MILLIONS OF AMERICA’S GUN OWNERS ARE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE. WHY?

The most important U.S. Presidential Election since the founding of our Republic is just a few months away. This isn’t an exaggeration. It is a fact.

The outcome of this Election will determine whether we Americans secure our Nation as a Free Constitutional Republic as the Framers crafted it, or we continue down the path Joe Biden and those behind the scenes have set for us: A Rancid Socialist Dictatorship ruled by Marxist Cultists and Neoliberal Globalist Technocrats.

Some Americans delight at the prospect of a United States reduced to subservience—a mere cog residing within a vast Collectivist Empire, encompassing the world, governed by the Dogmas of “DEI,” “CRT,” and Identity Politics. Many other Americans seem oblivious to the true horror unfolding before them and demonstrate disinterest if you were to point out what is in store for them and for the rest of us who do care. These people have likely not registered to vote, and if they had done so, they don’t plan to vote in the upcoming Presidential election anyway.

As for those falling into this last category, no rational person would expect to find people who cherish their fundamental, unalienable rights (especially the right of the people to keep and bear arms) to forego voting in an election where one Party has made patently clear an intention to ban firearms in common use.

Yet, millions of America’s gun owners are not registered to vote in the upcoming election.

This is surprising, shocking, and altogether unacceptable. Voting is a Sacred Right. It is also a tremendously important responsibility.

The Arbalest Quarrel looked into the failure of millions of gun owners to register to vote. We learned that Ten Million American gun owners have not registered to vote in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

This is no small number and can have a decisive impact on the outcome of Federal Elections.

In a recent article published on July 9, 2024, the New York Post had this to say,

More than 10 million hunters and gun owners are not registered to vote in America, according to a new grassroots voter-registration group firing warning shots at the GOP Vote4America data show that if Republicans don’t address political apathy among their gun-owning base in key swing states, they’ll have far fewer voters in their arsenal to score victories this November.

Vote4America data show that if Republicans don’t address political apathy among their gun-owning base in key swing states, they’ll have far fewer voters in their arsenal to score victories this November.

A breakdown of the data reveals a major shortfall in voter registration among gun owners in the states that will decide the 2024 election: 515,277 in Pennsylvania and around 370,000 each in Michigan and North Carolina. Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia all have more than half a million hunters and gun owners unregistered, and Arizona has the smallest shortfall at 133,000. 

Audiences have not always responded positively to Vote4America’s voter-registration efforts. Adviser to the group Baker Leavitt told District of Conservation podcast host Gabriella Hoffman in a recent appearance that the most common response in its outreach to gun owners is the sentiment “My vote doesn’t count, the system is rigged.”

Despite the pessimism, even marginal wins could pay big dividends come November. “​​If we could convert 2% of all licensed hunters and get them to vote, GOP would win in a landslide,” Leavitt told Hoffman. 

Hoffman noted that “a lot of hunters and gun owners, they’re very animated in social media, they have a lot of opinions, but they don’t go out to vote. They talk a great deal, often about preserving your rights, doing this — hunting — but a lot of people don’t follow through with voting.”

Democratic politicians have leaned on influencers in recent years — and before that Hollywood celebrities — to push liberal messaging to their built-in audiences of loyal followers.

Vote4America is hoping to tap into that strategy on the conservative side by partnering with more niche influencers in the hunting, pro-Second Amendment, first-responder and veteran communities.

Stephen Aaron, another of the group’s advisers, he says when it comes to winning over disengaged gun owners, the mission is clear and simple.

“Our goal is to make sure these people know that voting matters. The issues people worry about — attacks on personal freedoms, our crime problem, skyrocketing inflation — are all impacted by the people we put in office. This is an effort to help voters connect the issues impacting their daily life to decisions made by elected officials so people understand their vote really does matter and they engage. It’s time to make America feel like home again. . . .”

Competitive shooting champion and Women for Gun Rights founder Dianna Muller says she’s noticed that “specifically, hunters, for whatever reason, are totally apathetic. They are not only apathetic but almost averse to having a voice in the conversation.”

Asked why she believes that’s the case, Muller told The Post: “It’s become such a politically charged issue, like religion and politics, you don’t talk about it at the dinner table. You can throw guns in there, too. Guns and religion are taboo.

See also the article in “Shooting News Weekly” about this failure to vote.

Well, we know that Joe Biden isn’t averse to talking about his intention to ban millions of firearms in common use.

In an article published in the “Independent,”

“President Joe Biden called for AR-15 guns, the type used in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, to be banned during a fired-up NAACP National Convention speech.

‘It’s time to outlaw them. I did it once, and I will do it again’, Biden said during his speech on Tuesday (16 July).

In 1994, Congress passed the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, prohibiting certain semi-automatic assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices. It expired in 2004.”

There is something decidedly perverse of Joe Biden to make a pretense of caring about Donald Trump’s health and well-being.

Plainly, Biden used the assassination attempt as a fortuitous happenstance upon which to make another pitch for banning civilian possession of millions of firearms in common use—a principal policy objective of the Biden Administration and of Progressives and others that despise our Bill of Rights.

And Biden’s speech to the NAACP and, by extension, to the Nation at large, as covered by the Press, was meant to serve  another purpose.

By directing attention to guns, Biden likely hoped to mask the utter failure of the Secret Service, under the leadership of the inept Director, Kimberly Cheatle, a Biden appointee, to protect Donald Trump.

Trump survived the assassination attempt only due to Divine Intervention, and not to any act of the Secret Service, before the fact, to neutralize the target. After all, the shooter got off several shots, killing one Rally Attendee, seriously injuring two others, and hitting Trump too, (within a few millimeters of killing him), before the Secret Service Counter Assault Team (CAT) got off a shot, killing the shooter.

Attention properly belongs on the Secret Service, not on this or that firearm the shooter used.

Had the shooter used a high-end, long range deer rifle, with expensive scope, would Biden have suggested banning deer rifles, too? Surely, his desire to ban civilian ownership and possession of firearms is extraordinarily expansive. Another term in Office, consolidating power further, will allow for that.

Nothing comes out of the maw of the Joe Biden, but anger and exasperation, vitriol and hatred—and all directed to those things that make us quintessentially Americans, including our fundamental, unalienable, Eternal Rights and Liberties; the belief in the sanctity and inviolability of the individual; our Nation’s Christian heritage; and concomitant Judeo-Christian ethical system instilled in us by the omnipotent, omniscient, omni-present, supernally benevolent, and morally perfect Divine Creator.

The perennially angry and bitter Joe Biden, and the caustic, stubborn, closed-minded supporters continue to ravage our Country through their every word and action.

They claim and maintain the Country must be destroyed because there is nothing worth salvaging. They loathe every aspect and institution of our Country, and intend to replace the entirety of it with an alien political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological framework the obverse of a truly Free Democratic Republic that the Founders’ of our Nation constructed for us, grounded on the tenets of Individualism.

Contrary to the gloomy rhetoric of Biden and the DNC, there is in Trump’s speeches, always a message of hope.

And it involves no effort on the part of Americans’ to make a bright future for our Country and the Citizenry, a Reality.

Trump makes clear that he cannot make America great again if he isn’t in Office.

Americans who cherish their fundamental Rights, especially the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms to prevent Tyranny MUST VOTE.

Trump says,

We're gonna turn our country around. We're going to quite simply make America great again. But one thing I'll say, and I say it as friends, we've gotta get gun owners to vote, because you know what, I don't know what it is, perhaps it's a form of rebellion, because you're rebellious people, aren't you? But — gun owners don't vote. . . . What is that all about? I've heard that, I heard it a few weeks ago. That if the gun owners voted, we would swamp them at levels that nobody's ever seen before. So, I think you're a rebellious bunch. But let's be rebellious and vote this time, okay? If you go out and vote, I understand exactly why you don't. But we have to win this election, it's the most important election in the history of our country.

The aforementioned comes from Portions of Trump’s Speech to NRA, delivered on May 18, 2024, as obtained from the website “Roll Call.”

See Trump’s Full Speech to NRA on CSPAN.

Trump’s mild admonishment to Gun owners is well-taken.

Sure, a lot of us Americans who cherish our most sacred right to armed self-defense, do vote and have voted for Trump in the last two elections and will do so again in the upcoming election.

Among those who support Biden and his Administration’s policy aims, are very powerful ruthless interests that hope those Americans who support Trump, will not trouble themselves to register to vote and to cast a vote in the upcoming Election. If they do, there will be a huge wave in support of Trump that will essentially guarantee his election as U.S. President in 2024.

That means our Country will remain a sovereign, independent Nation and Free Constitutional Republic.

The United States will then have the strength of will to repel any attempt to weaken its independence and sovereignty.

Nothing concerns the world empire builders more than the United States which has the strength of will to effectively resist those evil forces that would thrust our Nation into a world empire, requiring us to forsake our Sovereignty and Independence and our Bill of Rights.

A freedom-loving people, fiercely independent, obdurately resistant to Tyranny, insistent on bearing arms to maintain its sovereignty over Government and over attempts to subjugate them, will not meekly, surrender their arms.

We assume most Americans, certainly those who cherish their Fundamental Unalienable Rights, would agree with this sentiment.

A 2021 National Firearms Survey estimated that 81.4 million Americans owned firearms. See the article in “American Gun Facts.” Two years later that number increased. “Estimates show that 82,880,000 people own at least one firearm in 2023.” See the article in “Ammo.com.”  

According to the Pew Research Center,

“Roughly three-quarters of Americans who currently own a gun (73%) say they can’t see themselves ever not owning one, and this is the case among majorities of gun owners across demographic groups.

Perhaps not surprisingly, those who see owning a gun as central to their overall identity are particularly committed to gun ownership. For example, 89% of gun owners who see owning a gun as very or somewhat important to their overall identity say they can’t see themselves ever not owning a gun, compared with 58% of those who say owning a gun is not too important or not at all important their sense of identity.

And while 85% of gun owners who say the right to own guns is essential to their sense of freedom say they can’t see themselves ever not owning a gun at some point, 41% of those who don’t see the right to own guns as essential say the same.”

The perennially angry and bitter Joe Biden, and his caustic, stubborn, closed-minded supporters continue to ravage our Country through their every word and action.

They claim and maintain the Country must be destroyed because there is nothing in it worth salvaging.

They loathe every aspect and institution of our Country and intend to replace the entirety of it with an alien political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological framework the obverse of a truly Free Democratic Republic that the Founders’ of our Nation constructed for us, grounded on the tenets of Individualism.

Contrary to the gloomy rhetoric of Biden’s speeches, reflective of the insufferable temperament of his supporters, there is, in Trump’s speeches, always a message of hope.

And it involves no effort on the part of Americans to make a bright future for our Country and the Citizenry, a Reality.

Americans who cherish their fundamental Rights, especially the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms to prevent Tyranny MUST VOTE, but why do so many Americans resist? What explains this phenomenon?

But what accounts for the apathy among so many Americans who love their Country and who cherish their sacred rights but who do not vote?

If one is reluctant to let his views be heard around the family kitchen table or among his co-workers at the office, they don’t need to speak their mind. What does that have to do with refraining from voting?

When a person casts his ballot, that is a private affair. Nothing needs to be said to anyone. And voting is such an easy thing to do. There is no suffering in the act of casting one’s vote.

No other American has suffered the kinds of incessant vicious, vile assaults as Donald Trump. He has accepted this because he truly loves his Country. That cannot be reasonably denied. For the four years he served his Country as President, despite the barbs, the sabotage, the scathing virulence—and for the four years since—none of that scathing attack has stopped. His enemies are many and powerful and ruthless and they constantly craft new ways and refine old ways to torment Trump.

The assassination attempt is emblematic of the desperation and fatigue that has set in for these enemies of Trump (and, by extension, of “MAGA” Americans) and of a Nation that refuses to kowtow to the international world order.

The only thing that would stop Trump—that those who hate and fear his formidable fortitude, stamina, desire, and ability to truly Make America Great Again, have come to understand—would be a bullet to the head. That almost happened.

Only Divine Intervention prevented that. If the assassin had succeeded, our Country, a Free Constitutional Republic would have died at that moment, along with him.

But, fortunately, for us, Trump survived. He will not stand down, despite the toll on both him and his family: financially, personally, professionally, and emotionally.

Every American must vote. Trump has given and continues to give so much, including risking his very life for his Country and his fellow Countrymen. He asks so little from each of us in return.

And it is for our benefit and our Country, after all, that America’s gun owners register to vote if they haven’t already done so, and that all of us cast our vote for Trump so that he can serve our Country and us.

Every American should vote with the idea that his vote determines the outcome of the Election. That vote for Trump—1 + 1 + 1 +1 +1. . . = 100 million—will be part of a wave that no amount of illegal and unethical machinating by the ruthless forces that would dare to crush Trump, our Country, and our People, can withstand.

It is YOUR VOTE that will make the difference! And it is such an easy thing to do. You have no good excuse for not doing so.

Register as a Republican if you have not already done so. There isn’t much time left to do so. And, make sure that you do cast your vote in the upcoming Election and that you cast it for Donald Trump.

Our Republic is on the Line. This is our Last Chance, our Final Battle.

Do your small but vital part to Make America Great Again, and to Keep America Great for decades and centuries to come.

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