We reported on Monday how former President Donald Trump’s selection of U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio was a good one as far as the Second Amendment is concerned. Of course, the real way to tell whether that analysis is accurate or not is to see what gun-haters are saying about the selection.
From Everytown for Gun Safety to Moms Demand Action to Giffords to the Brady Campaign, gun-ban groups seem to hate Vance as much as they do Trump. And that’s a good sign for those of us on the freedom side of the Second Amendment debate.
“Gun violence impacts Americans from all political stripes. Donald Trump’s pick for vice president has a record of undermining the gun violence prevention movement,” said head Mom Angela Ferrell-Zabala. “We refuse to accept gun violence as the status quo, and our volunteers are already mobilizing voters and working to elect gun sense champions up and down the ballot.”
Not to be outdone, Everytown President John Feinblatt also had to weigh in on the Vance selection, as well as the failed assassination attempt on Trump.
“Despite Trump and Vance’s failed records on gun safety, the Trump-Vance ticket must take a serious and clear-eyed look at common-sense gun safety measures if any chance of ‘unity’ is possible,” Feinblatt said Everytown. “As Saturday demonstrated, no one—not even the former president—is safe from gun violence. Now is a moment for true reflection and bipartisan action on gun safety that reflects the will of the vast majority of voters.”
Of course, Feinblatt didn’t mention how gun control would have stopped the shooting. It’s just more pie-in-the-sky wish in one hand, shit in the other from those with no real solutions.
Citing Vance’s endorsement by the National Rifle Association during his race for the Senate, the folks at Giffords also were frustrated that Trump had made him his running mate.
“Despite what you heard tonight, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have promised the gun lobby they would repeal President Biden’s popular, bipartisan gun safety law that finally criminalized trafficking guns to violent drug cartels,” said Emma Brown, Giffords executive director. “Last weekend’s horrific assassination attempt demonstrated that no level of security can guarantee anyone’s safety—not even a former president’s—when dangerous people have easy access to weapons of war. Republicans and Democrats alike are concerned about gun violence in this country, yet Donald Trump and JD Vance have consistently put gun industry profits over the safety of American communities. We owe it to future generations to keep this pair out of the White House.”
Even the Brady campaign got in on the Vance bashing. And they continued the trend of blaming the gun not the gunman, insinuating that the response to the Trump assassination attempt should be more restrictive gun control laws.
“Just days after their party leader was shot and hundreds of others across the country killed and injured as a result of guns, Republican leaders failed to offer any solutions to the rising crisis of gun violence,” said Brady President Kris Brown. “Instead, they used the RNC—an event that millions of voters tun into—to mock Trump’s gunshot injury, brag about irresponsible gun ownership and give away AR-15s.”
With increased reporting that President Joe Biden might step out of the presidential race, making it anyone’s guess who the Democrat candidate would be, Brown made it clear that he’s in favor of anyone but the pro-gun candidates on the Republican ticket.
“This week reaffirmed what we’ve known all along: Safety is on the ballot in November,” he said. “Guns are the number one killer of youth in America. Do we want leaders who will stand up for the well-being of our kids and communities? Or do we want leaders who will continue to ignore gun violence—even as more than 300 people are shot every single day in this country?”
Yep, gun-ban groups hate J.D. Vance with a passion. And that fact makes me like him even more.
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