Don’t DSA My USA: Just Say No to Commies

There’s a dark mood creeping into American politics that has even the most die-hard gun control politicians worried. Democrats, typically (but not always) aligned with gun control, are facing the prospect of their political party turning their gaze to complete control.

Enter the Democratic Socialists of America.

These candidates for political office aren’t your grandfather’s Democrats or even limousine liberals. They can’t even honestly call themselves socialists. They’re cosplaying communists who are shredding any pretense of respect or admiration for the U.S. Constitution.

This is what George Orwell warned of in his novel, “1984.” They want complete and total control of the American government, including openly calling for abolishing of the U.S. Constitution, tearing down the balance of powers between the three branches of government, destroying of Department of War and most ominously, seizing the “resources and production.”

Make no mistake. Controlling the firearm and ammunition industry would be on the top of that list.

Who is the DSA?

The DSA has been making waves by striking out against Democratic candidates in primaries. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Most notably, disgraced former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Graham Platner, the fabled “oyster farmer” whose scandal-ridden past finally crashed his run for office, is an avowed member of the DSA.

But Platner wasn’t democratic by any means. He was full-on Communist. That was uncovered in his previous online postings, which he attempted to delete. Holding his hand the whole way along was U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). That’s the same Sen. Sanders who honeymooned in Moscow in 1988, while the Communist Soviet Union was still in power.

Platner’s rise and inglorious immolation only emboldened members of the DSA. More candidates are on tickets in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. Democrats, who are notoriously anti-Second Amendment, are suddenly finding themselves having to defend against a communist flank in their own party.

That should concern everyone who believes the U.S. Constitution is the founding document that guides America’s form of government and protects Second Amendment rights. The DSA’s party platform essentially calls to tear it all down. They would burn it to rule over the ashes.

DSA Platform

The DSA’s platform includes abolition of the U.S. Senate (sorry, Sen. Sanders for losing your job), replacing the President of the United States and U.S. Supreme Court with an Executive and Judicial Branch that would be subordinate to what’s left of Congress.

That’s not reforming the U.S. Constitution. That’s complete annihilation of it. The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution set up the federal government’s Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches. Each branch is co-equal and is a check and balance on the other.

The DSA would give their new form of government complete authority, with the Executive and Judiciary subservient to the authority of what’s left of the Legislative Branch. It’s spelled out in their platform where they call for “a new democratic constitution.”

The DSA platform also espouses seizing control of the means of production. The DSA’s Constitution & Bylaws state in Article II that “We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production…”

Further, in 2018, the DSA explicitly called for the repeal of the Second Amendment, stating, “… the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to remove guns from society…” The DSA called for adoption of a 28^th Amendment, repealing the Second Amendment and the prohibiting of “manufacturing, transportation or importation in or into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of pump-action, semi-automatic or automatic firearms.”

That’s not just ending an individual right to keep and bear commonly-owned firearms (the DSA would “allow” individuals to maintain ownership of single-shot firearms), it means the DSA would seize control of the firearm and ammunition industry, since the DSA platform calls for “popular control of resources and production.”

That’s full-on communism, which is marked by brutal violence.

Cosplaying Communists

The DSA’s New York City Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo was grilled by Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on the party duplicity to end American democracy when even his own family escaped Maoist communist guerillas in Peru. Gordillo attempted to twist that by blaming the violent communism on “capitalism and American imperialism.”

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Your family came here from Peru really in the middle of the heat of the Shining Path. They were Maoist communist guerrillas in Peru. So why did your family come to America?”

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MacCallum wanted to ensure the answer was clear.

“They come here because they don’t like the imposition of American imperialism in the country that they’re in,” she asked. Gordillo answered, “Yes…” MacCallum responded, “That doesn’t make much sense.”

Hasan Piker, the online agitator who stokes antisemitism and aligns with the DSA, showed the movement’s true colors. He addressed a recent confab of the national College Democrats of America group while wearing a clothing outfit that closely resembled former communist dictator Mao Zedong. It shouldn’t be lost on any student of history that Mao enforced state control of who could possess firearms when his Communist party took control of China in 1949, declaring that “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”

It is estimated that 65 million Chinese died through Mao’s communist policies of execution, imprisonment and forced famine.

The DSA are cosplaying Communists. And it’s shaking up even the most ardent gun control voices. Van Jones, a former special advisor to President Barack Obama, political analyst and CNN host and self-described “progressive Democrat,” posted to X, “Leaders in both parties called to tell me the same thing: this stuff has gone too far.”

Bill Maher, comedian and political talk show host who is described as a “moderate liberal,” told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that he’s open to voting for Vice President JD Vance, should he run for office, because of the left’s lunacy.

“OK, I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform from their own mouths,” Maher said, referring to the organization DSA, according to The Hill. “Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing. And DSA, again, they say things like ‘takeover of key industries’ … That’s communism. You know, there is a definition.”

Jake Altman was a former DSA member, who is now warning that the DSA is bent on destroying America and its fundamental identity. He told Fox News, the DSA is “perfectly willing to cohabitate with Maoists, with Trotskyists, with Leninists” — groups determined to rip down America. They are “People who want to pull down American institutions and are very clear about it. People who have this thrill to violence. That is just profoundly troubling at a time when our country is already facing many, many problems.”

Protect Liberty

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The firearm industry cannot afford more legislative and regulatory attacks from Washington, D.C., partisans who seek to end the lawful commerce in our industry. The balance of power in Washington, D.C., rests on a razor’s edge, and Protect Liberty PAC will focus on federal elections to ensure American freedoms have a bulwark. The battle lines are drawn and the stakes are high.

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Learning about who these candidates are and how they would respect American freedom is vital to ensuring America isn’t victim to communism.

 

Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.