Larry Pratt, president of Gun Owners of America, recently appeared on Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program where he declared that Democratic lawmakers are rightly afraid of being shot by gun owners because “that’s what the Second Amendment is all about.”
Klingenschmitt asked Pratt why wealthy activists like Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg are willing to spend large amounts of money in supporting gun control measures when, according to Klingenschmitt, doing so only hurts Democrats at the polls.
Pratt said that Democrats in general support gun control because they are socialist “control freaks” who know that if they are ever going to be able to control every aspect of the lives of America citizens, they first need to take away all of their guns.
And those guns first need to be taken away, Pratt said, because Democrats are fully aware that their efforts to exert total control will result in them getting shot.
“They clearly want to exercise power that, in their judgment, would cause enough push-back to stop them from doing what they’re doing,” Pratt said. “And I just said in a nice way that they’re afraid of getting shot and they ought to be! That’s what the Second Amendment is all about. They ought to be afraid of an armed people so that they don’t get into a situation where they would actually provoke violence”:
This is not the first time Pratt has expressed the sentiment. This summer, he earned a rebuke from the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — a Democratic lawmaker was shot in an assassination attempt — for saying that the fear of assassination was “a healthy fear” for members of Congress to have.
