Ultimate Fudd Walz Represents Worst of 'Enemies Inside the Gates'

August 12, 2024 By David Codrea

“Viral Harris-Walz camo hats riff on red-state style, draw ire of NRA,” The Washington Post reports. “The official campaign merch … sold out of its initial inventory of 3,000 hats within 30 minutes — with camo-hat sales totaling nearly $1 million Tuesday via its online store.”

It’s not the first time Walz campaigned in a camo hat. Back in 2016, he wore one that had “NRA Endorsed” emblazoned under his name. Despite that, per leftist MoveOn Political Action, “As a gun owner and hunter, Gov. Walz now proudly has a F- NRA rating and supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and Extreme Risk Protection Orders, and he has passed safe storage laws in Minnesota.”

He says he “sleeps just fine.” That he does after betraying people who believed in him tells us much.

“Rep. Tim Walz, Minnesota Democrat, calls the NRA ‘the biggest single obstacle to passing the most basic measures to prevent gun violence in America,’” political correspondent Jim Geraghty wrote. “Funny, he didn’t mind $2,000 of their PAC’s money in 2016, nor their endorsement.”

“Walz donated all of his NRA campaign contributions to organizations supporting veterans,” MoveOn counters. Compared to the non-monetary contributions of an endorsement and notifying members to vote for him via orange card mailers and other publicity that ended up getting him elected, that was well worth the price. Left unsaid is if he also returned contributions from the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Safari Club International PACs.

Also unexplored is what Walz told NRA to get their endorsement. People with sincere, core knowledge-based freedom principles don’t abandon them in favor of emotion-based demands for coercive prohibitions against allies they’d pledged allegiance to. A release of his questionnaire would be instrumental in showing just how much the guy is willing to lie for political power. Noting innumerable A-rated defectors who have betrayed gun owners over the years, it would also help to show how unreliable unreleased questionnaires holding politicians accountable to specifics have proven to be, and how cheesy NRA superlatives help mislead its members – especially when it comes to Democrats, who have yet to produce a candidate who hasn’t ultimately chosen the party first.

Cases in point: We saw former NRA Director and Democrat Rep. John Dingell vote for the Clinton “assault weapon” ban. We saw “A”-rated and endorsed Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak not only endorse Barack Obama (who NRA called “the most anti-gun president in U.S. history”), but also earn Brady Campaign praise “for support for closing gun show loophole.” We saw Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand do a complete about-face and go from being NRA’s darling to a committed gun-grabber. And then there’s NSSF’s 2011 “Legislator of the Year” Jon Tester. And Wayne LaPierre’s “true champion of the Second Amendment” Harry Reid, NRA-PVF endorsee Joe Manchin, and…

Democrat politicians in hunting country who appeal to the sport shooter crowd must vote a certain way to get elected—the Party allows for such regional accommodations so it can increase its power and influence and advance other agenda items. But when you get right down to it, they won’t oppose Harris for president on Second Amendment grounds or Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. They’ll all betray constituents on guns when they think they can get away with it and it suits their purposes.

“Tim’s been a strong supporter of our Second Amendment freedom and our hunting heritage,” then-NRA political director Chris Cox wheedled in a 2010 campaign video, back before he realized he was being publicly pantsed. And there was Walz, declaring, “I’m proud to stand with the NRA to protect the rights of sportsmen and gun owners.”

Except it’s not about sports, is it? And practically every gun-grabber out there parrots the narrative lie before showing everyone their big “but” about “respecting the Second Amendment,” right before launching into the gun prohibitionist citizen disarmament laundry list. The media, of course, with no shortage of “real reporters” either too ignorant and/or agenda-driven to expose that lie, is all on board with amplifying it.

“Military veteran former public school teacher… rural appeal,” says one headline. “Looks to boost ticket in Midwest,” “Everybody’s favorite uncle,” “Unions cheer,” “Kamala calls him ‘coach’,” read others.

The strategy is clear. He’s avuncular and folksy. A big old Teddy bear. He’s a flyover moderate. Trump and MAGA and NRA are extremists. Disregard that he’ll act the part of iron-fisted Marxist presiding over a monopoly of violence if given the chance.

“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” Walz declared on camera. And of course, he and his fellow Democrats showing they respect the First Amendment as much as they do the Second, will be the sole arbiters of classifying what’s acceptable.

“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” he advocated on another. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Except being neighborly is voluntary and doesn’t involve armed enforcers ready to take you hostage or kill you if you don’t obey and surrender what they determine to be your “fair share.” And Walz’s definition of neighborliness included, per a Department of Public Safety Stay-at-Home Hotline recording posted by influential conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley (@DC_Draino) on X, “a ‘snitch’ program during Covid where people report neighbors for violating his authoritarian stay-at-home orders. This is straight out of Fidel Castro’s playbook for anyone that spoke out against his regime.”

Here's the thing – like the line from the Bill Murray movie goes, “It just doesn’t matter.”

Conservatives can say what they want about Walz’s no limits on late-term drawing and quartering, stolen valor allegations, tampons in boys’ school restrooms and imposing state preemption on children’s gender “education” and identity choices, defending the George Floyd sackers and burners as “rightfully angry” (while his wife got off on the smell of burning tires, reminiscent of the “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” quote from Apocalypse Now), and wrapping illegal immigrants in “a blanket of benevolence,” meaning create a “pathway to citizenship” for 30-million + invaders to assure an unchallengeable Democrat majority.

Meanwhile, Walz is out there trying to gin up demand to ban semiautos by claiming, “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war.” Except he was never in a war, and that Second Amendment he claimed to support says “arms.” Never mind, the guy who wants to outlaw misinformation “misspoke,” the Harris campaign “clarifies.” Now give us your guns.

It doesn’t matter what truths are revealed. Democrats could run Charles Manson. Their constituents will not be moved to vote Republican. Their raging women will burn the house down over abortion law being decided by the people of the states, that is, “democratically.”

And the idiot Fudds will continue to equate “sporting use” (a strategy outlined in the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law) with the Second Amendment. Here’s hoping if one walks into a gun store wearing a Walz camo hat the owner tells him to get the hell out.

Meanwhile, a growing number of gun owners, disillusioned by Donald Trump’s actions not matching his rhetoric, are talking about sitting the election out because TINVOWOOT (There Is No Voting Our Way Out of This). I’ve been unsuccessful at motivating such naysayers and can only offer that if apathy and cynicism turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, Democrats will be able to have the Bruen opinion reversed and any citizen disarmament edict they pass upheld.

If the cynics are right and voting ultimately doesn’t work, there will be plenty of opportunities to confront threats. For right now, the immediate existential menace we face is in November. How about using any chair available in a bar fight?

Rejecting the tools at hand is self-defeating and, like suicide, is generally irreversible when there’s an “Oh s***!” instance once the chair is kicked out or the bridge has been leapt from.

About the Author

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. In addition to being a regular featured contributor for Firearms News and AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts onTwitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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