Mark Walters
By Mark Walters
The old saying claims you should stay away from politics and religion during family gatherings, right?
Yeah, well that doesn’t always fly around my house—particularly when the political end of that equation involves my livelihood. (It has damaged relationships within my own family: not because of me, but because the liberal family member doesn’t want to talk to a relative who disagrees with their liberal positions. You know, such tolerance. So be it.)
It also doesn’t fly around AAR Ranch when my opinions are splattered all over the airwaves in a very public forum and heard in hundreds of cities by God knows how many folks. In other words, it’s not always easy to stay away from that conversation. Now, when it comes to close personal friends rather than family, it might be a little easier, but this election cycle is bringing out the “real” in folks. In other words, people’s true colors are showing and social media is making it easy to see. I wish that weren’t the case.
In the essence of preserving friendships, I refuse to name names here. Trust me, I know it would make for great chatter if I “spilled the beans,” but I don’t think it’s necessary to make my point and I do value those relationships…right up until the point that they become instrumental in playing a pivotal role in screwing me out of my rights (at which point the gloves will come off publicly). That hasn’t happened yet, I pray it doesn’t, and I’m feverishly working to stop it from happening, but I have made myself very clear: I am approaching this election cycle from a single issue—our right to bear arms. In that sense we have one option. There is no discussion.
Hillary Clinton has made it a focal point of her campaign to run against my right to bear arms and I will use every tool at my disposal to stop her. There is no other social issue that matters to me. None. When it comes to my RKBA, Trump is the only answer at the ballot box in a few weeks. Period.
That apparently isn’t true when it comes to others. I have seen and heard from a few on the “pro-gun” front who are “struggling” with Donald Trump. Social media is full of the conversations. Some are grappling with Trump to the point that they are now illogically putting their gun rights on the line—and therefore my gun rights on the line—with their irrational fear of Trump’s positions on other social issues.
In other words, their liberalism on other issues is clouding their RKBA judgment, and in so doing, endangering the future of our (my) right to bear arms. Frankly, I don’t give a crap about their “concern” for the future of gay marriage. It’s been decided and it ain’t on the ballot box. I don’t care about their concern for the future of Obamacare. It needs to be repealed in my opinion, but we have bigger issues right now. “Global warming?” Please.
Not one of these and many other issues I have seen tossed around mean a hill of beans to me this election cycle. You want to debate those, I couldn’t care less. Those issues can—and will—be debated no matter who wins the White House, but when it comes to my right to keep and bear arms, there is NO debate.
I am astonished by these pro-gun folks, and these are pro-gun folks, who are so frightened of Trump that they are actually defending Hillary Clinton. That, in and of itself, is indefensible—particularly when it comes to her own stated goal of wrecking the Second Amendment and stacking the courts (not just the SCOTUS but dozens of lower court judges) with liberal justices who will see to it that our gun rights are buried for the rest of our lives.
A-ha! Did you catch that? Did you see that? It’s right there in that sentence. When you have a liberal social agenda you might not mind those liberal justices who will see to it that your liberal causes are preserved. Uh huh, that’s it…the liberal underbelly of some of the pro-gun folks is being exposed to the detriment of the RKBA in the sense that they are exposing other issues that are more important to them—or equally important to them—than their gun rights. The truth is being exposed.
My advice to them is to stay silent. Get the political discussion off of social media for the world of single issue voters to see. It would be in their best interest.
None of us who are voting our gun rights and our gun rights only in this election need to know their true sentiments. They would be wise to get out out of the political conversation on social media and not expose themselves. No good can come from it. It’s going to do irreparable harm to them and their future reputations.
Look, we’re not in this position by choice. We’ve been put here. Backed into a corner. Forced to fight. The Second Amendment has been put on the ballot by the un-American, gun-grabbing, freedom-hating, Democratic candidate and her party, not by me and any other pro-gun conservative. If the wrong thing happens in November, those responsible will be held accountable by us when the SHTF. That includes those pro-gun rights folks who have chosen to put their other “social issues” above our gun rights.
The moment that happens, and when the first anti-gun justice takes a seat on the SCOTUS, I will name names.
Mark Walters hosts Armed American Radio on Sunday evenings, and Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense. Both shows are syndicated across the U.S. He also writes for Concealed Carry magazine.
