By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
With former President Donald Trump retaining his double-digit lead in the Republican presidential primary race, Democrats and anti-gunners are indicating fear he may return to the Oval Office, and email blasts seeking contributions over the weekend confirm it.
The Giffords gun control group was first out of the gate Saturday with an alarming statistic: “Even though Donald Trump pledged to ‘make America great again,’ gun homicides spiked 34 percent during his term.”
The message accused Trump of not having “the backbone to solve our nation’s gun violence crisis” and for “cozying up to the gun lobby” during his term. Trump filled some 300 federal court vacancies during his time in office, including three critical nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
Giffords then asks for a contribution “to help us in our work to reelect” Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Sunday’s blast came from the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC), with a declaration that the former president “just led a MASSIVE right-wing rally in Iowa where he’s trying to build momentum for 2024!”
The message feverishly exclaims, “Trump continues to hurl insults and attacks against President Biden and Democrats — and despite multiple criminal indictments, polls show Trump is still the GOP frontrunner with less than 50 days until the Iowa caucuses!
“Each rally brings Trump closer to taking back the White House, and we CAN’T let that happen,” the DSCC announcement continues. “That’s why we’ve launched an urgent petition to PROVE that Democrats like you reject Trump, but time is running out and we’re MISSING your response!”
Trump is the only former president who habitually made references to protecting the Second Amendment during his speeches and rally appearances around the country. Biden, on the other hand, repeatedly refers to gun control and the need to ban certain firearms and magazines.
A recent article from the Heritage Foundation adds perspective to the gun control debate. Headlined “The Blue City Murder Problem,” the article notes up front that “some on the Left have tried to advance their arguments by using facts about state murder rates that, while technically true, are at best meaningless when taken out of context and at worst misleading and downright dangerous when used as the basis for public policy decisions.” It was authored by Charles Stimson, Zack Smith and Kevin Dayaratna.
The story mentioned 30 major cities with the highest homicide rates as of June 2022, and noted how 27 of them had one striking similarity: They all had Democrat mayors, and several have Democrat prosecutors.
With 2024 looming, along with the primary season, the political landscape is quickly becoming a gun control minefield, and the gun control crowd—with their Democratic allies in Congress—will be working overtime to prevent Trump, or any other Republican, from getting back in the White House in 2025, where that person will be able to appoint more conservative judges and perhaps Supreme Court justices.
