Stunning Report Should Outrage Trump Supporters - How Did This Happen?
In a concerning trend for advocates of the right to bear arms, a significant number of registered gun owners are not registered to vote.
More than 10 million hunters and gun owners in the United States are not registered to vote, The New York Post reported.
“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,” the report stated.
“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,” it noted.
In an interview with the District of Conservation podcast, it was mentioned that the group faces difficulties registering voters who feel their votes don’t matter.
“My vote doesn’t count, the system is rigged,” said Baker Leavitt, an adviser to the group, citing one of the most common responses they receive.
“If we could convert 2% of all licensed hunters and get them to vote, GOP would win in a landslide,” he told host Gabriella Hoffman.
The group plans to use a strategy similar to that of liberals, who partner with progressive media to promote their message, by collaborating with pro-Second Amendment and hunting groups to spread their message.
“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,” said one of the group’s advisers, Stephen Aaron.
Women for Gun Rights founder Dianna Muller told The Post, “Specifically, hunters, for whatever reason, are totally apathetic. They are not only apathetic but almost averse to having a voice in the conversation.”
“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,” she added.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law banning the possession of a gun by someone who has been the subject of a domestic violence restraining order.
The vote was 8-1 with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting.
“The court holds that when an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment,” SCOTUS Blog reported.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “Since the founding, our Nation’s firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms. As applied to the facts of this case, Section 922(g)(8) fits comfortably within this tradition.”
Discussing the application by the lower courts of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Roberts noted, “Some courts have misunderstood the methodology of our recent Second Amendment cases. These precedents were not meant to suggest a law trapped in amber.”
Otherwise, Roberts explained, the Second Amendment would only protect “muskets and sabers.”
“Why and how the regulation burdens the right are central to this inquiry. For example, if laws at the founding regulated firearm use to address particular problems, that will be a strong indicator that contemporary laws imposing similar restrictions for similar reasons fall within a permissible category of regulations.”
