Let me begin this column by thanking you. I have received so many letters, emails and phone calls from members who deeply care about the NRA. There is an excitement rising from the base of this critical association. The members have noticed that the NRA is back. The common thread in the messages is they have been animated by our NRA 2.0 new beginning in this vital political moment, as our freedom is entwined within this election.
We have endured nearly four years of President Joe Biden (D)—and Vice President Kamala Harris (D)—blaming you and me for the actions of violent criminals. We have endured their attacks on law and order, including Harris’ support for defunding the police.
We have endured their weaponization of government agencies against law-abiding citizens’ right to keep and bear arms, their attempts to bankrupt gun manufacturers and stores, their executive actions written to infringe on our freedom, their many attempts to disempower those who can’t afford armed security, their many lies about the nature of our freedom, their endeavor to allow a federal agency to write gun-control laws, and their wanton desires for gun bans and confiscations. We have even endured attempts by elected officials in New York state to bankrupt and dissolve the NRA.
Now we can push back at the voting booth. Now we can toss them out of office. The prospect of four years of a Harris administration actively at war with lawfully armed citizens is too much.
Go to NRAPVF.org, select your state and look over the grades for your candidates. We do this research so you’ll know precisely how the people who want your vote stand on your freedom. We hope you’ll also take the time to talk about these substantive issues at the dinner table and wherever you go. When you have such conversations, don’t hesitate to take out your phone and offer to share links to help voters understand what is at stake in this election.
Show them all the legal analyses, the state specific stories and more at NRA-ILA.org. For breaking news and more in-depth stories and video interviews about these issues, look no further than America’s 1st Freedom. If someone is not a member, but they are listening, send them a link to membership.nra.org. Show them the videos I have done and that many others have done for us explaining the recent changes at the NRA and all we’re fighting for in the nation’s legislatures and courts.
The truth about the vast, law-abiding, gun-owning segment of our society does open peoples’ minds. They soon find out that they have not been told the truth by many mainstream-news outlets and politicians they support. Precisely because the truth about lawful gun ownership changes minds, many in the mainstream media eschew the real stories about armed citizens and, instead, force-feed America narrowly tailored narratives designed to convince people to vote away their Second Amendment-protected freedom.
This is why we need to stand together to stop this all-out war from the Democratic Party’s leaders on this fundamental right. Now, I don’t like calling out one party, as the NRA is not a partisan organization. We are an association with members from every background and category. We don’t rate candidates based on their party affiliation; we rate them based on their votes and what they tell us. At the NRA, we believe that the love of freedom should never be a partisan thing; indeed, the U.S. Bill of Rights is the common ground that used to—and, to some extent, still does—bring us together upon shared values. I only mention a political party here because the official 2024 Democratic Party Platform stands against your individual right to own and carry firearms; indeed, the party’s nominee, Kamala Harris, has supported gun confiscations and every other gun restriction in recent memory.
So, I am saying that the best way to reform a political party that has, at least at the top, turned against your freedom is to vote out the members of that party who treat you as subjects who must disarm before them. It is time to again remind them you are free citizens who have the natural right to defend yourselves. They have opened the borders to criminal gangs and, in many of the places they control, they have created a revolving-door criminal-justice system that allows violent individuals to go right back into our neighborhoods.
That is the path into chaos that Kamala Harris would continue to push us down.
Former President Donald J. Trump (R), in contrast, offers us a brighter future. During the four years he was president, he nominated judges to the federal judiciary, including justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, who honestly apply the U.S. Constitution and our body of laws. That return to stability, to freedom, is badly needed in America today. Indeed, the world needs us to stand resolutely for freedom again.
The critical time is now. We must stand together and vote for our freedom!
