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Lauren Boebert Is a Special Kind of Stupid

Lauren Boebert
Lauren Boebert at CPAC 2023. Photo taken by Brent M. Eastwood.

Representative Lauren Boebert has done an excellent job at branding herself as a hard-right, down-to-Earth MAGA mom. Boebert’s favorite accessory, to complete the look is a gun.

Lauren Boebert Loves Her Guns

Boebert is often seen carrying a sidearm. It makes sense.

A principle tenet of Boebert’s political identity is her staunch pro-gun stance. Boebert even opened a gun-themed restaurant, before she was a Congresswoman, named Shooter’s Grill. Last month, Boebert said that “The Second Amendment is absolute and it’s here to stay. A recent report states that Americans own 46 percent of the world’s guns. I think we need to get our numbers up, boys and girls.”

Lauren Boebert, who is a special kind of stupid, was citing a study that Aaron Karp authored. Karp found that “the biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States. Ordinary American people buy approximately 14 million new and imported guns every year.”

Americans of course only represent four percent of the global population.

Boebert’s comments came while criticizing the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) for requiring gun owners to register firearms with pistol braces.

“ATF Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms,” Boebert said. “In western Colorado, we call that a fun weekend. But DC bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people.” Boebert elaborated: “We don’t trust the ATF because of their overreaching actions, exactly like we are seeing with this rule.”

The Boebert Brand

Boebert claims that she obtained a concealed carry permit – and encouraged her restaurant servers to do the same – after a man was “beaten to death by another man’s hands…outside of [her] restaurant.”

Yeah, that never happened.

What did happen was a man who had been involved in a fight somewhere in the vicinity of Boebert’s restaurant collapsed a block away from the restaurant and died from a methamphetamine overdose. The shooting death story sells better though – and offers a better segue into why Lauren Boebert is pro-Second Amendment and carries a gun around. It doesn’t help to explain why Boebert opened a gun-themed restaurant before the incident occurred.

Anyways, I can appreciate someone wanting to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment.

Most gun owners are responsible gun owners – and as far as I know, Boebert is a responsible gun owner.

But there’s something distasteful about making guns so foundational to your identity, whether for a political or personal brand. And there’s something distasteful about fear-mongering, which is a tactic the pro-gun crowd indulges in regularly.

The simple fact is guns will always be a facet of American life, if for no other reason than the practical impossibility of recovering the bajillion guns that Americans currently own (46 percent of every gun owned on Earth, apparently). Boebert derives a lot of power from right-wing fears that liberals are coming to take Americans guns away; Boebert amplifies that fear. But it’s misplaced fear. Practically speaking, guns are unrecoverable.

What’s also frustrating about Boebert’s stance is the categorical opposition to any sort of firearm regulation. There’s nothing in the Second Amendment about the right to extended magazines or bump stocks or pistol braces. And refusing to acknowledge that America does have a problem with gun violence and that maybe advanced weaponry in the hands of everyday citizens is not consistent with society’s overall well-being, is a frustrating tenet of the portion of the American population for whom Boebert speaks.  

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Harrison Kass is the Senior Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, Harrison joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison holds a BA from Lake Forest College, a JD from the University of Oregon, and an MA from New York University. Harrison listens to Dokken.

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Harrison Kass is a Senior Defense Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, he joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison has degrees from Lake Forest College, the University of Oregon School of Law, and New York University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He lives in Oregon and regularly listens to Dokken.

30 Comments

30 Comments

  1. william phillips

    March 14, 2023 at 5:51 pm

    Who died and made you, boss? Sir? Really! What gives you the right to call any person stupid? And, Bobbert speaks for lots of people. I guess I’m weird too because I carry a gun too. But I don’t carry it out in the open, mine is in my back pocket and no one can see it. And, I’m a Maga person so, that makes me bad or stupid. I don’t think so. And, Trump, just may not go to jail. Is he God, and knows all? I like Trump, I really think Trump, was treated very unfairly by the Democrats. But Biden has caused a lot of damage! And, because we are headed the wrong way. Mr. Kass needs to watch his mouth, he had no right to say some things about some of the people.

  2. Ramjet

    March 14, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED period sport.

  3. Him

    March 15, 2023 at 1:36 am

    Saw the Leftist title, immediately checked to see if Harrison Kass was the author. Check. Review the article to see how far left and ad-hominem Kass has gone this time. People like Kass are beyond hope of ever achieving the journalistic ethics of about 2 generations ago. Kass is far to in-bred in the Leftist thought-jail to ever have a hope of thinking neutrally and rationally. To Kass, this article seems reasonable. Kass doesn’t realise that it evokes pity from people who experienced a more objective journalism decades ago. Kass’s writing is like bad breath – Kass doesn’t realise what he’s doing because his culture and circle of people he admires are all doing the same thing. This is how cultures like Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia were able to perpetuate for decades, people minnions in the system were so indoctrinated, like Kass, that they thought they were doing the right thing. It is likely that Kass sleeps well at night because his conscience has been conformed to Leftist thinkspeek. Kass, when you think of people too far gone to be of hope, check the mirror.

  4. Chris Lockhart

    March 15, 2023 at 9:10 am

    Special kind of stupid? Based on… your distaste for her perspective on guns? You can disagree with the optics of carrying a gun around everywhere and amping up the right wing, but I don’t see how that makes someone stupid.

    Terrible writing.

  5. f2000

    March 15, 2023 at 9:26 am

    “There’s nothing in the Second Amendment about the right to extended magazines or bump stocks or pistol braces.”

    This argument is a special kind of stupid. There’s nothing in the second amendment about pistols or rifles either. Just “arms.” The abolitionists defended themselves from pro-slavery democrats with privately owned cannons (see Cassius Clay, founder of Berea College). Nothing in the second amendment about cannons either.

    “America does have a problem with gun violence ”

    It’s stupid to not acknowledge that the gun violence problem is a blue zip code problem. The left has a gun violence problem, not America. America has a democrat problem. America especially has a democrat law enforcement problem. And because the left is aghast at the thought of protecting law abiding Americans from violent criminals, it’s the right and responsibility of Americans to secure their own liberty by protecting themselves from those criminal.

    “right-wing fears that liberals are coming to take Americans guns away”

    Would the left if they could? Yes. They will absolutely tell you so, and have for decades. This argument is a stupid brand of gaslighting that insists we ignore what we’ve all heard and seen.

  6. Charles Ray

    March 15, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Never met anyone who wore a government costume who wasn’t as arrogant as all holy hell. Think they’re “official government authorities” perpetually in charge of the smelly civilian peasants. Throw this column on the pile.

  7. kev sam

    March 15, 2023 at 9:30 am

    “collapsed a block away from the restaurant and died from a methamphetamine overdose” is my favorite part since that one guy named George Floyd.

  8. Jim

    March 15, 2023 at 9:35 am

    Well she may be stupid but she is an elected official. You on the other hand are a prostitute that will say anything for money. Which one is worse?

  9. TheWarSpooky

    March 15, 2023 at 9:35 am

    “Shall not be infringed.” Pretty cut-and-dried there. Regulating is infringing. She’s not my favorite, I don’t really like her. But “Shall not be infringed” is not confusing at all. Boebert isn’t a special kind of stupid. You are.

  10. Rich

    March 15, 2023 at 9:42 am

    Yawn…another knee-jerk leftist essay by a knee-jerk leftist author Kass. You know, this site actually had the potential to fill a demand for unbiased reporting on military and geo-political affairs. I used to come here often and comment on occasion. But it has devolved into just another left wing blog spewing hate and venom at its perceived enemies. With respect to this article, I find it interesting that liberals can twist the constitution into a pretzel to find the right to an abortion in the 14th amendment where no such language exists, but want to infringe on gun ownership where the second amendment expressly guarantees that right.

  11. Vincent

    March 15, 2023 at 9:48 am

    This article is a “special kind of stupid”.

  12. Pro2

    March 15, 2023 at 10:03 am

    “Boebert derives a lot of power from right-wing fears that liberals are coming to take Americans guns away; Boebert amplifies that fear. But it’s misplaced fear. Practically speaking, guns are unrecoverable.”

    ….says who? How many times have we seen government officials as well as people who are running for government office state “Yes, we are coming for your guns”?

    I agree; they are unrecoverable for the most part. However, I’m not stupid enough to believe that anti-gun people won’t continuously try to take them away.

    Boebert capitalizes on this, and that’s what makes her relevant and very, very smart. She uses the same tactics that anti-gun activists use…yet she succeeds at it. That doesn’t make her stupid.

  13. Donnie Brasco

    March 15, 2023 at 10:06 am

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    The first 5 words create the context for the 2nd amendment. “WELL REGULATED” is what the “shall not be infringed” crowd like to conveniently leave out.

  14. Matt

    March 15, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Donnie Brasco, “well regulated” means “well supplied” in the 18th century meaning of the phrase. It’s a moot point, because those first five words are the justification clause, not the operative clause of the amendment. You should know this already. That you don’t tells me that you’re either poorly read or deliberately obtuse.

    In short, it’s a Bill of Rights and not a Bill of Government Regulatory Powers.

    Since so many leftists struggle with complex sentence structure, imagine this statement: “A nutritious breakfast, being necessary to the health of a human body, the right to store and eat fruits and grains shall not be infringed.” The justification clause establishes the context; the operative clause establishes the right.

  15. f2000

    March 15, 2023 at 10:28 am

    “WELL REGULATED”

    No one is leaving them out. I’m sure you’ve heard this and are just pretending to not know it, but at the time of ratification, well regulated was understood to mean roughly well supplied. It does not mean restricted according to government whim.

    Regardless, the rest of the amendment properly acknowledges that the right resides with the citizen: “the right of the people.” and was rooted in the history of english civil war and the British government’s efforts to disarm disfavored groups to protect their power.

  16. John Q Public

    March 15, 2023 at 10:55 am

    Of course I was sucked in by the headline, knowing that Mrs. Boebert is anything but “stupid” so I wanted to know what was the basis of the article. In the end, I couldn’t disagree more with Kass, sorry young man but the problem with “gun violence” in America is a problem in inner cities with lefty prog DAs and mayors who do everything within their powers to disarm the populace, make them the criminals, and twisting themselves into pretzels to justify letting the real criminals go free.

  17. Bobby

    March 15, 2023 at 10:56 am

    Question, does the first amendment mention anything about social media or internet? No dummy so your point on extended mags etc in the second amendment is moot.

  18. monster

    March 15, 2023 at 11:03 am

    I’ll bet the author finds nothing distasteful of those on the left who make abortion foundational to their political identities.

  19. DarthCody69

    March 15, 2023 at 11:06 am

    “Harrison joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged”

    I’m a Rated Officer, first USAF and now ANG. You’re a piece of shit. It’s like saying ‘I joined but had asthma in BMT’ just to try to prove your credentials to online strangers.

    Oh, your article is also dogshit.

  20. Dorrin W

    March 15, 2023 at 11:06 am

    Special kind of stupid?? She stands on a written, specific legal right (though some question the limits). But you, Mr.(?) Kass, probably fully support a political party whose members think islands can capsize and sleeping with known enemy’s spies is intelligent and wise. But, based on your viewpoint per your article, one-up-man-ship and smirky feelings of some sort of superiority seem to be more important to you than true public service.

  21. monster

    March 15, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Matt and F2000, Donnie is not being obtuse nor is he reading poorly, he’s just repeating or more likely regurgitating what he’s been indoctrinated to say by our current educational system.

  22. monster

    March 15, 2023 at 11:13 am

    ““right-wing fears that liberals are coming to take Americans guns away”

    Would the left if they could? Yes. They will absolutely tell you so, and have for decades. This argument is a stupid brand of gaslighting that insists we ignore what we’ve all heard and seen.”

    One only need look north towards Canada to see how true this is in becoming realized here if the left had their way.

  23. Rich

    March 15, 2023 at 11:16 am

    With respect to “a well regulated militia”, SCOTUS ruled in Heller that the right to bear arms applies to individual citizens in everyday life so that argument is moot. But of course, liberals only like SCOTUS decisions when they work in their favor. Thus Roe was correct and just while Heller and Dobbs were illegitimate. See how that works?

  24. C'mon, Man!

    March 15, 2023 at 11:28 am

    “There’s nothing in the Second Amendment about the right to extended magazines or bump stocks or pistol braces.”

    Other than the term “arms,” you mean? If you don’t believe that term applies to implements relating to or arising from arms, then I guess “there’s nothing in the [First] Amendment about” the internet, or blogs, or signs, or letters to the editor.

    Right?

  25. Nick from Detroit

    March 15, 2023 at 12:04 pm

    Mr. Kass, your post is illogical and a special kind of stupid.

    “Boebert claims that she obtained a concealed carry permit – and encouraged her restaurant servers to do the same – after a man was “‘beaten to death by another man’s hands…outside of [her] restaurant.’”

    Representative Boebert did not claim that she obtained her permit AFTER the man died. She said, according to a quote by The Durango Herald, found in the Sept. 14, 2020, edition of The Colorado Sun, “I started carrying that day.” She also said, in another interview (ABC Nightline 7-22-14), that her waitresses asked if they could open carry, too.

    There was a violent altercation in our back alley where a man was physically beaten to death and it immediately prompted the question, ‘How will I defend my people?’ So, I began to carry that day,” Boebert told the Durango Herald last year.

    “The shooting death story sells better though […].”
    Representative Boebert said, “he was beat [sic] to death by another man’s hands.” You quoted as much. So, what “shooting death story” are you talking about?

    “What did happen was a man who had been involved in a fight somewhere in the vicinity of Boebert’s restaurant collapsed a block away from the restaurant and died from a methamphetamine overdose.”

    So, a meth-head OD’ing around the block from Mrs. Boebert’s restaurant isn’t enough for her to worry about her safety and her waitstaff’s? By the way, it was initially investigated as an homicide by LEO. Do you know that Mrs. Boebert read about the autopsy? Maybe she only heard about the incident people in town? That would explain why her statement is off.

    “It doesn’t help to explain why Boebert opened a gun-themed restaurant before the incident occurred.”
    Maybe because it’s in a town called RIFLE, Colorado, Einstein?
    You gun-grabbers are all the same.

  26. Bob Carter

    March 15, 2023 at 12:23 pm

    As long as we’re talking about what is or isn’t protected in the bill of rights, this observer of “special kinds of stupid” would do well to note that there’s also no mention of any of the present day modern methods and technologies we use to enjoy our first amendment rights either. Be careful of the paths of “rationale” you choose, or you just might find yourself shouting from atop a soapbox. Literally.

  27. Nick from Detroit

    March 15, 2023 at 1:31 pm

    To those who are dumb enough to listen to liberal talking points on the 2A, here is how James Madison introduced the right to keep and bear arms, in his list of amendments to the Constitution, on the Floor of the U.S. House, 8 June, 1789:

    Fourthly, That in article 1st, section 9, between clauses 3 and 4, be inserted these clauses, to wit:

    […]

    The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.

    This shows that the “militia” part was only a statement of fact, but did not prohibit people from being religious, conscientious objectors to bearing arms in the militia. The wording was changed in the final article of amendment, but it doesn’t change the fact that the right is an individual right.

    Also, the power to “regulate” the militia was/is given to Congress, not the States, as is clear in Article I, Section 8, Clause 16:

    To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; […].

    Everyone back then knew what “the right of the people” meant. It is only today’s morons, educated by public school curricula, who have trouble figuring this out.
    Lord have mercy on this great nation.

  28. Trevor Barker

    March 15, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    First, it is the first four (not five) words! But secondly you miss the real purpose of this clause and that is to ensure THE PEOPLE (not the government) have a right to a means to change the government should it exceed the consent of the governed.

  29. Will

    March 15, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    “Yeah, that never happened.

    What did happen was a man who had been involved in a fight somewhere in the vicinity of Boebert’s restaurant collapsed a block away from the restaurant and died from a methamphetamine overdose. The shooting death story sells better though”

    What shooting death story? She straight up said the man was BEATEN to death, which he was. Can you not even read your own article?? The man was savagely beaten and then dropped dead a block away. Are you implying that George Floyd also died from a drug overdose and not from a physical assault?

  30. Washer

    March 15, 2023 at 3:58 pm

    Donnie Brosco,
    “Well Regulated” as used in 18th century colonial period, meant well practiced, competent, capable, able to effectively utilize. It does not mean, controlled and restricted by government rules, laws or regulations like we mean today.
    Also, the “Militia” as used in the 18th century, meant the people, the local population, or individuals. It did not mean a government administered, controlled, supplied and equipped army like is often interpreted today.
    Please read more colonial, revolutionary war, and Critical Period American history. Our “Natural Rights”, freedoms and liberties depend on it.

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