Illinois is a deep blue state on the whole. And along with deep blue comes a disregard of and even a hatred for issues like gun rights for the little people among many in the political class – even among some Republicans. What’s surprised me in this election season is the unabashedly pro-gun positions staked out by many candidates.
At Guns Save Life, we can’t endorse candidates because of our tax status. We do, however, educate the people on candidates’ positions. Here are some races we’re aware of with a substantive difference between the candidates in contested Republican primary races.
Why just a handful of Republican races? Because not a single pro-gun Democrat has reached out to us. Frankly, that should be alarming by itself, but shows how Democrats running for office have moved hard left, refusing to progress toward a future of freedom and instead promoting a system of gun control that reenacts past tyrannies.
Here’s one of the races we’re looking at.
Illinois 12th Congressional District: Darren Bailey vs. Mike Bost.
Talk is cheap among so many politicians today. At election time they start talking the talk about their support of issues their base cares about. Like Adam Kinzinger or Kevin McCarthy (or Mitch McConnell), they talk tough about their support for things like gun rights. They make all sorts of promises to do things they fully know they either cannot do or have no plans to do. Then, after the election, their “leadership” on things like guns evaporates faster than a freon spill in the summer sun.
Enter Mike Bost. In recent days he’s repeated his bromide that “When it comes to guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost.”
Then he goes to Washington DC and partners up with disgraced Congressman Adam Kinzinger to support the ATF banning bump stocks through regulatory rulemaking. But that’s not all. He also supports ending private guns sales nationwide by supporting so-called “universal background checks.”
Yes, despite Bost’s pledge that “When it comes to guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost,” this same Mike Bost has remained mum on Pritzker’s gun and magazine ban and its requirement that existing owners register their self-defense rifles, pistols and shotguns before January 1, 2024.
Have you seen pledges by Mike Bost not to comply?
We’ve seen them from Darren Bailey.
Darren Bailey offers full-throated support for gun rights. Bailey also proudly and publicly proclaims his unwillingness to register his guns, something that Mike Bost has been conspicuously quiet about.
While Bailey throws sand into gun control efforts in the state at every opportunity, Mike Bost keeps a low profile.
Why, it’s almost like Mike Bost is all talk and no action.
Or, as they say in Texas: “All hat and no cattle.”
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