Steve MacDonald

Beleive it or not, for the better part of twenty-plus years the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing regulations with the force of law without having to present any data publicly. Imposing rules, limiting individuals and job creators, driving up the cost of everything, without having to prove the thesis upon which these restrictions are based. The only Environment they’ve been protecting is their own. That’s the one they created that gives them unlimited power.

But not anymore.

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Parkland is moving Democrat legislators and the media, but as I pointed out here yesterday, I think progressive-ghetto tunnel-vision has catalyzed the inside of a very small bubble.

I think the left is really overreaching on Parkland and the media is making them arrogant. They are going to keep at it the way the kept at it until Hillary lost. It feels like that sort of deep dive into a shallow pool.

The 2016 Election map shows Democrats as a fringe party, but thanks to a very biased media they appear more significant. That has advantages. They can punch above their weight and do. It also misleads them into thinking the nation is with them just because they all agree with each other. But some crucial reports suggest this is not the case.

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Just before 8:30 this morning I let loose on the left’s declaration of war against the second amendment. Knowing that this doesn’t scare nearly as many people as it should, I added what seemed to me to be a natural extension of this assault by bringing up the left’s war on the first amendment. And at the end, I closed the loop.

For years Democrats have suggested gun bans, but now former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says we need to repeal the second amendment. Do you support that? If not, how far are you willing to go and what assurances after the failures in Parkland can you give your constituents about their safety?

This afternoon, the State GOP issued a press release and a video asking the entire Democrat Congressional Delegation, Democrats all, “to denounce recent calls to repeal the Second Amendment.”

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As reported last week the Vermont legislature is fast-tracking gun ban legislation (s.55) that will do absolutely nothing to stop the crimes for which they claim it is being enacted.

An amended version of the Senate Bill passed the Vermont House this week and goes back to the Senate for review, reconciliation, more press, speeches, and assorted acts of tyranny a govrment engages in before denying legal citizens their natural rights.

There are plenty of supporters because the media has made this the biggest thing since problems were invented, ignoring the failures of government that caused the catalyst for these supposed reforms, while championing those that failed.

Nothing new there. But you don’t see this every day, and never in New Hampshire, at least not from the political NH Police Chiefs Association.

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After Parkland, Democrats feel like they can come out of the closet on gun control. Inside their bubble, the outside world changed. The complete and utter failure of every mechanism they promised would protect us without a right to self-defense failed. Their response to this failure is to claw at your rights, and openly demand a repeal of the second amendment. A wholesale denial of the right to self-defense followed by a seizure by force of law of firearms from the law-abiding public.

Don’t act surprised. That was always the goal. Those of you who didn’t believe it or denied it (called us crazy) must ask why you ever believed them when they said it was not? Then ask yourself, how serious are the same people when they say (and they do say this openly now) that they oppose the right to free speech?

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The heroine, Fentanyl, Carfentanyl problem, crisis, war, however you would like to frame it, has, for our purposes, three positions. First, it is national security crisis. Second, it is a domestic enforcement crisis. And third, it is the addiction-treatment-recovery crisis.

Democrats oppose the first two and demand money for the third.

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Democrats are using underage mules to advance their disarmament agenda which will only get more kids killed but then, that’s all any Democrat gun-ban policy does. Get people killed. Or mugged, assaulted, raped, or robbed.

The only “safety” in progressive public safety policy is their safety from regular Americans when those policies fail.

We know they fail. Ninety-Eight percent of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones, and the left’s answer is to make more of them by passing laws no criminal will ever follow. That’s why you need deterrence. Public knowledge that force can and will be met with force immediately and until the threat is neutralized.

Israel took the defense of their school kids seriously 40-years ago and it worked. So instead of marching children out to regurgitate political rhetoric that will result in more blood and bodies, American policymakers should stop trying to infringe on our constitutional rights and take notes.

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I’m not picking sides in CD-1 (on the Republican side), but the race is still interesting. When Levi Sanders hinted at and then promptly entered that race a day later as a Democrat I think he did so with the number one seed. He’s the guy to beat. And he’s just like Dad, or maybe worse – which to Democrats means better.

Is that a boon to the Republican nominee; because every Democrat in the CD-1 field will have to crawl over each other to get to the left of Levi, a nearly impossible task, not that they aren’t already trying.

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