President Trump’s troubles with an anonymous “whistleblower” are likened to a “red flag” complaint, according to SAF.
The anonymous whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump now being used by Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry is tantamount to a “red flag” action against a gun owner, with the accused being presumed guilty until he or she can prove their innocence, the Second Amendment Foundation said in a news release.
“The lynch mob mentality now being exhibited by Capitol Hill Democrats is the same kind of rush-to-judgment thinking that courts and prosecutors use to rationalize seizing someone’s firearms, while throwing due process under the nearest bus,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Far-left House Democrats, who have wanted to remove the duly-elected president from office since the 2016 election are treating this anonymous complaint like gospel, virtually the same way the legal system treats a so-called ‘red flag’ complaint against a gun owner.”
More details of the controversy seem to surface daily, but at the same time, similar allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden seem to be getting soft glove treatment by the establishment media.
“Completely absent from this political circus act is anything close to skepticism,” Gottlieb stated. “There’s a transcript of a telephone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president which Trump’s detractors read one way and his supporters read another way, and that’s about it. At least the president has the advantage of knowing there’s been a complaint filed, but in the case of a ‘red flag’ allegation, the gun owner typically doesn’t know a thing until police come knocking on the door. In either case, neither the president or an affected gun owner has had the opportunity to face their accuser.
“Many people are convinced that the president’s case amounts to political theatrics,” he continued. “However, there are no theatrics involved when a private citizen’s property is seized. As we saw last year in Maryland, a gun owner was served and something went wrong, and that person was shot dead inside his own front door.”
He was speaking of the case of Gary Willis, an Anne Arundel man who was killed last year when police served an order at 5:17 a.m. one morning.
Willis answered the front door with a pistol in hand, then put it down. Reportedly when he was served with the order, he picked up the handgun again and a struggle ensued during which Willis was fatally shot.
“We’re not sure how this drama will play out against President Trump,” Gottlieb noted, “but we do know that anytime an anonymous complaint can be used to launch something as serious as an impeachment inquiry, by the same people who are pushing ‘red flag’ laws against gun owners, it’s time to seriously re-think both processes.
“If this can happen to a president,” Gottlieb observed, “how long will it be before a ‘red flag’ case can be launched on the basis of an anonymous complaint? Step-by-step, it appears we’re getting closer to the kind of government the Second Amendment was designed to protect us against, and that’s alarming.”
