“What Happened”: Clinton Recognizes NRA’s Power, Rewrites History, Urges Dems to Double-down

drrichswier.com ^ | 16 September, 2017 | Dr. Rich Swier

[marktwain]

This week, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her new book, “What Happened,” which chiefly serves to assign blame to the myriad politicians, journalists, organizations, countries, prejudices, and technologies she claims caused her defeat. Gun rights supporters will be happy to know that NRA is featured prominently.

In addition to apportioning NRA its well-deserved share of the blame, Clinton seeks to rewrite her own history on the gun issue and urges her fellow Democrats to ignore political reality and continue to champion gun control.

NRA’s Power

Clinton repeatedly acknowledges NRA’s influence on the 2016 election and the broad political landscape.

Pointing out the grassroots power of gun rights supporters, Clinton explains, “The politics of guns has been toxic for a long time… The vocal minority of voters against gun safety laws have historically been more organized, better funded, and more willing to be single-issue voters.”

Recounting her first policy speech of the 2016 campaign, where she attacked NRA, Clinton admits, “Going after the NRA is dangerous for candidates…”

Reiterating some of the same points Bill Clinton made about NRA’s power in his 2001 autobiography My Life, Clinton writes,

In the 1990s, my husband fought hard to pass both a ten-year ban on assault weapons and the Brady Bill, which, for the first time, required background checks on many gun purchases at federally licensed firearms dealers… The NRA funded an intense backlash to the new safety measures and helped defeat a lot of Democratic members of Congress in the disastrous 1994 midterm elections. Then, in 2000, the NRA helped beat Al Gore.

Discussing NRA’s contribution to her 2016 defeat, Clinton notes, 

[marktwain]

The author notes useful information about Hillary and her history on Second Amendment issues.

[Pollster1]

I am glad that Hillary has chosen to stay in the limelight, and I am even happier that she is encouraging her fellow democrats to continue pushing for infringements on our basic human rights. That combination should guarantee a republican Congress for another four years.

[PROCON]

Yes, and I read the NRA's take on her book too.

Let's hope they do continue to double-down on gun control, it has always been a losing issue for them.

[PROCON]

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[DBrow]

“common sense gun safety issues”= dogwhistle talk for registration and confiscation.

[buffyt]

Rewriting history. How Orwellian!

[hadaclueonce]

Keep digging that hole Hillary!
Keep writing books that few will read.
Hillary, most now recognize you as nuts.

Thanks for playing!
Don’t forget your particpation trophy.

[buffyt]

My husband is 66, got first rifle and shotgun at age 11. Never hurt h8 self or anyone else.

[RitaOK]

Is Hillary, who is a talentless bore, competing against the Obama machine for air time and influence with the Left?

She can’t stand the thought that Bernie is still out there either, just as active, still in elected office, and smokin’ in the fast lane, while she can’t cut it.

[RitaOK]

Is Hillary, who is a talentless bore, competing against the Obama machine for air time and influence with the Left?

She can’t stand the thought that Bernie is still out there either, just as active, still in elected office, and smokin’ in the fast lane, while she can’t cut it.

[Vendome]

My favorite part in all this is listening to women tell me that America was not ready to have a Woman for president.

My instant response is to inform them “That’s a Bull Shiite Lie and you can blame yourself as well the rest of your kook lefty friends”.

“Hillary received 67 million votes, while Trump garnered 62 million.

Clearly there exists a majority of Americans who are comfortable with a woman as president.

However, the game is called Representive Government and she lost the Electoral College.

So stop throwing the vagina card around because it gets real fishy after a while...

[umgud]

The last 8-10 years has produced an explosion of new gun purchases and I doubt the buyers are interested in voting for anyone who wants to infringe their gun ownership.

[blueunicorn6]

What kind of game were you playing that had a “vagina card” in it?

Nope. Nope. Never mind. I think I don’t want to know.

[MtnClimber]

Trying to disarm the freedom loving gun owners who have a majority of guns being brought by the trans, gay and lez who don’t own guns and don’t even know how to fight is a suicide mission. I say “BRING IT”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

1962: We ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!
1964: We want to register ALL GUNS! and ban the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1968: We demand the registration of ALL FIREARMS, and a ban on foreign Saturday night specials and army surplus rifles (They got this ban).
1971: We demand a BAN on all SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS!
1976: We demand a ban on ALL HANDGUNS! Long guns will not be affected!
1981: The NRA is a RIFLE ORGANIZATION! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!
1986: We DEMAND a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns!
1993: They got a 10 year ban on new military style rifles.
2000: We demand a ban of single shot .50 cal rifles!

They are never satisfied, ever!

[ModelBreaker]

Eventually, the D’s will decide that they have to do a better job pretending that they aren’t against ordinary citizens having guns.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Blast you right-wingers! Why can’t you just meekly turn over your guns and let us rule over you?

[Vaquero]

Molon Labe......Bitch!

[SERKIT]

When will Hillary’s renewed 15 minutes of fame be over? We have a daily drip drip drip of political flatulence and Democrat diarrhea from this god-aweful book.

[TigersEye]

Please, DemoRats, listen to Hillary and run on gun control.

The DemoRats have been pushing for gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who own guns has increased.
• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)