Don\u2019t you hate it when the candidate \u201con your side\u201d acts as if he\u2019s trying to throw the fight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I voted for Donald Trump and urged others to do the same in 2016 and 2020, and as soon as early voting opens in my state will vote for him again in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not because he\u2019s my ideal candidate, but because he\u2019s the one I find least objectionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I vote based on the issue I\u2019m most familiar with. Not a single issue voter, so much as a litmus test voter. For me, that issue is gun owners\u2019 civil rights. None of us has time to gain a deep knowledge of everything a President has to deal with \u2013 including the candidates themselves, which is why I want one who\u2019s going to establish a solid think tank for every such issue \u2013 but the issue we know is how we judge a candidate\u2019s ability to assess issues and handle them fairly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only short months after crushingly defeating President Joe Biden in a debate in which the latter couldn\u2019t hold a coherent policy thought and babbled about his golf game, I see the guy on my side dancing to music on camera for more than half an hour and babbling about a dead golfer\u2019s genitalia. Good Lord\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, I have to put policy over personality. I have to look at what they\u2019ve done, not what they say they\u2019ll do. Ever since he ran for the highest office in 2016, Trump has been reasonably solidly committed to gun owners\u2019 civil rights, and more important, knows how important we gun people are to any victory he hopes to achieve. His opponent has in the past worked to ban possession of handguns, tacitly approved authorities entering homes without warrants to check on whether they\u2019re keeping their guns secure to her satisfaction, and after promising not to take our guns says in virtually the same breath that she would happily order buybacks, which are simply mandatory confiscation of firearms with some degree of financial compensation. She has more flip-flops than a shoe store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next President is likely to have the opportunity to replace two or even three of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, likely replacing the two strongest supporters of the Second Amendment on that Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please don\u2019t abstain from voting or waste your vote on an unelectable third party candidate because you don\u2019t care for either mainstream candidate. If the basic human right of self-defense is important to you for yourself, your descendants and everyone you care about, I urge you to vote for Donald Trump, even if you have to grimace and hold your nose as you do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know I\u2019m largely preaching to the choir here, but please, do all in your power to convince everyone you know to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s profoundly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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