[Atlas Sneezed]

IF you want your gun Rights, get rid of the democratic party.

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If only that were possible. I just wish our current President hadn't joined it.

And the old HHHumphrey Dems weren't so bad:

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn.
"Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.

(This quote is often shortened, or reprinted with slight errors. This is the full original quote from the hard copy of the magazine.)

[Billthedrill]

You bring up an excellent point. This wasn't always the partisan issue it has become, and that largely to the changes within the Democratic Party. It wasn't all that long ago that luminaries such as HHH and Scoop Jackson gave our side of the firearms issue at least a fair hearing within that platform. Now the party is split only between those who are overtly for confiscation and those who are covertly for it.

It is this deliberate polarization that has come to define political identities in this country, and is the reason that politics is becoming less colleaguial and more tribal. And it is costing the Democrats dearly, and they know it, but the idealogues who have taken nominal control of that party refuse to approach the matter any other way. And the well of trust has definitely been poisoned by our old buddy B.J. Billy, who posed as a shotgun-shootin' good ol' boy and when given the opportunity showed his true colors in the infamous AWB statement "I'm going to stretch this just as far as I can." Now, even if a Dem does try to come out as neutral on the issue publicly nobody trusts him (or her). Some legacy.

[Shooter 2.5]

If you want to move the country to the Right, get rid of the leftists.

Don't have this fantasy somehow voting for a bunch of communists will magically transform this country into Mom, Applepie and flag wavers.