You may not remember Mark Robinson’s name, but you should remember the epic “I am the majority” rant he delivered to the Greensboro, North Carolina city council as they were considering a gun show ban following the Parkland shooting.
The incredibly positive response Robinson received with video of his remarks went viral convinced him to run for North Carolina Lieutenant Governor. On Tuesday, he defeated 25-year government veteran Yvonne Holley to win the seat.
From myfox8.com:
“To come from a poverty-stricken background with all the strikes against me and succeed at this level I think should give every American, no matter what the color, no matter what the gender, hope that they too can succeed in this great place,” Robinson said.
Robinson’s campaign focused on championing the pro-life movement, fighting for workers and job security, defending school choice and protecting the Second Amendment.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Yvonne Lewis Holley, Democratic candidate for Lt Governor tells me she just called and conceded the race. Republican Mark Robinson will be North Carolina’s first Black Lt. Governor. #ElectionNight @ABC11_WTVD pic.twitter.com/qfP8CsOzII
— Tim Pulliam (@TimABC11) November 4, 2020
![By Larry Keane President Joe Biden traveled to New York City for a media event to try and show America he’s doing something about rampant crime. Instead, he blamed the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners, said nothing about holding criminals to account and repeated the same tired lies about the firearm industry he keeps at the ready – lies “fact-checked” as being false each time he’s previously recited them. It makes no difference to the president. He’s not even trying anymore. To President Biden and national gun control groups the problem is always the gun and the law-abiding members of the industry. It’s never the criminal. Blaming the ‘Resistance’ President Biden was joined by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams for a “Gun Violence Strategies Partnership” meeting to talk about how to solve the crime surge, particularly those involving firearms. Instead of real solutions, the focus devolved into blaming law-abiding gun owners and again pushing a gun control agenda. “Enough is enough,” President Biden said. “Because we know we can do things about this, but for the resistance, we’re getting from some sectors of the government and the Congress and the state legislatures, and the organizational structures out there.” That “resistance” the president spoke of is the American people. Over the past two years they’ve become fed up with police defunding policies and soft-on-crime prosecutors, like Manhattan’s Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They’ve invested in their own safety. The “resistance” is the 21 million lawful gun buyers in 2020, including more than 8.4 million first-time buyers, and the 18.5 million gun buyers in 2021, with more than 5.4 million first-timers. The ”resistance” has backstopped Congress from passing federal gun control that don’t address crime. It also stopped President Biden’s nominations of paid gun control lobbyist David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and banking activist Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency because not even all U.S. Senate Democrats could support them. They would have turned those agencies into bludgeons to hammer the firearm industry to achieve a special interest, gun control agenda. Favorite Falsehoods The president turned his aim from lawful gun owners towards the firearm industry and repeated a lie he’s rehearsed several times before. “Imagine had we had a liabil… [sic] they’re the only industry in America that is exempted from being able to be sued by the public. Only one,” the president protested. “Why the gun manufacturers?… It’s got to end. They’ve got to be held responsible for the things they do that are irresponsible.” He repeated the claim for emphasis. “And I find that outrageous.” This is flatly false. The president knows by now, or his speechwriters do and they don’t bother with the facts. CNN, Politicfact and Washington Post have all checked President Biden on his remark, including after he said it in the White House Rose Garden. CNN cleanly rebuked it. “This is false. Gun manufacturers are not entirely exempt from being sued, nor are they only industry with some liability protections.” Politifact rated it “false.” Washington Post wasn’t kinder, saying, “Biden is wrong to claim the gun industry is totally immune.” The firearm industry has liability protections under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), bipartisan legislation enacted under former President George W. Bush. The firearm industry cannot be held liable when unaffiliated third-parties, in this case criminals, misuse a legal, lawfully sold product. It’s fundamental tort law and is similar to an individual attempting to hold Ford and Budweiser responsible for drunk driving deaths. The law was passed in direct response to lawsuits filed against the industry by control groups and municipalities like the city of New York and the state of New York. These type of lawsuit continue to be filed, now even by foreign governments represented by the same gun control group, the Brady Center. Colonial-Era Error President Biden continued to ignore facts on the Second Amendment and its history. He even erred when speaking about the Revolution-era days and why the right to keep and bear arms was so sacrosanct. “When the amendment was passed, it didn’t say anybody could own a gun and any kind of gun and any kind of weapon,” President Biden remarked. “You couldn’t buy a cannon, and when – the – when this, uh, this amendment was passed.” It did, and does, say the right of the People “shall not be infringed.” Even The Washington Post was brutal in their assignment of “Four Pinocchio’s” to this statement. “Biden has already been fact-checked on this claim — and it’s been deemed false. We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim.” In fact, the Constitution of early America – before the Bill of Rights, and Second Amendment, was even ratified – granted and encouraged “special waivers” to American merchants and sailors, “allowing private individuals to act as pirates on behalf of the United States against countries engaged in war with it.” Americans given waivers and who owned warships obviously also obtained cannons for use in battle. In fact, it is still perfectly legal to buy a cannon today. It is the presidents’ fundamental misunderstanding and blatant lying about the Second Amendment that informs his gun control agenda and misguided approach to solving the crime problem. Millions of law-abiding Americans took ownership of their Second Amendment rights to protect themselves, understanding the president won’t. Instead of mangling the meaning of the right and pushing for more gun control on law-abiding Americans, the president should keep it simple. Take on the criminals and punish them for breaking the law.](https://cdn-ilbhaoh.nitrocdn.com/bgKlmMbwrWXRONuqEtcbCEpELIavckvt/assets/images/optimized/rev-5059075/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/download-26-218x150.jpeg "Harris is a Human Disinformation Campaign When It Comes to Guns")
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Anyone else looking at that photo of Yvonne Holley and thinking “Madea”?
Snot rocket. Right down my shirt.
A hearty congratulations to Mr. Robinson!
i am now ..bwahahaha
Do you mean “Medusa”?
;^)
Good for the good people.of NC. We need more citizens and fewer professional politicians in charge.
I think someone with good intentions and common sense who doesn’t know anything about politics or how to run a government, is still better than your average politician.
So now we have a MAN bragging about beating a Black Woman out of a JOB??? The shame……..
(Smile)
Tommy Sotomayor, Kevin Samuels, O’Shay Duke Jackson, Jaye De Black, and Kid Organic.
These men have been making black women mad for a very long time now on you tube. And their channels are only getting bigger and bigger.
At first glance, I thought she was one of those “whites Hispanics”
It’s called “being able to pass”, in the black community. It applies to some of my relatives.
Wait a minute…he IS a black man! He beat a black woman for the job? So what?
He’s a conservative. I don’t care what color he is. He’s one of us!
You need to FINE TUNE your SARCASM radar… It was a FUCKING JOKE for all those who did NOT get it……
The citizens of N.C.picked a good man. I wish him and his constituents much success.
I live in NC. If only the citizens of NC had been as vigilant in the Governor’s race….
I’ll take the win, and looking forward to a recount for the top seat.
Right there with you Mikey. I can’t believe Cooper won. Do you know ANYONE who likes him or thinks he did well? Because I don’t.
A lot of the population clutching their pearls over the new flu voted for him. Forest made a pretty bad play by only running as “not Roy Cooper.” At no point did Forest ever release a platform, on his weekly call with our local radio guy he repeatedly dodged questions emailed in by listeners.
I held my nose and voted before him because, well… He isn’t Roy Cooper, but I suspect we didn’t all do that.
If the GOP had run a candidate like Robinson for governor, he probably would have beat Cooper.
North Carolina’s first Black Lt. Governor is a republican. Somewhere, Chief Censor is very confused.
😂😂😂 What a tool he is.
Some rather bright news from the elections good man doing his duty.
Congratulations to Mark Robinson for standing up and getting the job done.
TRUMP/PENCE 2020.
Wow!!!
A very big (smile). It’s things like this that tell me this country will be all right.
2A win
Here’s to you Mr. Robinson, Congratulations and good luck.
“I have one word for you young man: plastics!”
At least we got this one right. I STILL can’t believe Roy Cooper got back in. I’ve never even spoken to a Democrat who likes that asshole. But Mark Robinson makes me so happy. And Richard Hudson won in my district.
Ballot printer goes “brrrrrrrrrr”. That’s probably why Cooper won. That and carpet bagging assholes.
Good news on a crappy day…
I wish him success. If he’d been running in my state I would have voted for him. I hope he can help NC keep their rights.
Oh hell yeah!
God Bless Mark Robinson. I voted for him in the primary never expecting him to even win that. Then I voted straight R ticket hoping both he and Forest would win. The results are very strange. Cooper is literally the only Democrat who won. The NC legislature and importantly NC Supreme Court is more Republican. The Court was flipped. Robinson and Tillis win. The Republican Congressmen won except in Greensboro which was gerrymandered to assure a Democrat. I am not a conspiracy theorist but it is difficult to explain. At least with Robinson, the legislature and the court out of Cooper’s hands, he can try executive orders but every last one will be challenged and he will never get a single piece of legislation passed. But I cannot understand how he was legitimately elected when the rest of his ticket lost big time.
I voted Straight R for the first time since 04, I admittedly felt a bit dirty and I fed my ballot to the machine.
Forest losing was a disappointment but didn’t surprise me much. I don’t know a single person who is a fan of Cooper past the fact that he’s a Dem. I also don’t know many people who know much of ANYTHING about Forest other than he was loudly anti-Cooper. He really needed a better ground game and needed to be more open about his platform (or have one at all) in order to sway the voters who will just pull the lever for a D without knowing anything about either major party candidate.
As a Libertarian you didn’t vote for Jo Jorgensen???
Unlike some of you who consider politics a team sport, I’m capable of making my own decisions indepently. I’m not a member of the Libertarian Party. Small “L” for me, thanks.
There must be a misprint. The media constantly tells us that Republicans are racist, white supremacists, and the 2A isn’t for black folk. It’s good to see Lt. Gov. Robinson showing that they are wrong again.
2 WORDS: FK. YEAH.
What’s next for him? If he does a good job. Gov. congressman maybe U.S. Senate. Seems like someone I would be glad to vote for.
Shatters that progressive narrative real quick.
Too bad they’re just too dumb to acknowledge it.
I remember this guy being in the news. Good for him and good for those around that area.
Wow this gave me a reason to smile!!
The office of Lt. Governor is mostly ceremonial. The person that matters is the GOVERNOR. So unless something happens to said governor and Mr. Robinson moves up a slot he’s really not going to have much of a say or effect on anything.
I moved from MI to NC last year, registered to vote, and you can bet he got mine.
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