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| The Path To The Presidency Runs Through The Second Amendment |
| 2019-04-19 |
| [Daily Caller] In the law, there’s an exception to the "hearsay rule" for an "admission against interest." Hence, even a party you might treat with skepticism can be believed when he says something that demolishes his argument. I thought about this recently when The Washington Post reported its findings that mass shootings hadn’t dramatically affected public opinion concerning gun rights ‐ in the small towns where those shootings occurred! Hence, after a year of arguing that America had reached a "tipping point" on gun rights, even the liberals are conceding that we’re at the same point we were after the passage of the semi-automatic ban in 1994 ‐ the same point we were after Columbine, and the same point we were after Newtown. That is, the vigorous attacks on the Second Amendment are toxic14 in American politics in most parts of the country. This was particularly interesting because The Washington Post published an article last week which observed that virtually every Democratic presidential candidate was engaging in vigorous attacks on the Second Amendment ‐ thereby taking a step which had rightfully terrified Democrats for the last 25 years. Think about it: Democrats enacted the semiautomatic ban and the Brady Law in the 103rd Congress. The next election, they lost the House which they had held with an iron grip for a generation. President Bill Clinton credited gun control for the tsunami of 1994. After Columbine, Republicans resisted the temptation to enact a single word of gun control. The next election, they picked up the White House, as a result of gun owners tipping West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the Florida Panhandle. After Newtown, Republicans successfully filibustered every word of gun control. In 2014, they took control of the Senate |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Yeah, all that success will give them an ice cream headache and they will run in the opposite direction. Just watch... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-19 09:44 |