By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
Speaker Pelosi
Forty-eight days after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a stern warning to impeachment ideologues in the U.S. House that gun owners would remember this effort in 2020, Democrats with a couple of significant defections voted to impeach President Donald Trump.
The vote was along party lines with no Republicans supporting and all but a handful of Democrats supporting. One significant break from the Democrat majority was Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). She was the only House member to vote “Present,” infuriating at least some of her colleagues and providing Gabbard with a “breakout” moment that could benefit her trailing campaign.
Gabbard released a statement, quoted by the New York Post and other publications, in which she explained, “After doing my due diligence in reviewing the 658-page impeachment report, I came to the conclusion that I could not in good conscience vote either yes or no.”
Gabbard subsequently stated, “A ‘no’ vote was unacceptable to me because Donald Trump is absolutely guilty of wrongdoing.
“A ‘yes’ vote was unacceptable to me because impeachment should never come about as a culmination of a highly partisan process,” she said. “This is something that our founders warned us about.”
Immediately following the partisan vote, social media lit up with angry rhetoric from gun owners, among whom were activists reminding them to make sure they are registered to vote, and then actually vote next November. Gun owners are historically lethargic when it comes to voting, which many blame for the situation in Virginia, where anti-gun Democrats have captured the General Assembly in Richmond, and in Washington and Oregon, where Democrats control legislatures in Salem and Olympia.
Here’s what CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said back on Nov. 1:
“The same people pushing impeachment have been staunch allies of the gun prohibition lobby. Anti-gunners have been horrified since Day One of Donald Trump’s presidency that he was actually determined to rein in the activist federal court system by nominating judges who understand there are ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, and that the Second Amendment really means what it says.
“More than eleven years after the landmark 2008 Heller ruling and more than nine years after the 2010 McDonald decision,” he continued, “some courts still act as though neither of those Supreme Court rulings existed. But the president has been filling court vacancies with solid, intelligent jurists who understand the difference between regulated privileges and constitutionally-enumerated, fundamental rights. Capitol Hill anti-gunners and their gun prohibitionist friends can’t stand it, and they’re using the impeachment crusade as a smoke screen to distract the Senate from doing its duty.
“This isn’t about impeaching the president,” Gottlieb stated. “This is about impeaching our Second Amendment rights. I guarantee that American gun owners are going to remember this in 2020.”
In a follow-up, Gottlieb doubled down.
“Whatever else House Democrats are doing,” he said, “it remains clear to us that they want to obstruct the president’s progress on restoring the courts with judges who understand and adhere to the Constitution. Congressman Nadler even admitted, perhaps unintentionally, that his party does not want to wait for next year’s elections, essentially taking power away from voters to decide the direction of the country.
“The president’s court appointments have frustrated and infuriated congressional liberals and their gun control supporters,” Gottlieb asserted. “Imagine what the president could do in one more year, much less over the next five years. His appointments will become his greatest legacy, and make the Second Amendment great again.”
