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Clete Wetli hosts "All That's Left" on WVNN 92.5FM Saturdays 11am-2pm. Email Clete at decaturclete@gmail.com or visit cletewetli.com.

There's nothing that will sell guns and ammo faster than a conservative politician frothing at the mouth that Democrats are coming for your guns even though everybody with half a brain knows that it's simply and absolutely a lie.

This NRA-sponsored baseless rhetoric has become routine in politics because politicians know it works for the segment of their base that's hoarding MREs and incandescent light bulbs in their basements.

When Republicans said Obama was coming for your guns, sales of ammunition and firearms skyrocketed. Of course, Obama never advocated the confiscation of guns, but the truth never stopped conservatives from using fear to motivate their base.

Now, we've got the ultimate political waffler, Donald J. Trump, joined by Alabama's Senator and perennial pessimist, Jeff Sessions, blatantly lying about Hillary Clinton by claiming that she is obsessed with repealing the Second Amendment. They claim that her support of expanding background checks is just liberal code for mass gun confiscation. That makes about as much sense as claiming that checking ID for alcohol sales means that you're in favor of Prohibition.

In this election cycle, the truth just doesn't seem to matter anymore. It's all about convincing the electorate that the election of anyone in the opposing party will be the apocalyptic manifestation of fear which will usher in the complete collapse of America as we know it.

Driving in to work, I heard WVNN's Will Anderson say that electing Hillary Clinton means that America will instantly go the way of the Roman Empire. Really? It's not simply that it makes Anderson sound like a complete babbling fool, but it's the fact that he carelessly reinforces fear-based rhetoric that doesn't contain the slightest shred of truth. Like Trump, Anderson just plays to the crowd by saying anything to ensure that they remain agitated in their own righteous indignation and thoroughly convinced that they've been victimized by a government gone amuck.

That's why Trump suddenly fell in love with the NRA and claims Clinton isn't just coming for your guns, but intends to let all the criminals out of prison, too. Next, he'll claim that she's going to ban Christianity or sliced bread. Hey, whatever makes America hate again!

Let's be clear- no one's coming for your guns.

The NRA has become ridiculous when it comes to their extremist defense of the Second Amendment by claiming somehow that the right to bear arms is unique among all rights in that it should be considered absolute in all situations. This unrealistic position has caused the lobbying group to oppose any sensible type of gun regulation before they even hear the proposal.

Conservatives have no problem infringing on a woman's right to choose an abortion and certainly no problem with restricting voter's access to the polls, but they are dead set against anything that relates to ensuring that firearms don't get into the hands of people likely to commit crimes.

The NRA sincerely wants to get rid of gun-free zones, except in those special cases where they have political VIPs, like Trump, pandering at an event that they sponsor. They don't want anyone in the audience to have a gun, but it's ok for an NRA official to give a politician one on stage for the next news cycle photo-op.

Americans need to tell Trump, Sessions, and the NRA to quit lying and to quit being callous jerks about America's very real and serious problem with gun violence.

In the meantime, ditch some of those MREs or you won't have any room for those fifty extra ammo clips or those high-powered military assault rifles you use for hunting...um, rabbits.