Heartland by Nancy Thorner April 8, 2019
On Tuesday March 26, 2019, the Heartland Institute featured David Keene, Editor at Large of The Washington Times. Mr. Keene also served from 2011 to 2013 as president of the National Rifle Association, the nation’s largest Second Amendment membership organization. There he worked tirelessly to keep the U.S. from adopting further gun control legislation. Keene’s topic for the evening? “Ceasefire in the War on Guns is Over.â€
Mr. Keene didn’t disappoint in explaining to a full house in Heartland’s state-of-the-art Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center what gun owners can expect from Washington, D.C., the states and the courts as progressive Democrats and their funders launch the biggest, most coordinated and well financed attack on the Second Amendment ever.
David Keene speaks
Director of Communications at The heartland Institute, Jim Lakely, introduced David Keene as a “Titan of the Conservative movement.â€
David Keene, in turn, applauded Heartland for its work on Climate Change, further recognizing Heartland’s awareness early on that most of the action is in the states. Keene, in jesting about AOL’s Green New Deal, spoke of his eagerness to drive to Europe and of the shovel ready jobs that would incur in building the bridge.
Turning serious, Kean spoke of the late Warren Brookes who described the environment movement as “green on the outside but red on the inside.†Keene attributed the change of attitude among Democrats — which permitted the Party to morph into one that has moved far to the left — to why the ceasefire on guns ended to be replaced by the war on guns. In describing the belief system of today’s Democrats, Keene painted them as unable to accept failure with the election of President Trump or to imagine there are people who don’t believe as they do. Accordingly, all American voters must feel the same anger toward Trump as Democrats do. Trump will be sent packing in 2020. For this reason, it won’t matter which candidate is selected to challenge Trump, giving candidates the liberty to go out and say what they really think and believe.
War on Guns
Keene explained how prior to 1960 there was no war on guns. The Founders knew what they were doing when they wrote the 2nd amendment, with both parties in agreement that individuals and families had a right to defend themselves.
It was in the 60’s when change began to take place in both parties. In the newly emerging Democrat Party a two-front culture war arose targeting abortion and guns. The gun issue continues today.
Over the past 40 year–much like in the anti-nuke movement–there are those who have come to view the anti-gun movement as a quasi-religious movement, believing that if only the U.S. would disarm unilaterally the world would live in peace. Our nation is the only country who recognizes the right to self-defense. The UN does not. Today hostility toward guns has become far more than just guns in themselves. Democrats also dislike the 2nd amendment because of is hostility toward the government, especially in the way it limits government.
One reason gun laws weren’t legislated over the ensuing years is because evidence was considered in Congressional gun law debates. Through the persuasion of argument those who wanted gun laws, despite cries to do something, were convinced that doing something would stop nothing, but would instead create a backlash; therefore, when push came to shove gun laws failed.
More:
http://blog.heartland.org/2019/04/second-amendments-future-rests-with-control-of-supreme-court/
