Putting aside that calling themselves “No Label” IS a label, it’s clear, after reading their Policy website, they have already labeled themselves. Calling their Policy website CommonSenseMajority.org is both a message and a label.
If the No Label folks really believed in what they say they are, why wouldn’t that website have the domain NoLabelsPolicies.org or some such thing? No, they didn’t. They can’t even be original with the “Common Sense” bit, and let me buttress that with this question: OK, Conservative activists, what OTHER group uses “common sense” and claims to be in the majority as well?
Yep – the Democrats and FUDDites that are all in for Gun Control. They of the every style and tactic to “infringe” ramped up and thrown against the wall after the SCOTUS Heller and Bruen decisions.
So if the No Labels folks, just on this ONE issue, are willing to void my Constitution Rights because “Common Sense” why should I or other folks concerned about both our Constitutions (US & NH) support them?
Look at “Idea 10,” and I’ll fisk just a couple of statements they make:
10 Americans have a constitutional right to own guns, but society also has a responsibility to keep dangerous weapons away from dangerous people.
- Is it Common Sense NOT to give the full picture when you make a claim like, “In 2021, nearly 49,000 Americans lost their lives to firearms, a level of carnage unparalleled in any other developed country?” Common sense should have said the following but No Labels is misleading to begin with so why not continue with it
- They don’t split out the suicides by guns out – which is the majority of those deaths.
- The majority of the rest is due to crime / gang-bangers
- And wouldn’t it be Common Sense that with a statement like this “Research has shown that more 18 and 19-year-olds are arrested for homicide than people of any other ages“, they’d consider Chicago, Milwaukee, Atlanta, or LA and realize that gang-bangers rear their crime-riddled heads again. And not that they refuse to reference the race stats on gun crimes.
- And this is plain amusing in a very sad way: “But raising the age for gun purchases can save lives.”. Yet, time after time, criminals tell us that they don’t legally buy their firearms – they buy stolen ones. No paperwork or ID needed (and in fact, not wanted).
- And the No Label folks are perfectly fine in setting up the environment for a gun registry by claiming: “enable universal background checks by closing the notorious gun show loophole to ensure all firearms are sold with the same level of scrutiny required for licensed gun dealers.” So much for private property and they show their Leftism by yammering about the “gun show loophole”.
That latter part is just regular private individuals at gun shows selling their own property. No different than if Mike said at a gun range, “Steve, I like your gun; ever consider selling it?” Steve tells Mike the same thing, and the transactions are completed. The only thing that is notorious” is that yet another political party is making use of that canard – and desiring highly to have you believe what they say is God’s honest truth.
So their credibility with me is shot. And no mention of Free Speech which is also contentious now even if Constitutionally protected. There’s a few other things I could pick on (amnesty, price controls but I’m not going to take the time. What I will finish with is their own words that reveal their mindset:
America can’t solve its biggest problems and deliver the results hardworking taxpayers want, need, and deserve unless Democrats and Republicans start working together side by side on bipartisan solutions.
I once made the statement while serving on the NH Senate Commission for Grandfamilies that NONE of the ideas that the other members put up had mine:
Why did no one bring up that Government is part of the problems and we should identify what it should STOP doing?
There is a phrase that makes the rounds that states that the difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties is that the former is ALWAYS for more and bigger Government to “solve problems” while Republicans are only for a bit lesser increases (e.g., Jeb Bradley and Chuck Morse bringing Obamacare into State Law) but that Rs can “manage it better.”
Nowhere on their Policy website did I see a single part that called for lesser Government – only more?
If you really examine their policies, I think you’d agree that this is “stealthy Democrat” speak.
Ignore them but hope that IF they put up a Presidential candidate, it’s a Democrat like Joe Manchin – he’d suck votes away from Biden. But that’s about all the good they are. No Labels means no attachments to Principles.
