U.S.A. — “My newsroom, OMG has JUST published a new bombshell story featuring a U.S. legislative body, this time the office of Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania),” investigative journalist James O’Keefe noted on his Telegram feed. “The story features Special Assistant Luke Borwegen who is not only the primary aide to the Senator, but is also tasked with holding the iPad for his reading abilities and according to Borwegen is the one who has to follow him around at all times.”
OMG confirmed what observant gun owners have been documenting and warning against for years, only to have prohibitionists ridicule it as paranoid hyperbole.
“A special assistant to U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was caught on tape saying he believes his boss would probably ‘be OK with overturning the Second Amendment,’” Delaware Valley Journal explained.
That presumably does not include Fetterman, who needed his to threaten an unarmed black jogger that he pursued and held at gunpoint. The media mostly ignored that story during the last election, which would have been the political kiss of death for any but a “progressive” Democrat, and that touches on another point Borwegen bragged about.
“He talks about Fetterman’s favorable treatment from friendly reporters, who he describes as ‘puppets,’” the DVJ report elaborates. “He also shares how Fetterman’s team has leveraged ‘access journalism’ into positive press coverage.”
“He’s 100 percent for gun control,” Borwegen claimed. “Banning automatic weapons, all that s***, he’d be OK with overturning the Second Amendment, probably. I think he’d much rather prefer that nobody have guns at all.”
As is so prevalent among the gun prohibitionists, Borwegen repeats the “automatic weapons” deception deliberately sowed by the Violence Policy Center in 1988 and repeated ad nauseam by the media, anti-gun agitators, and Democrat politicians ever since and without regard to truth. VPC explained in “Assault Weapons and Accessories in America”:
“The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
Fetterman’s own public statements show his aide understands his position well.
“Gun violence gave rise to my career in public service,” Fetterman claimed on Facebook. “To witness what an assault rifle round can do to a human body, is to know they have no place in a civil, safe society.”
You’ll notice proponents never define the criteria they use to establish potential damage and be upfront about what hunting rounds they believe have no place and that they also want to ban.
“Common sense gun laws are called that for a REASON. Enough is enough. Democrats need to be ruthless + united NOW. Scrap the filibuster + pass common sense gun control supported by the majority of Americans.”
That’s because most Americans are “informed” by the same media Fetterman’s own aide describes as willing “puppets.” The poll respondents are oblivious to the deceptions, omissions, and counters to the presumptions behind the polls, and therefore don’t know what they’re talking about. He also presupposes that “majority rule” is all you need to overturn a Constitutional amendment and deny unalienable rights, which would degrade them to revokable privileges.
That’s what the violence monopolists have been trying to do, and their attempts at overturning the Second Amendment and banning civilian ownership of firearms have been well documented.
(As a side note, if a tyrannical government did repeal the Second Amendment it would not take away the right to keep and bear arms, which the Supreme Court noted in Heller when it admitted “The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it ‘shall not be infringed.’ As we said in United States v. Cruikshank, ‘[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed…’”.)
But that won’t stop the grabbers, whether they’re talking about banning “assault rifles” or “ghost guns,” or as they were going for in the early days before they decided incrementalism worked better than revealing all your cards up front, handguns. Bottom line: Of course, they’re talking about taking your guns. They just never flesh out how they think they can get away with it if millions of Americans say “No.”
Meanwhile, puppet media is trying its best to direct attention away from the OMG report, with a Newsweek hit piece on Kari Lake trying to cast doubt among readers that the man interviewed on video is, in fact, Borwegen. That should be a simple enough task for “real reporters,” one would think, to contact colleagues who have covered Fetterman and worked with his staff, or just to use a search engine.
That lame attempt to redirect confirms everything the aide gloated over about how the press can be leveraged to “report” what they’re told in order to curry favor and gain access.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
