elections?” Why should gun owners not have a voice in local elections? They live here, after all.
Indeed, the CCRKBA is based in Bellevue, so Washington’s local elections are just as important to their members as they are to anti-gunners. There are tens of thousands of NRA members who live in the Evergreen State, and certainly they deserve a say, don’t they?
The Alliance message added this: “They’re solidifying their plan to protect their agenda and do whatever it takes to stop common sense gun reform across the country.” So it is fair to ask this group to define what they believe is “common sense gun reform.”
They pushed so-called “universal background checks” with the argument that they would prevent crime, but so far, there has been no indication that violent crime has been slowed down anywhere in the state. Criminals and street thugs still seem to be getting their hands on guns illegally. It’s just the honest citizens who are being penalized with paperwork and red tape, expanding the state pistol registry, which many activists want to see abolished.
But it boils down to what NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox, and CCRKBA’s Gottlieb have clearly defined as a battle between political elites such as Boxer and Clinton – and their supports in the gun prohibition lobby – and tens of millions of average citizens who own firearms and cherish the Second Amendment.
Perhaps Gottlieb said it best when he noted, “Not everybody has the luxury of professional security around them. Boxer’s hypocrisy should be remembered by her constituents. She has labored to keep them vulnerable to threats while she has benefitted from the security provided by people with guns.”
The same principle applies to Clinton, who has enjoyed armed security for more than two decades. It also applies to anti-gun billionaires and wealthy elitists who enjoy armed private security while financing political campaigns to erode the gun rights of the general public. At least, that’s what any of the people attending the weekend NRA convention would explain.
http://www.examiner.com/article/ccrkba-chides-boxer-on-security-scare-is-hillary-boosting-gun-sales
