“Gun-rights supporters in the Democratic Party are putting to rest any doubt over who holds sway in Congress with a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder warning him not to try to reinstate an assault-weapons ban. Sixty-five Democrats signed the letter, a show of force with implications for several other issues, including a bill to grant the District of Columbia a vote in the House,” according to The Hill.
“Now we know there are 65 pro-gun Democrats,” said Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.). “When you add up all the pro-gun Republicans and the pro-gun Democrats, that or any other anti-gun legislation is DOA.”
This news surely bodes ill for O.C. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, who has tweaked the gun rights lobby here in Orange County. She thinks that she will get support from Democrats and Republicans. Well, if there really are that many NRA supporters in the ranks of the Democrats, then Hutchens is in real trouble.
I wonder also what sort of ramification this will have on the Democrats who are pushing for more gun control in the wake of news that many of the guns being used by Mexican drug dealers have come from American gun dealers and collectors?
Most Americans clearly believe in the 2nd Amendment. Now we know that quite a few Democrats do too. Who would have predicted that?
There aren’t 65 pro-gun Democrats…there are 65 Democrats who have decided that it’s politically expedient to oppose reinstating an assault weapons ban.
#1,
Geez, you are splitting hairs. How do you think your fellow Dem voters will perceive this?
It’s funny how the left wingers readily dismiss anyone who doesn’t think the same way they do.
There are many Democrats who support gun rights. In fact, three state Democratic parties (Nevada, Oregon and Texas) have formed gun owner caucuses.
Here’s a quote from a great Democrat on gun rights.
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom
under any government, no matter how popular and
respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms…. The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
I hear Crowleys working on a pro gun piece to inform all the misinformed.
Should be a hoot.
Meanwhile, as previously posted on this blog by somebody, HR 45 is quietly going through congress. In general, if passed and signed, this little gem will require every gun owner to be licensed and every gun owned to be registered.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:
Sorry. Bad link. Try this one and if that fails too, just google it.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show
I have just found out there are pro-gun dem’s…all this time I thought a Democrat was a gun grabbin’ Socialist. Makes me feel better about being a Blue dog supporter!
A bit of history Folks on gun laws.
It was the democrats under presedent Bill Clinton and help from senators like Dian Feinstien in California that got the 1994 Assault weapons Ban enacted.
It was Republicans under George Bush that Let it Die.
For Years most all democrats have voted anti gun on a federal level, but since the U.S. Supreme court finely reaffirmed Our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the Heller vs D.C. decission, many of the democrats are trying to save face. They are trying to lead many to believe that they are pro gun in order to give lip serves to the majority of Americans who are pro gun. They are not to be trusted however…we already know where they really stand and if given the chance, how they would vote.
Reducing Violont crime is the reason the Dems gave for enacting the 1994 assault weapons act, but the evidence in no way supports this reasoning. Infact Wikipedia states that “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) stated it “can in no way vouch for the validity” of Brady Campaign’s claim that the ban was responsible for violent crime’s decline.[2]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the “assault weapon” ban and other gun control schemes, and found “insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness “of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence.”[3]”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban)
So just remember, these 66 senators are just “donkeys in elephants clothing”!!!
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve either one.” Benjamin Franklin