Dream On
An awful lot of gun people seem to be having a little crush lately, and the object of their affection is Libertarian Party presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen. I have to say that while she gives great soundbites, I don't think there is a whole lot of substance underneath the surface. Kind of reminds me of this 90's tune from obscure Canadian band, The Northern Pikes…
Now we can consider all the ins and outs of the Electoral College, and how Dr. Jorgensen doesn't stand a snowballs chance of scoring even a single electoral vote. But if you're politically engaged enough to even know who she is, then you already know her odds of winning. If…after considering all that…you are still considering throwing your vote away by checking the box for her “on principle” come November, then this is the post for you.
It is admittedly easy for a pro-2A voter to swoon when she speaks on her plans for the right to keep and bear arms. Just listen to what she had to say to Tom Gresham on Gun Talk a couple of weeks ago:
Except her plans aren’t really much of a plan. Taken at face value, she is a gun- rights advocate’s dream. Abolish all gun laws passed in the last 100 years? Yes! Abolish the ATF? Count me in! It all sounds good on paper, until you notice that she offers nothing in the way of a strategy to actually accomplish any of this. She even says “if it were up to me I would get rid of every gun law passed in the last 100 years”? The thing is, it isn’t up to her, or any president. If she’s unaware of that, she might not have a solid grasp of what the office actually entails. If she is aware of that, then she’s straight up pandering to the gun vote.
It was the lack of detail in the Gun Talk interview that led me to Jorgensen's website to see if there was any more information on her plans to restore the Second Amendment. Imagine my surprise when I found…absolutely nothing. There is nothing at all on her website which addresses gun rights, even in passing. It is not listed under her “Issues,” or anywhere else on the site that I could find. No mention. At all.
What does this say about her sincerity or seriousness when it comes to the Second Amendment? It tells me that if you're looking to Jo Jorgensen to restore gun freedoms in this country, you can dream on. She stands no chance, and has no plan to achieve what she claims she aspires to even if she did somehow win. And if you somehow cling to the idea that a third-party vote does anything other than help elect Joe Biden, you need to wake up. The addled Democrat’s gun policy embraces every radical anti-gun policy you can imagine; he is no moderate on the issue of the Second Amendment (and neither are any of his potential running mates, who will likely end up as president early in Biden’s first term).
“Buy a shotgun!”
There is no third way. There is no realistic strategy for preserving gun freedom other than a vote for Donald Trump. Keep dreaming that dream, and wake up to a nightmare.
