Barack Obama has gotten several awards for helping promote gun sales. Every time Obama blames the gun and not the shooter, gun sales increase.

And here’s another new customer, Wayne Allyn Root (italics and boldface his):

I already own handguns. Now this Jewish Ivy Leaguer is going to buy my first assault rifle. My relatives willingly marched to the gas chambers in Germany.

I’m not allowing a pathetic Neville Chamberlain-like Muslim sympathizer in the White House to ever put me in that position. I will arm myself, train and be ready, willing and able to defend myself, my family and my country. There is no bigger or more powerful threat to radical Islam than every American armed, trained and ready to defend ourselves.

That’s the only answer to radical Islam. …

Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats are ignorant, hopelessly compromised, or worse. The GOP leadership is hopelessly cowardly, ignorant, or scared of being called names by the media. …

And I have a contrarian strategy for any politician smart enough to listen. Be a breath of fresh air, go against the grain and tell the truth to the people- admit the U.S. government can’t protect us from radical Muslim terrorism. It’s time for contrarians to give bold and useful advice. Tell the American people that government cannot protect you, this administration is delusional or complicit, the borders are open, Obama won’t let the FBI do their job, this administration is going out of its way to purposely recruit Syrian refugees into America (and into YOUR neighborhoods) even though his own Homeland Security admits they can’t be properly vetted, and one more thing- ISIS is here.

Tell the American people they need to arm, not disarm.

Stand up and campaign for more guns in the hands of law-abiding U.S. citizens. Stand up and admit the people need bigger guns to match the firepower of the bad guys Obama is purposely letting in.

Tell the American people to ignore the pathetic, ignorant politicians. It’s time for a politician and patriot to lead a national campaign to arm the citizens. And educate them to do more than arm themselves to the teeth, but to also train and learn gun safety.

I believe any politician who goes against the grain and campaigns FOR gun ownership will win their election and become the most popular politicians in America.

Are you listening to Donald Trump? Do not back down. Ignore the fools, cowards, traitors and losers. Tell the people to arm themselves to the teeth, because if the government won’t fight radical Islam (or name it either), it’s up to the people to protect and defend our homeland.

This is the perfect moment in time for all Americans to arm themselves, not disarm. Because if the citizens don’t do it, who will? We are under attack. Police are either worried about being called “racist” or “Islamophobe.” Besides, they’re always too late to save us. The FBI is useless- except to investigate a terrorism scene after we’re already dead. They’ve been de-fanged by this President- ordered not to investigate Muslims out of political correctness. The NSA listens to you, me and grandma, but is ordered not to conduct surveillance on mosques- where all the Muslim terrorists are plotting our deaths.

Our enemies like ISIS are here- because of Obama’s wide open borders and the billions of taxpayer dollars he has purposely spent to import his Muslim friends. They are heavily armed with automatic weapons. And Obama’s reaction is to be far more angry at Donald Trump’s words than at the Muslim mass murderers. His instincts are to use this crisis to disarm the people, at the very moment we need to be armed.

We are at war with radical Islam. And last I checked “moderate Muslims” have not said a word. Where are the mass protests by American Muslims? Where is the “Million Muslim March” to condemn Muslim violence, murder, and terrorism? There is none. There will be none. Just as Germans never protested or marched against the Nazis. They were complicit in their silence.

This has only just begun. Gays aren’t the only targets. Soon it will be mass shootings at Jewish schools…or synagogues…or Jewish delis…or mega churches…or shopping malls (like Kenya)…or airport terminals (like Belgium)…or concert halls (like Paris). I know what’s coming. It doesn’t take a genius to know what we are facing. And I didn’t even mention a dirty bomb killing thousands and contaminating an entire American city.

ISIS is here thanks to Obama- an extreme Muslim sympathizer in the White House who refuses to even say the name of the enemy. And we all need to prepare to do what our lame government cannot, or will not. …

And in the middle of this mess, Obama and Hillary want to either disarm us…or in the best case scenario keep legal, law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens from buying the only weapons that would put us on equal footing with heavily-armed Muslim terrorists.

Sorry Obama, I said those words again. Muslim terrorist. Muslim terrorist. Muslim terrorist.

The government won’t save us. They’re too busy worrying about WORDS. They’re too busy spending billions to bring our radical Muslim enemies here legally- and give them welfare and food stamps and free healthcare while they plot our death.

It’s up to the citizens. Someone needs to stand up and tell you the truth. Only we can protect, defend and save ourselves and our country. That’s clear now. Clear as a bell. It’s time to arm like never before. That’s the ONLY defense against radical Islam. Our Muslim enemies must know in every American home is an arsenal of AR-15’s. It’s time to fight back.

Erick Erickson wants you to buy guns too:

The right to own guns in the United States is a constitutional freedom that the Senate Democrats and some Senate Republicans are perfectly happy to deny to some Americans without a due process hearing. …

Whether the left likes it or not, the genie is out of the bottle in the United States. The left cites Australia, which rounded up all their guns, but Australia does not have a constitutional right to own guns. In fact, all the cases the left cites involve countries where there is no constitutional right to own guns and in the United States there is one. …

As a result, there is roughly one gun for every American in the country. Not all Americans own guns, but many Americans own many guns. The left keeps losing on the gun issue because the reality is most Americans actually support gun rights. It is time to acknowledge that given our constitutional framework and constitutional rights, Americans need to go in the opposite direction from Europe and Australia. We need more, not less, guns.

The government is not going to save us from terrorists. The government cannot even save us from a robber at our home. A 911 call will dispatch police who may arrive in a timely manner (heavy emphasis on may). But the police will not arrive on time for a terrorist or nut job intent on inflicting mass casualties.

The gun control argument is premised on the lie that the government can and will protect us. The government did not protect the children in Connecticut or the men in women in Orlando or the soldiers in Chattanooga who were required to be unarmed or the people in the theater in Colorado. And the government cannot offer that protection. A government that is big enough to be anywhere and everywhere at all times is a police state.

Americans have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms and we should all stockpile guns and ammo. Disarming the population is not a solution in a country with a constitutional right to gun ownership. But deterrence can work wonders.

Lastly, and as an aside, someone noted the other day and I agree that it is deeply ironic liberals believe Trump is the second coming of Hitler and are concurrently actively trying to take away Americans’ gun rights.

It is also deeply ironic that liberals believe Trump is the second coming of Hitler and are concurrently trying to take away Americans’ constitutional rights, not just gun rights. Prohibiting those charged with (as opposed to convicted of) crimes or on no-fly or terrorist-watch lists from owning guns is a blatant violation of due process rights. And who is most likely to end up on one of those lists? Someone with an un-American-sounding (however you define that) last name.

Ed Krayewski reports on what happened in the House of Representatives yesterday:

Democrats are holding a sit-in on the floor of the House, demanding action on gun control.

“The time for silence and patience is long gone,” said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a former civil rights leader who’s taken the lead in the sit-in. “The American people are demanding action. Do we have the courage, do we have the raw courage to make at least a down payment on ending gun violence in America?”

Details are scarce. Vox.com reports that House Democrats would like to force a vote the way Senate Democrats did through a filibuster. The Senate votedon four gun bills on Monday night, with all four failing. The most egregious wanted to deny the right to bear arms for anyone who was put on the federal government’s terror watch list, a list the federal government can put any American on without even the pretext of due process.

But there do not appear to be any bills similar to the ones in the Senate that have actually been submitted to the House. I called the DC office of Rep. Lewis to ask for which legislation the sit-in was intended but was told there was no “specific” legislation but rather a push to get some kind of vote. After asking a follow-up, the person who picked up the phone told me he did not speak for the office and gave me the contact information for Lewis’ communications director, who has not responded*.

It’s not surprising that there’s no specific gun bill House Democrats have in mind. Despite their rhetoric, gun control has not been high on their legislative agenda, and appear to be simply exploiting emotions surrounding the Orlando shooting, an exercise I noted was dangerous for the way it can be used to limit civil liberties, restrict immigration, and even expand America’s military interventions abroad.

Sit-ins were used in the 1950s and 1960s to protest segregation. Activists would “sit in” places they weren’t welcomed in order to demand equal treatment. Today, Lewis and other Democrats are sitting in a chamber that they are a part of and that they controlled not so long ago.

Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency from 2009 to 2010 but did not pass any gun control legislation then. The four bills considered by the Senate all violated the civil liberties of Americans to one degree or another. Democrats’ hobby horse in the gun debate this time around is demanding that people on the terror watch list (which could contain more than a million names) be stripped of their constitutional right to bear arms, a basic violation of due process.

Yet Lewis manages to use the language of “injustice,” tweeting that what were Democrats were doing was “speaking out against injustice.” It’s as good an opportunity to remind Lewis and others who are leveraging their connections to civil rights movements from the 1960s to the present day to push their partisan agenda that gun control has an indisputablyracist history. “Crazy negroes” with guns helped defeat Jim Crow laws, while fear of guns in the hands of black people drove gun control laws in the 1960s. Even today, while mass shootings are convenient high-profile events on which to pin a gun control push, gun control advocates often cite inner city violence as a reason to act on gun control. Many cities with significant African-American populations, like Chicago and New York City, have among the strictest gun control laws in the country.

Anti-gun advocates point to island nations like Australia or the United Kingdom or largely ethnically homogenous, small countries in Europe as examples of gun control working, instead of countries like Brazil, which are closer in population, demographics, and history to the U.S. Voters in Brazil rejected a law to ban guns, understanding it was just another way to exacerbate the income inequality gap. Cops in Brazil and even Uruguay have been suspected of selling weapons to gangs. Strict gun control laws in that country, and elsewhere in the Americas, have been ineffective in lowering gun violence. Donald Trump is called a racist for insisting he’s going to build a wall on the border, but given the availability of firearms in the Americas, anything approaching “effective” gun control measures would require something like a huge wall to stem the flow of traffic of weapons that become highly controlled in the U.S.

Similarly, the results anti-gun advocates demand would require a ramping up of enforcement in inner cities, where a disproportionate amount of gun violence occurs, by the very same cops the anti-gun left just a few short months ago insisted it understood were engaged in systemic brutality of marginalized communities. Today John Lewis and his colleagues are sitting in on the House Floor to demand just that, cloaking themselves in emotional fervor and exploiting a culture of fear, not that far from what white supremacists in the 1960s did when they demanded more laws to control African-Americans and deny them their rights.

U.S. Rep. Justin Amash (R–Michigan) tweeted:

Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor. They refuse to leave until our Constitution replaces due process with secret lists.