30. This issue must be settled once and for allit has cost the Democratic party too many elections. It is time for it to be removed as a plank of this party's platform and for the party to abandon gun control as a national issue. Leave this issue to the states and bring rural and blue collar Dems back into the party.
Supreme Court to Hear D.C. Gun Ban Case: Will raise political issue in time for '08 election
Supreme Court to Hear D.C. Gun Ban Case: Will raise political issue in time for '08 election.
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They're largely correct over there too. If the USSC rules in favor of Heller, the Democrats will have a big monkey off their back and the Republicans may not be able to count on the large election-swaying progun vote.
Both Dems and GOP know it's true: The GOP took the House in '94 riding a pro-gun wave, and vanquished Gore in 2000 thanks entirely to the NRA. Gore lost his own home state to the NRA that year.
Also, pro-gun Democrats took back both the House and Senate by slim margins in the last election. They wouldn't have done that if they weren't NRA-endorsed. Did every see a running count of the anti-gun Dems and GOP representatives who went down in flames compared to the pro-gun candidates that won new seats?
I can tell you right away that I personally know several gun owners who only vote for the GOP on the pro-gun issue alone that if it were made irrelevant they would have no particular need for the Republican party.