Posted on 05/19/2016 7:55:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
LOUISVILLE — Gun rights backers lament what they describe as a leftward drift on Second Amendment rights by Democrats in recent years, and predicted the push for stricter laws in blue state bastions such as California and Illinois will cost them even more independent-minded voters.
Within the last decade, Democrats, including then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were making overtures to gun groups including the National Rifle Association.
But the 2012 Newtown school shooting spurred a realignment, with Democrats at the national level increasingly adopting a gun control posture, pushing gun rights Democrats to suppress their own views, said attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, which kicked off Thursday in Louisville.
“They have shifted. Oh, heavens yes I’d say the last eight years,” said Sandy Jarrett, a 60-year-old retiree from Troy, Ohio. “You go back to Kennedy and all the other Democrats — they were pro-gun. There was never an issue.”
That’s in stark contrast to people like President Obama and likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who talk about having to “kill the guns,” she said.
The lineup at this week’s NRA convention underscores the lopsidedness of the debate. Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is a featured speaker, as are Republican governors from Indiana and Kentucky, both Republican U.S. senators from Kentucky, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina.
Among Democrats, meanwhile, the featured speaker at the NRA lobbying arm’s “Leadership Forum” on Friday is Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., who’s carved a niche as a pro-gun rights Democrat. He addressed the convention in 2015 too.
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And yet there are still gun-owners who vote RAT. They should be publicly shamed.
The NRA continues to “grade” both State and Federal Legislators on gun issues, and I submit they should have put that out of their mind, years ago. There is no good democrat in office or out that I would trust to protect what is God given. It just isn’t in their DNA. Fifty years ago, maybe, but not today.
Why is it 5 years instead of 50 years? So if I sell Fully automatic Guns, then I too would only get 5 years?
>As long as there is freedom, we will ALWAYS have guns and as long as Americans have guns, there will ALWAYS be freedom.<
When freedom wanes and vanishes, we will STILL have guns and as long as Americans have guns, freedom can return.
I believe, as do you, that DEMOCRAT Senator Yee justly deserved a much longer sentence.
That said, I'm glad he he is where he is.
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Yup! I just can’t trust a government that works so hard trying to disarm the people. Allowing the government to disarm the people is not who Americans are.
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