Since 2008, the National Rifle Association and its CEO, Wayne LaPierre, have been claiming President Barack Obama is going to confiscate everyone’s guns. Other like minds have also spent years insisting that President Obama will institute martial law and cancel the elections, thereby becoming the first American dictator. Well folks, here we are in 2016 and none of this has happened, but without any question the angry and uninformed members of the Tea Party have continued to buy into this pile of fear-mongering tactics.
Now we have the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, who is simply playing into the fears of these minions, encouraging bigotry, and making the minions even angrier.
Trump recently attended the NRA convention and to the cheers of the attendees stated that after being elected that he will get rid of gun-free zones. Considering the fact that the NRA declared its own convention a gun-free zone, I wonder when and if these clueless minions will ever begin to admit to their own hypocrisy.
I question what these people will do when President Obama has left the White House and none of their imagined fears have occurred. Will they have the decency to admit they were wrong? Sadly, the probability of that is quite low since they are too deeply entrenched into the fear-mongering that they long ago blindly goose-stepped their way into.