Imagine you’re a young guy who wants to get into law enforcement. But not just any kind of law enforcement. Nobody thinks traffic cops are cool. So you go to college, study hard, get that degree, and then apply for a job with the United States Secret Service. Then you get the job that not only employs some of the world’s coolest bodyguards, but also investigates complex financial crimes and counterfeiting. Brains and brawn.
You end up going for the dignitary protection side and prove yourself on the job. For years. Unlike some donut-chomping revenue collector, you’re the best at what you do. You know what to look for, how to spot signs of aggression or violent intent in a crowd. You understand how to spot a concealed weapon. You also have to show greater than average proficiency with a number of firearms, including not only a pistol and a patrol rifle, but also more esoteric loadouts like a concealable P90 personal defense weapon.
After proving that you’re one of the best, you end up on the detail for not only the Vice President, but the person who’s now a presidential candidate. If you keep up the good work, you might end up eventually protecting the president of the United States.
That’s the top job almost everyone looks up to. It’s a job movies get made about. You’re riding high.
But then, one day you find yourself in the background for this:
KAMALA: "Let’s have an assault weapons ban… An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society."
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 29, 2022
You — the expert, competent guy who’s worked hard to get as far as you have — find yourself standing there with a PDW hidden under an eighth of an inch of gabardine. It’s not an assault rifle, or whatever the protectee claims an “assault weapon” is, now she says she wants to ban it. Because this is a civil society. Or something.
Was your weapon built or sold to the government for the purpose of slaughtering large numbers of innocents? No. It’s there to protect representative government. You might even say it’s helping to protect democracy. Instead of being able to gun her down, people who would skip the democratic process will have to deal with you first. You’re there to protect her. If people who disagree are going to keep her out of office, they’ll have to go do it peacefully at the ballot box.
In other words, your hidden machine gun isn’t there for wanton killing or to impose the will of a tyrant. It’s there to keep the peace and protect the constitutional process. To counter political violence and ensure we remain a civil society.
Then you realize people know you’re heavily armed. The guy in front of you, nodding in agreement? His suit’s buttoned in the front. He’s not going to be able to do a thing if someone gets violent. The lady in the pantsuit who’s running her mouth? Same thing. She’s good at yammering, but she’s worthless in a fight.
You hope the people who will watch the video of her remarks later will see the irony of calling the very weapon that’s protecting her a “weapon of war” and claiming it’s only good for taking innocent lives. And as you stand there, ready to sweep that cover garment aside if the need should arise, you have trouble keeping a straight face.
If you’re the guy in the background, or one like him, we feel for you, man. Few of us would be able to sit there and maintain that level of composure in the face of such profound irony and ignorance. But, you’re a professional who’s trained to do the job. We get it and respect you for it. Hopefully you end up protecting a better class of person in the future.
“KAMALA: ‘Let’s have an assault weapons ban… An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.’ ”
She wants to ban the U.S. government, U.S. military, and police departments firearms?
That must be it, because we law abiding civilians don’t have ‘assault weapons’ and only the military and police departments and the U.S. government has “assault weapons”.
What we law abiding civilians have are semi-auto or single shot firearms, they are not ‘assault weapons’.
What the government, military, and police departments have are ‘assault weapons’ in the truest and factual and actual sense. Heck, even the very possession by the government, military, and police departments makes their firearms ‘assault weapons’ that are factually and actually ‘weapons of war’ in the truest sense. For these ‘entities’ are free to use them offensively under the auspices of ‘color of law’ with actually very little true accountability due to ‘government’ granting its self what is at its basis an unconstitutional ‘qualified immunity’ for its acts of ‘violence’, horror, aggression’s tyrants like to impose on citizens, like Biden and Harris have showered upon the American people by implying and stating they would use their ‘assault weapon’ ‘weapons of war’ against American citizens (and have actually used them to threaten and murder innocent people through their various agencies).
So yeah Harris, you go ahead and ban the U.S. government, U.S. military, and police departments firearms, if you do we would all be much safer from the likes of tyrants like Biden and Harris.
Dude, you are confusing assault weapon with assault rifles. Please don’t confuse the banners further. They already can’t decipher the difference between semi auto and “full semi auto”.
I didn’t confuse anything. I used the same wording she did.
You might even say it’s helping to protect democracy.
Nah. They use weapons to protect and project their power.
They aren’t protecting democracy when they flex on the little people who happen to be politically opposed to them. They aren’t protecting democracy when they enable global conflict. It’s merely the excuse.
No one, NO one, is in favor of banning guns. When a liberal says you don’t need a gun they mean you, stupid. If kneepads meant herself she would have used the pronoun I.
What is this world going into we have the 2nd amendment they need to reread it .
I hope they do as good a job for Kamala as they did for Trump in Pennsylvania.
Speaking of which — Trump just announced that he is going back to Butler PA to hold another rally.
Secret Service: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat — err, perimeter.”
Who is running the Shit Show …er I mean the Secret Service now anyway?
What reds my ass other than a fire about 3 feet high is that these people merely won a popularity contest and in so doing they suddenly, over night, become all knowing relative to what is best for “we the people”. And all the while insult “we the people” with their rhetoric that implies that “we the people” are too ignorant to know right from wrong.
When someone proves to me they know more about a subject then I do, I listen to what they say on that subject.
Our politicians have only proven to me they know way more then I do about lying, cheating, and theft.