Republican Platform Betrays Gun Owners

[Miami_JBT]

Republican Platform Betrays Gun Owners

July 11, 2024
By Luis Valdes

When Americans head to the polls this November, many will cast their vote with the intention of defending, protecting, and further expanding the Second Amendment for all. Naturally, these pro-gun voters are overwhelmingly likely to do so by voting Republican. After all, Republicans constantly campaign that they're pro-gun, and they're the only thing standing in the way between the American people and complete disarmament by the Democrats. Unfortunately for those blowhards, actions speak louder than words, and the 2024 Platform just adopted at the RNC is wholly muted in terms of gun rights. This week, when the party released its new platform, gun owners realized the party gutted one of the core tenants that made Republicans, well, Republicans.

For the past eight years, the Republican Party had a detailed plan on restoring and expanding gun rights. It covered a wide range of issues tied to the Second Amendment. Previous platforms discussed the importance of landmark precedents like Heller and McDonald, and they conveyed the seriousness of appointing solidly pro-constitutional judges to the bench. They also laid bare how anti-gun jurisdictions are purposefully ignoring court rulings and how they must be stopped. They advocated for national reciprocity and the abolishment of magazine and firearm bans, including those targeting the AR-15. Heck, that was even classified as a priority! They condemned frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and the harassment of firearms dealers. They even congratulated and promoted the passage of Constitutional carry legislation across the several states.

In summary, past platforms were clear and concise. They weren't pages upon pages of written material, but solid principles that told voters where the Republican Party stood on the Second Amendment. Even more importantly, these platforms set a national directive to state and county level parties, and many acted. Platforms served as a tool that the politically active could use to beat back weak-kneed Republicans at the local and state level Plus, they aided gun owners across the country in advancing pro-gun legislation in their states. Look to the recent success for gun owners in Texas, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia for example. These states finally used their Republican supermajorities to advance permitless carry legislation, after years of delays and outright failure under old Republican leadership.

Gun owners used the national party's platform as a cudgel to politically browbeat those in office in those states. They hammered the point that if state lawmakers were voting against or blocking pro-gun legislation, they were going against the very core foundation of the party's identity. That's the importance of the RNC's platform and the words within it, and why it's so damning that this year's platform nearly fully omitted this fundamental right. Gone is the clear and concise wording. Now, all that exists is a tiny blurb:

"DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS"

To the politically illiterate, such a statement seems good. But the truth of the matter is it isn't. Plenty of anti-gun Democrats have said the same thing. And looking further into the meat and potatoes of the new platform for the RNC, it appears that the Republican Party is adopting the 1990s-era Democrat Party platform. Look at the wording regarding government entitlement programs and healthcare too. Gone is the push for slashing the ponzi scheme that is Social Security or repealing ObamaCare. This sends a loud message to voters: what defined Republicans for close to a decade is now dead. In terms of gun rights, party leaders probably are foolish enough to expect blind loyalty from gun owners. They would be wise to reconsider.

Gun owners need to send a loud message to the RNC.

We are not to be taken for granted.

Our votes aren't automatically theirs.

This platform speaks volumes, and we expect changes.

Again, the current wording and stance of the party today, is reminiscent of Democrats of the 1990s. Democrat politicians claimed to be "pro-gun" by saying they're in favor of Americans owning a deer rifle or a shotgun for duck hunting. But they were against the ownership of AR-15s, suppressors, or standard capacity magazines. Plus, they have always hated the idea of people carrying guns. Democrats would say we have "the right to keep and bear arms" if they weren't icky guns, and we didn't use those firearms to do things that they don't like.

There's been plenty of case studies where Republicans neutered or wholly blocked pro-gun legislation, and this platform gives them cover. Earlier this year, the Republican governor of Wyoming vetoed a repeal of several gun free zones. Last year, Florida lawmakers passed a watered-down permitless carry bill and even blocked a pro-gun amendment that would have repealed a gun-free zone. Gun owners need to be loud and proud and tell the RNC, and the GOP as a whole, that we will not be taken advantage of. We won't accept political table scraps instead of the juicy steak that we deserve.

 

[Hoji]

But are you surprised?

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Ain't the first won't be the last.

 

[benenglish]

Cornyn.

Started to write something but I'm still too angry at that traitor.

 

[oldag]

Cornyn.

Started to write something but I'm still too angry at that traitor.

Don't know what it is going to take to get rid of him in the primaries.

 

[DaBull]

I know Cornyn is a problem, but he was responsible for removing 2A from the R platform?

 

[kbaxter60]

Don't know what it is going to take to get rid of him in the primaries.

Oh, I know! [/Horshak]
A GOP that gives a shit.
Translation: not gonna happen.

 

[benenglish]

I know Cornyn is a problem, but he was responsible for removing 2A from the R platform?

Not to my knowledge.

But without his support, the change to the way a firearms dealer is defined would not have happened. The more you play out in your head the scenarios arising from that, the more you realize it was an attack on gun ownership at a foundational level.

If the Rs are abandoning the 2A, Cornyn is leading the way.

 

[leVieux]

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The REAL problem is lobbyist influence.

We must tell them that they have to choose b/t lobbyist contributions or our votes & support.

They are both supplying criminals with guns from cars CAUSED by gun-free zones and getting innocents killed by those zones. We have tried those zones for long enough, and have an abundant dataset to prove the zones WRONG & DANGEROUS, no matter what the left claims !

Show them this:

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[toddnjoyce]

Not to my knowledge.

But without his support, the change to the way a firearms dealer is defined would not have happened. The more you play out in your head the scenarios arising from that, the more you realize it was an attack on gun ownership at a foundational level.

If the Rs are abandoning the 2A, Cornyn is leading the way.

If I get bored when I get back from this trip, I’ll have to dig into what entity actually wrote BPSCA and figure out Cornyn’s relationship with them.

But I agree, he’s leading the charge for Rs to take up ‘common sense’ gun control. And he wants to be the Senate R party leader next year.

 

[leVieux]

Republican Platform Betrays Gun Owners

 

[leVieux]

If I get bored when I get back from this trip, I’ll have to dig into what entity actually wrote BPSCA and figure out Cornyn’s relationship with them.

But I agree, he’s leading the charge for Rs to take up ‘common sense’ gun control. And he wants to be the Senate R party leader next year.

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Flood social media with the message:

“Cornyn has BETRAYED Texas, he’ll betray the USA if given the leadership
GOP post !”

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[popper]

As I've stated before, getting these bum Pols out of office is difficult as they control the funds. Look at the FJB problem, his committee has the funds. Dem Pols trying to get that from him legally. State and local party Pols need the funds so they keep moneybags in office. SCOTUS did the US no favor by allowing big corporate funding of Pols.

 

[DaBull]

Republican platform has 2AF in it:

DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

What is the Republican 2024 platform? (No, it's not Project 2025)

Republicans' 2024 platform, addressed to the 'Forgotten Men and Women of America,' lays out a list of 20 promises ahead of convention.

www.usatoday.com

 

[leVieux]

Republican platform has 2AF in it:

DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

What is the Republican 2024 platform? (No, it's not Project 2025)

Republicans' 2024 platform, addressed to the 'Forgotten Men and Women of America,' lays out a list of 20 promises ahead of convention.

www.usatoday.com

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Copied from the platform statement: ‘. . . . . THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS“”

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[DaBull]

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Copied from the platform statement: ‘. . . . . THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS“”

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Are you saying this beef is about the platform writing RKBA rather than 2AF? I think Bill of Rights is to broad and just listing the corresponding amendments is too vague. Identifying the specific right for each of the amendments in the platform seems to be the right level of description for the masses.

 

[leVieux]

Are you saying this beef is about the platform writing RKBA rather than 2AF? I think Bill of Rights is to broad and just listing the corresponding amendments is too vague. Identifying the specific right for each of the amendments in the platform seems to be the right level of description for the masses.

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I’m not ‘’saying’’ anything, just copied a quote.

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[RoadRunner]

Republican Platform Betrays Gun Owners

BULLSHIT!

Take your lies somewhere else.

To quote a friend of mine "you need to get back where you were raised up at".

 

[DaBull]

BULLSHIT!

Take your lies somewhere else.

To quote a friend of mine "you need to get back where you were raised up at".

There is the platform in bulletized poster form and then there are the details for each point in the platform. Is OP confusing the platform summary with deleting all the details?

 

[RoadRunner]

There is the platform in bulletized poster form and then there are the details for each point in the platform. Is OP confusing the platform summary with deleting all the details?

I think the OP is a democrap operative spreading lies about the republicons.