Gun control activists have been doing their worst again in recent weeks, demonizing law-abiding gun owners and the National Rifle Association as they seek to undermine and infringe upon the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms.

As such, they are also pushing yet another legislative attempt to ban “assault weapons,” a made-up term that essentially constitutes any sort of firearm that looks like something the military would use, but in actuality is a standard semi-automatic firearm with certain cosmetic features, of which there are millions upon millions in common use.

Unfortunately for them, their fear and loathing when it comes to firearms runs so deep that they can’t even keep straight what kinds of weapons they claim they do and don’t want to ban — likely because they don’t even know the basics of firearms and how they operate in the first place.

Case in point is the following tweet from Shannon Watts, leader of the Bloomberg-backed Moms Demand Action gun control advocacy group, who posted a picture of a “scary” looking rifle and fretted that an 18-year-old adult could purchase one at a sporting goods store, according to The Daily Wire.

You can buy this at @SportsmansWH if you’re 18. Tell them #NoGunUntil21 pic.twitter.com/85o34rbbD5

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 2, 2018

In the eyes of Watts and her small but vocal coterie of liberal moms demanding gun bans, the above rifle should be classified as an “assault weapon” and ripped from the hands of law-abiding citizens, largely because of its black “tactical” appearance that resembles a military-issue firearm.

But in reality, the gun Watts is apparently so fearful of is nothing more than a bolt-action .22 long rifle caliber firearm, the sort of firearm that legions of gun owners learned to shoot with and grew up around as children. Deadly with a well-placed shot, yes, but still barely a step above a BB gun, and largely suitable for target practice or hunting small game like rabbits and gophers.

Don’t look now Shannon Watts but your ignorance is showing. You literally picked the least dangerous rifle commonly used by adolescents for target practice, to demonstrate that it’s too dangerous for adults, only because it’s “SCARY” looking.

— David Seel? (@DavidSeel7) March 11, 2018

That rifle isn’t even one of the “new” “fully semi-automatic” rifles which reloads itself after each trigger pull that ignorant liberals are now clamoring about (they’ve been in existence for more than a century), but one that must be manually operated to eject the shell of a spent round prior to chambering a new round after each shot.

In other words, this rifle is about as far from an actual “assault rifle” — one capable of fully automatic fire on a single trigger pull — as can be, which, by the way, were already heavily regulated for civilian ownership by the National Firearms Act of 1934.

As Bearing Arms pointed out, Watts received quite an education on this rifle in the comments on her post — not that she will actually learn anything, because she apparently blocks and ignores anyone who doesn’t tout her “ban ’em all” propaganda line.

Then the Bearing Arms’ writer unloaded the absolute truth: “Shannon picked that particular gun because it’s scary looking. It has an M-Lok rail system like a so-called assault rifle, and it has a Picatinny scope base like many evil black rifles, and it has a magazine that’s a little too long for her tastes, so it must be an evil rifle.”

But, again, it is simply a bolt-action .22 caliber rifle dressed up to look “cool” with “tactical” accessories. If this exact same rifle was fitted with a traditional wood stock, some of the duplicitous anti-gun liberals would assure us gun owners that we would be allowed to keep it — for now at least — as part of their planned gun control infringements.

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That’s a bolt-action, .22-caliber rifle. It’s used for target practice and hunting small critters/varmints. That’s literally no different, functionally, than this rifle pictured below…it just “looks scarier”. ffs. And you wonder why “common sense” gun legislation never passes. pic.twitter.com/LzzvDg5UIJ

— Tuck Chodd (@luthiermark) March 2, 2018

It is ignorance like this tweet from Watts that cause gun owners to believe that the left is less than serious about actually doing anything reasonable to combat gun violence. Instead, it reveals that their true agenda is to ban guns of all sorts and leave the law-abiding citizens of our nation disarmed.

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Playing identity politics is a risky game. The Democrat Party no doubt thought it could snag easy votes by pandering to the largely Latino population of “Dreamers” … but the left’s eagerness to blame Republicans for every problem is now causing many in that community to reject liberal promises.

During a recent appearance on Fox News, an illegal immigrant and participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program named Cata Santiago had harsh words for Democrats and their inability to work with President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers.

“They don’t walk their talk,” declared the 20-year-old immigrant, who is a Mexican citizen but was taken to the U.S. by her parents when she was only 8.

Trump moved to end the Obama-enacted DACA program after it had been repeatedly extended, based primarily on the argument that, according to the U.S. Constitution, important immigration rules should be passed by Congress instead of created by executive action.

Trump gave lawmakers half a year to pass a permanent solution and said that he would sign it when it reached his desk. A bipartisan bill never materialized.

Santiago slammed the left for constantly pointing fingers at conservatives while doing next to nothing to actually build a path to citizenship.

“We’re tired of it. We’re tired of believing them when they say ‘It’s the Republicans.’ They make promises when they’re in an election, and when it’s over they’re done and don’t do anything,” she stated.

A recently uncovered memo from within the Democrat Party revealed that the party was worried about gaining votes from Hispanics and saw Dreamers as “a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.”

Many observers interpreted this as an admission that liberals were defending DACA for votes, not for ideological reasons.

Other immigrants also echoed Santiago’s rejection of Democrat politics.

“The Democrats made the calculation to kick the can down the road and allow hundreds of thousands of us undocumented youth to live in uncertainty,” pointed out Maria Duarte, who was part of a sit-in protest at DNC headquarters. “We are anxious and we are scared of being torn away from our homes and our community.”

Even strong advocates of the DACA program are voicing their frustration over Democrats falling on their face when it came to finding a solution for so-called “Dreamers.”

“Democrats have no plan, and once again, Schumer, now the minority leader, is showing that protecting these immigrants … was never his priority,” complained Cesar Vargas, a pro-amnesty immigration attorney.

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“The lack of leadership by Democrats, however, is nothing new. In 2009, they controlled the White House and Congress and still failed to bring up immigration reform for a vote,” Vargas pointed out.

He’s not wrong. You could even say that “complain and blame Republicans” has been the de facto Democrat playbook since the Clinton era. As the old saying goes, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time … and even Dreamers may have run out of sympathy for leftist excuses.

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The announcement on Thursday that Kim Jong Un was planning to meet, face to face, with President Trump was nothing short of a game-changer. What was even more amazing is that it does not appear the U.S. will have to make any major concessions in order for the meeting to happen.

Many wondered what had changed to bring Kim to the table. Some speculated it was an outgrowth of the “charm offensive” that the North Koreans recently engaged in at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Some have said it’s just another tactic by an unstable regime.

Others have even said it’s because the Trump administration has broken with American protocol by not treating North Korea as a pariah state, because there’s nothing so monumental and promising that it can’t be blamed on one Donald John Trump.

As for Vice President Mike Pence, he has an answer of his own. The left, predictably, isn’t going to like it — partially because it makes them look bad, and partially because it gets a lot closer to the truth than any of the other theories.

“North Korea’s desire to meet to discuss denuclearization — while suspending all ballistic missile and nuclear testing – is evidence that President Trump’s strategy to isolate the Kim regime is working,” Pence said in a White House statement Friday.

“The North Koreans are coming to the table despite the United States making zero concessions and, in close coordination with our allies, we have consistently increased the pressure on the Kim regime,” he continued.

“Our resolve is undeterred and our policy remains the same: all sanctions remain in place and the maximum pressure campaign will continue until North Korea takes concrete, permanent, and verifiable steps to end their nuclear program.”

And, as for then White House, they’re making it abundantly clear they’re not going to give in to any sort of concessions in order to have the talks.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that North Korea needs to take steps toward denuclearization and stop its missile tests, and that talks won’t happen “until we see concrete actions that match the words and the rhetoric of North Korea.”

Trump’s hardline stance on North Korea has been significantly different than that of previous administrations.

The buzz-phrase regarding Pyongyang during Barack Obama’s time in office was “strategic patience,” which allowed the regime to dramatically ramp up its military development — as one can see from the numerous missile and nuclear tests. The truth was that Obama would have never thought of playing rough with North Korea — and North Korea had no intention of sitting down at the table with America.

While the Bush administration would sporadically take a hard line on North Korea, there were other pressing issues in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan — and, while North Korea was a member in good (or rather, bad) standing of the Axis of Evil, Bush wasn’t the kind of leader to utter phrases like “fire and fury” when it came to Kim Jong Il’s provocations, such as they were.

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The Clinton administration’s dealings with North Korea were even more of a mess. Clinton, readers might remember, was the president when North Korea’s nuclear program was in its nascent stages. That administration offered food aid to the starving country in exchange for stopping its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, in addition to allowing inspectors into the country.

That deal quickly went south, however, with North Korea launching a satellite into orbit in violation of the terms of the agreement; it wasn’t long before inspectors were ejected from the country, as well.

In contrast to these three presidents, Trump has made it clear that his threats against the North Koreans are far from idle. He’s not only put pressure on North Korea, he’s put the country’s few remaining allies on notice that his administration has no intention of tolerating those who treat sanctions against Pyongyang lightly.

And, lo and behold, Kim Jong Un is coming to the table. Imagine that.

Coincidence? Mike Pence doesn’t think so, and I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who takes these sorts of things seriously who would disagree.

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