One of the conservative movement's most effective Second Amendment advocates — Dana Loesch — used her time on the main stage at the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit to demolish ongoing attempts by Washington Democrats to push reactionary gun control measures through the halls of Congress.
A former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and current nationally syndicated radio host, Loesch has been a leading voice for the Second Amendment for over a decade. She has an outstanding track record of defending law-abiding gun owners, both when it has been easy and when it's been hard.
Last night she took the main stage in the ballroom of the Gaylord Texan, outside of her hometown of Dallas, in front of over 2,500 young women to once again refute the radical gun control proposals offered by Democrats hours before on Capitol Hill and repeated by President Biden in a rare primetime address.
Loesch kicked off her speech by stating that there is a difference between preparation and paranoia, alluding to the fact current proposals offered up by the radical left are a result of the latter.
During yesterday's emergency markup of the Protecting Our Kids Act, Democrats made an effort to once again restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners in the wake of national tragedies committed by criminals.
The bill they are currently trying to push through is an omnibus, comprised of eight bills that would do a number of things. These include raising the age of purchasing semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21, creating so-called “red flag laws” and enacting universal background checks on firearms purchases.
Loesch's opposition to seeing Congress raise the age of purchasing firearms is personal. As a mother to her college-age son, she said she remembered the day he had to sign a military draft card after he turned 18. Her response to the proposal was as concise as it was moving:
“If my son can sign a draft card to be in the military, he can own a gun.”
Loesch also fact-checked the research cited by House Judiciary Chairman, New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, who suggested that women owning firearms does not make them safer.
She found that Arthur Kellermann inflated the numbers in his 1993 study, Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home because he counted not only cases in which women had firearms present in their homes but all instances of deaths by homicide in his results.
In reference to last month's school shooting in Uvalde, Loesch said she “shouldn't have to pay the penalty” for “garbage parenting,” if some “deadbeat mom didn't parent her kid.”
At the end of her speech, Loesch left the young women in the audience with the following message.
“You are going to be gaslit. You are going to be shamed for wanting to protect yourself and your family. Those opinions don't matter.“
Indeed — as Loesch demonstrates every day as a strong, independent woman — they don't.
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America was sold down the river when the 18th-century founding fathers replaced Biblical responsibilities (based upon the moral law of God) for Enlightenment rights, and nothing demonstrates it better than the Second Amendment.
Think about it: The Amendment WITH the wording “shall not be infringed” is the MOST infringed, licensed, and limited Amendment of the entire twenty seven. Furthermore, a future generation of our posterity is likely to see the Second Amendment whittled away entirely or repealed altogether. This is inherent nature and danger of optional Enlightenment rights versus non-optional Biblical responsibilities, such as the following:
“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword [or today’s equivalent] in their hand … this honor have all his saints. Praise ye Yah.” (Psalm 149:6-9)
“But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house [beginning with spiritual and physical protection], he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
Which is more potent: 1) An optional right, or 2) A non-optional responsibility?
Which is more likely to be infringed, licensed, and ultimately abolished altogether?
Which did the pre-Second Amendment Americans look to for their authority to bear arms, with little or nor infringement?
For more on the impotent Second Amendment, listen to “The Second Amendment: A Knife in a Gunfight,” delivered at the Springfield, Missouri Firearms and Freedom Symposium, at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Go to our Video page and scroll down to title.
At this same location, you will also find a radio interview Larry Pratt (Executive Director of Gun Owners of America) conducted with me on this same subject. I think you’ll find Mr. Pratt’s remarks especially interesting. Go to our Audio Messages page and scroll down to T 952.
See also online Chapter 12 “Amendment 2: Constitutional vs. Biblical Self-Defense” of “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.” Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 12.
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