Posted on 09/17/2017 5:12:43 PM PDT by 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.
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,
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“Give me your guns, so that I can take your souls.”
I find it bizarre, but some of the biggest Trump haters and Democrats I know are also gun owners - and not just a rifle or pistol either, but large collections.
I point this out them constantly: “you do realize that Democrats would love nothing more than to confiscate your guns?”
It seems to merely cause them confusion.
But I think this is why attacking the NRA simply doesn’t work.
[Let’s hope they do continue to double-down on gun control, it has always been a losing issue for them.]
RKBA is one of the few issues that can incredibly cross all ideological lines. I have been with otherwise raging liberals who are more staunch defenders of RKBA than your typical “Golfers with Guns” on the so-called right.
I’ve personally taken several girlfriends who were somewhat to the left to the shooting range where they proceeded to have a ball and asked all sorts of questions regarding gun ownership and moderated their fear and bias regarding guns.
They keep on talking about “blame”. They should be talking about who gets credit for taking down the Witch of Fix.
The NRA has been indispensable in preserving 2A. Yes,they have strayed in candidate endorsement at times but overall,they have saved our gun rights. GOA also does a great job.
Gun control groups outspend gun owner groups by 7.4 to 1.
They would just be lying. No Democrats are truly 2A advocates.
I HAPPENED!
Hilarious!
Can you say - "TONE DEAF!"
“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.
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indeed. the new owner’s trend definitely works against the Dems big time as long as they are stupid enough to include anti-gun planks in their platform.
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