Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Fewer guns mean fewer killings. We want a handgun ban. [View all]jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)better: We've been down this road of over-reaching with gun control, with the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.
The immediate result was that Democrats lost their control of the House that they'd had for forty years.
This is so much cowpoo baloney. To ascribe the loss of the house in 1994 to clintons assault weapon ban is misinformation.
US News, jan 2013: The vote for gun control mattered, but the vote for the tax increase and healthcare were more important," says Gary Jacobson, who has done a statistical analysis of what votes affected the outcome of the 1994 election.
You had a soft economy, and you had large Democratic majorities built in congressional districts that for years had gone to Republican presidential candidates," Klinkner says.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/17/gun-control-laws-werent-primary-reason-dems-lost-in-1994
better: Not adequately understanding something we vote to support can have catastrophic consequences even for those who did know better.
Indeed. Now practice what you preach, and retract your nonsense above, since right now you fit in with the propaganda charlatans below (NRA):
He adds that the groups like the NRA have perpetuated the narrative that gun laws were responsible for the 1994 loss to frighten future incumbents and warn them that gun control is a loosing issue.
"They have a few trophies and this is one of them," Jacobson says. "They don't have to win every time, but if they can show that a well-entrenched opponent got knocked off because the NRA opposed them, it makes a congressman living in an uncertain world nervous."
Provide a reputable source to back up your claims. Dems support gun control upwards of 80%.