It seems a Missouri candidate to replace outgoing Demoncrat in RINO drag Roy Blunt has come with up a campaign ad guaranteed to blow up the internet and leftist minds with a furor. To be fair there are conservatives that have reservations about it as well. But first I’ll let you watch it.  Just watch, then we’ll discuss. Ok?

Now, I don’t really have that big a problem with the ad. I don’t. It’s cheesy and over the top, but Greitens has some stiff competition for the Senate seat so he’s trying to set himself to the front of everyone’s mind. It did blow some (most likely) RINO minds. Caleb Rowden, the Missouri Senate majority leader said on Twatter he contacted the Missouri Highway Patrol and hoped Greitens got help. I think that seems a bit, well, stupid on Rowden’s part. Can anyone say “Red Flag”? I knew you could. I did hear a caller named Carl who called in and said in light of recent events he thought it was kind of tone deaf, and going to scare people that don’t understand guns or the Second Amendment. Well, I can’t argue that. He also has some baggage to overcome, that’s not my problem with him either. I’ve written columns defending him in the past, SO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO because the prosecutor that went after him, Kim Gardner is a Soros plant. So it’s not that.

It’s this. Greitens Has Second Thoughts On Second Amendment Preservation Act

Former Missouri governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens has pivoted 180 degrees on the issue of the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act; a new law that took effect earlier this year that forbids state and local police from working with their federal counterparts in enforcing federal gun control laws that aren’t mirrored in state statute.

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Greitens, who’s running against a crowded field in the Republican primary for the seat currently held by retiring GOP Senator Roy Blunt, slammed SAPA and its supporters.

But he’s in famous company. “Democratic officials from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland down to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones” don’t like it either.

But wait five minutes, a few days later he “100% supports it”.

The article listed raises a good point.

I suspect that Greitens’ original comments were meant as a slight against Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who’s both supported SAPA and is also running to replace Roy Blunt in the Senate. I can understand wanting to differentiate yourself from the competition, but referring to SAPA supporters as either willing accomplices or innocent dupes of the defund the police movement, Greitens ended up metaphorically shooting himself in the foot.

Now this article is from Dec 6, 21 so it’s not exactly fresh. I’ve raised the concerns of Greitens comments to others in the Second Amendment community. The Missouri Second Amendment Protection Act is a darn fine piece of legislation. One of the things it is meant to protect Missouri citizens from is this, and this is from 2005. I’m not predicting the future here, this is something that has already happened.

ATF, Virginia Police Accused of ‘Persecuting’ Gun Shows You’ll have to read the article to find out about the heavy ATF and local law enforcement presence combined at the show. I want to draw your attention to ONE of the things that took place. You should really read the whole thing to see everything that took place.

“They did something else, which is highly illegal,” Gelles charged. “They did something called a residency check.”

Gelles explained that, when gun dealers took the paperwork to the Virginia State Police on-site office to complete the background checks on prospective buyers, ATF agents copied the names, home addresses and telephone numbers of the applicants.

Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, told Cybercast News Service that he has received numerous complaints alleging that as handgun buyers were waiting for their National Instant Check System (NICS) background investigations to be completed, ATF was secretly conducting the so-called “residency checks.”

According to the complaints he received, Van Cleave said officers were dispatched to the homes of the prospective gun buyers to speak with family members, asking for example: “Gee, did you know your husband was going to a gun show today? Do you have his cell phone number? Did you know he was buying a gun?

“If people weren’t home they, in some cases, went to neighbors” to ask the same questions, Van Cleave said.

“I’m not an attorney but, I’ll tell you what, in my opinion that would be a violation of federal law,” Van Cleave said. “To go off on a fishing trip with that information, much less sharing information like that with neighbors, there’s no way that’s legal.”

And, as I said, this is just one of the things listed in the account, there are others. And Eric Greitens thinks it’s fine. He wants local elected officials to sell out their law abiding citizens that depend on them, and elected them for what? Relief from federal pressure, a new militarized Humvee or something? I dunno, nor do I care. But this sort of abuse of citizens is what the Missouri SAPA is meant to prevent. We currently have a weaponized federal law enforcement branch, if you doubt that ask someone that’s been attacked by them.

Isn’t it nice to have friends that tip you off to stuff that’s going on so you can fire up the internet and share in the fun? Eric Greitens was on the Pete Mundo in the morning show, a morning radio show that covers Missouri politics, local politics, events and opinions. I know for a fact someone sent in a question about his waffling support on Missouri’s SAPA. And asked in light of his recent kerfluffle (Caleb Rowden’s call to the MOHP) would he be re-thinking his lack of support for it?

Nope. He was asked, but just like he weaseled around before when the show host asked him about it. The host mentioned Dana Loesch had dinged him on it, and to be honest Dana is supporting Eric Schmitt. Greitens just dismissed the question and said since she’s supporting another candidate…..but listen for yourself, it’s not that long a segment and hopefully I have it set to start after the ads.

Another caller later pointed out Greitens hadn’t answered the question, it seemed his approach is “If you don’t support me, you’re a RINO” and that he is very much making use of the branding and labels of MAGA. I don’t trust this, I don’t trust it at all and the more he does it the more it makes my spidey senses tingle. I really wanted to write a column in support of this guy, but government is not a friend of the people. Especially not now.

Most of the show including follow up callers can be found here https://omny.fm/shows/pete-mundo-kcmo-talk-radio-103-7fm-710am/eric-greitens-controversial-rino-hunting-ad-goes-v

I also listened to a Dennis Prager Fireside chat today (Otto! The Bulldog!) On what’s more dangerous than Guns?
https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-241-what-is-more-dangerous-than-guns

He rightly points out that nuclear weapons are far more dangerous than guns. But no one is concerned that France, the U.K. and more than likely Israel have them. People are concerned Russia, North Korea, China and soon Iran have them. Then he pointed out how many millions have been murdered at the hands of their own governments. Only government having guns is far scarier than guns, because who’s hand the gun rests in matters.
So a politician that loudly proclaims he’s pro-Second Amendment while obviously on more than one occasion disparaging laws set to protect citizens from Federal overreach does not impress me. The time to get legislation like that passed is before it’s needed, because after it’s needed it’s too late. If Greitens can’t look down the road and foresee that, he’s not going to help much. He’s like the guy in the bus after it’s gone off the curve and tumbled down the cliff on the third roll who says “Slow down and watch out for the curve!”. He may not be as bad as a Susan Collins or a Roy Blunt, but he sure isn’t a Rand Paul or Josh Hawley. And that’s just if there is no malicious intent.

Nope, Spidey senses are tingling.